PEAK (Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge) is a pricing experiment designed and run by the University of Michigan in cooperation with Elsevier Science. PEAK is an 18-month research and service effort which will end in August 1999. Michigan is serving as the host to provide access to 1200 Elsevier journals to 12 institutions in a controlled field experiment on pricing and product models. The experiment will evaluate the effects of the various pricing alternatives and the implications for longer-term pricing strategies. This session will provide an update on PEAK from service and research perspectives.

An increasing number of institutions today are facing the challenge of managing access to electronic resources. As an outgrowth of earlier work on access management, the Digital Library Federation (DLF) has defined a project to explore the viability of using digital certificates in an orderly way to provide access. Through the collaboration of Columbia University, the California Digital Library, JSTOR and OCLC, a digital certificate (X.509) protocol has been defined. Joan Gargano of the University of California and David Millman of Columbia University will present the protocol architecture and a report on progress-to-date and will lead a discussion on the implications of the prototype and next steps. This session provides a forum for feedback on the use of digital certificates as well as an opportunity to identify additional participants for further development.

Miami University is leading a consortium of state universites, the USGS EROS Data Center, the NASA Glenn Research Center, OhioLINK, and NREN whose mission is to promote the low-cost access and distribution of US Government civilian satellite data for public use. Our goals are:

1. Create a prototype of a national public access system for geospatial data from the US Government.
2. Promote the use of satellite and geospatial data in education.
3. Facilitate the use of satellite data to monitor a wide variety of environmental issues, such as flood risk, crop health, urban sprawl, and loss of wetlands.
4. Facilitate cooperation between education, and state and local governments in remote sensing and digital mapping through cost sharing.
5. Facilitate research and development in the applications of satellite data.
6. Establish "virtual" centers for satellite and geospatial data synthesis and dissemination.
7. Establish a high-speed network to provide satellite data to the public, educators, scientists, and community leaders in Ohio and the nation.
8. Leverage existing state and federal resources.

We will report on activities and accomplishments to date and share our preparations in anticipation of the launch of the LandSat-7 satellite.

The goal of the Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure (I2-DSI) is to provide academic end-users with high performance access to advanced applications. The I2-DSI architecture uses large storage servers deployed throughout the world's research networks to replicate content and services. Each end-user then achieves high performance by accessing a local replica. At a workshop held in early March at UNC Chapel Hill, application groups described how their projects can make use of distributed storage. This update will describe the current state of I2-DSI development and deployment, emerging international collaborations, and will review the applications presented at the recent workshop.

How can institutions of higher education best exploit the potential for networked information to transform and improve processes of teaching, learning, and research? Over the past decade, libraries and information technology services on many campuses have been restructured and reorganized as a result of both fierce economic pressures and opportunities for change offered by networked digital information. Yet, this incremental, often ad-hoc, blurring of traditional roles and functions through reorganization and realignment -- while preserving much that has been successful in the traditional organization -- may not provide a sufficiently firm foundation for the future. As the network rapidly renders certain functions and services of libraries and computer centers indistinguishable from one another, and as the means of research, scholarly communication and instruction are transformed, how can institutions ensure that wise investments are made and resources wisely managed?

This panel explores the question of leadership for twenty-first century information resources and services. What are the issues that the next decade's leaders must address? What are the qualities of mind and core competencies that will lead to success? Are there contemporary case studies that can elucidate the future, or are we facing a discontinuous future? How can we ensure that we have the leaders we need to guide us are available when we need them? The Council on Library and Information Resources is sponsoring the Frye Leadership Institute beginning in the summer of 2000. The curriculum of the Institute is being developed through broad consultation among academic leaders, librarians, and Information Technologists. This presentation provides perspectives on the issues of leadership from the perspective of library and information technology leaders and describes the planning process for the Frye Leadership Institute. It is hoped that this CNI briefing can solicit ideas about the shape of the Frye Institute curriculum from the attendees.

Two major publishers of primary STM material will report on the status of implementing DOI and applications at their firms. Topics will include: decisions a publisher must make about how to implement DOI; valuable applications enabled by DOI; processes to support DOI-enabled applications; questions that remain; future applications; syntax; metadata; the International DOI Foundation; the DOI System.

In addition, the director of the International DOI Foundation will review the past months activities on the DOI and work done on providing an enabling infrastructure for applications such as reference linking between electronic documents.

What do partners gain from collaboration? How does a relationship originate? What did parties expect from a partnership? What else results from a partnership? Questions such as these will be taken up in this session, which sketches the course of half - a - dozen partner relationships involving USC colleges, researchers, and campus information support units with entities beyond the University.

The current status of the partner alliances will be described, but the session will focus on the history of the relationships and the lessons to be learned from them. The types of arrangements featured will vary to include a) vendor gifts/deep discounts, b) co-developments, c) early deployments for promotional benefits, and d) multi-agency projects. Targeted areas of cooperation will include development of digital assets, technological tools for learning, administrative process innovations, and high-speed Internet connections ( intra-university and statewide).

Attention will be paid to the value each party gains in the relationship and the imapct of the relationship on the University. Improvements in the generation, formalization, monitoring and execution of a collaborative effort, will be discussed in order to answer how we could capitalize on collaboration better the next time.

Carnegie Mellon University's Universal Library Project, steered by faculty from the School of Computer Science and the University Libraries, will be briefly described. Dr. St. Clair will discuss one initiative--the creation of an Automated Reference Assistant--to serve students who are seeking information from outside of library facilities. Dr. Ockerbloom will describe his research in migrating files from one platform to another. This work has implications for libraries interested in making a commitment to the long term maintenance of digital resources.