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Interesting Reading: PCAST, European University Association, HPC Strategic Reserve and more
A collection of interesting reading (and viewing) for your consideration. The Biden administration has reconstituted the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (with a stellar series of appointments); the Council held its first … [Read more...]
October 13, 2021 Webinar on Privacy and Licensing for Library Content
I wanted to share the announcement for this free webinar. Lisa Janicke Hinchcliffe of UIUC has been doing a lot of work on reader privacy over the past few years with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and IMLS. On October 13, 2021 she's going to … [Read more...]
Reminder: Call for Proposals, CNI Fall ’21
As an additional reminder, we are now accepting proposals for project briefings to be presented during CNI’s Fall 2021 Membership Meeting. The virtual event will take place online Dec. 6-9; the in-person event will take place Dec. 13-14 in Washington, DC, … [Read more...]
“Crest or Trough?” Final Report on ARL/CNI/EDUCAUSE Emerging Technologies Study
Today, in partnership with the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, we published the final report from our study of the impact of emerging technologies on research libraries, titled "Crest or Trough? How Research Libraries Used Emerging … [Read more...]
Project JASPER — Preserving OA Journals
One of the fundamental problems with open access scholarly publishing has been ensuring the preservation of these materials. There are both structural (eg roles and responsibility questions) and funding challenges here which have long been familiar to … [Read more...]
National Monument Landscape Audit Report
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has been funding a major initiative to examine and transform monuments and memorials (see https://mellon.org/initiatives/monuments/ ) On September 29, 2021 they hosted a fascinating webinar (see … [Read more...]
Reminder: Call for Proposals, CNI Fall ’21
As a reminder, we are now accepting proposals for project briefings to be presented during CNI’s Fall 2021 Membership Meeting. The virtual event will take place online Dec. 6-9; the in-person event will take place Dec. 13-14 in Washington, DC, at the JW … [Read more...]
US Copyright Office Session on Machine Learning and Copyright, October 26, 2021
The US Copyright Office, in partnership with the Patent and Trademark Office, is convening (apparently both via Zoom and in person), a session on the interactions between copyright law and machine learning/artificial Intelligence. This is an interesting … [Read more...]
National Security Agency on Quantum Resistant Cryptography
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has produced a rather interesting PDF FAQ on post-quantum cryptography, which can be found at https://media.defense.gov/2021/Aug/04/2002821837/-1/-1/1/Quantum_FAQs_20210804.PDF I'm sorry for not catching this and … [Read more...]
Study of COVID-19 impact on academic publishing patterns
Here's an interesting preprint (I am somewhat unclear where it stands in the publication process and if it's been through peer review, though it appears like it may come out in a UK Royal Society venue) which looks at publication patterns by discipline … [Read more...]
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