I recently received an announcement from the UK Royal Society indicating that in celebration of Open Access week they were opening their entire journal archive for free access till the end of the society's 350th anniversary year, 30 November 2010. This is … [Read more...]
cyberinfrastructure
September 2010
Audio Recording [mp3 47:50 min.] September 14, 2010 In the September 2010 CNI Conversations, Executive Director Clifford Lynch discusses the Dear Colleague Letter from the National Science Foundation (NSF) requesting comments regarding big challenges and … [Read more...]
E-science and Research Libraries Report from ARL
The Association of Research Libraries has issued an excellent survey of programs that major research libraries in the United States and Canada are putting in place to meet the demands of E-science. I've reproduced the announcement below. This document … [Read more...]
Summary of NRC Workshop on Large Scale Data Integration
On August 19-20, 2009, the US National Research Council hosted a workshop on Large Scale Data Integration in the Sciences. This workshop, chaired by Professor Michael Stonebraker of MIT, looked at barriers and opportunities in integrating and reusing … [Read more...]
Astroinformatics 2010
From our colleague George Djorgoviski at Caltech, an very interesting announcement for a conference focused on cyberinfrastructure and data management strategies in Astronomy and broader implications for scientific practice and communication. Clifford … [Read more...]