CNI News

There's an interesting report that's come out recently, titled National Strategic Overview for Research and Development Infrastructure, authored by a subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council. I would note that this is very much a … [Read more...]

CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch will be speaking at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference on Oct. 27th in Philadelphia to report on a series of CNI Executive Roundtables with members tracking how the research enterprise has been impacted and reshaped as a … [Read more...]

Conferences (and related events such as institutional colloquia) have been a key part of scholarly knowledge diffusion for centuries. Prior to the pandemic, practices in these areas have seemed to be quite stable; the pandemic of course forced abrupt and … [Read more...]

The OECD is running a very interesting online workshop (free but registration required) looking at trends in scientific productivity and how the greater adoption of AI technologies might reshape these trends. … [Read more...]

The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) is now accepting proposals for the 2022 Library Publishing Forum. CNI is pleased to serve as a Strategic Affiliate of the sponsoring organization, the Library Publishing Coalition. More information is available below … [Read 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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]