CNI News

As part of its ongoing series of reports on the future of the internet, the Pew Research Center has recently released a report titled "The Metaverse in 2040". As is usual with this series, the Pew researchers invited a wide range of people (disclosure: … [Read more...]

I'm delighted to share this call for participation with the CNI community. CNI has been tracking the work of the Sourcery program since it's inception, and has had several presentations on this important work during the pandemic (see our website for video … [Read more...]

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just reached a milestone in its effort to establish a set of quantum resistant cryptographic algorithm standards. … [Read more...]

There's a report of last year's summit hosted by Brown and Emory on digital publications which has recently been released. See https://multimodal-digital-monographs.pubpub.org/ This is a really interesting look at possible futures for the scholarly … [Read more...]

Peter Brantley and his collaborators have announced a new conference dealing with next-generation publishing, building on the work of meetings like the Books in Browsers series. For details, see https://www.pagebreakconf.com Clifford Lynch Director, … [Read more...]

CNI-ANNOUNCE readers may remember a December 2021 Virtual Meeting presentation describing the work that Jisc had been advancing to develop a new platform for providing access to the primary research record, complementing the existing journal publication … [Read more...]

The OECD has released a useful report on integrity and security in the global research ecosystem; this connects to several recent developments in science nationalism. My thanks to the amazing Gary Price for the heads-up on this (I don't know how he finds … [Read more...]

Educopia is hosting a very interesting virtual symposium (free registration) July 11-12, 2022 (10AM-2PM EDT). This will explore issues around sharing, curating and sustaining research data and related infrastructure. For details … [Read more...]

After a hiatus due to the pandemic, we are delighted to announce the next Designing Libraries conference, to take place at Temple University in Philadelphia. You will have the opportunity to visit the beautiful Charles Library, benefit from the expertise … [Read more...]

Today, Ithaka S+R issued a very informative report on academic library acquisition strategies for video and audio materials. This has been a slowly developing crisis prior to the pandemic, and emerged as a massive challenge in supporting the move to online … [Read more...]