CNI News

Jennifer Fredrick and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg of Ithaka S+R have released the first survey (at least that i know about) of library leaders views since the pandemic started; this builds on a series of such surveys that Ithaka has been doing in recent … [Read more...]

While I've previously shared the excellent work that Ithaka S+R published in late October 2020 on the impacts of COVID-19 on the research enterprise (see https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/the-impacts-of-covid-19-on-the-research-enterprise/ ), sponsored by … [Read more...]

Oya Rieger and Roger Schonfeld of Ithaka S+R released a ground-breaking report titled "The Senior Research Officer: Experience, Role, Organizational Structure, Strategic Directions and Challenges" this morning. This study is based primarily on interviews … [Read more...]

I've been remiss in not sharing the announcement that Ithaka S+R last week issued a really valuable report exploring the range of research data management services offerings in US higher education institutions of different types. … [Read more...]

Karen Smith-Yoshimura, who so many in our community know from her work at the Research Libraries Group and then at OCLC, has announced she is retiring at the end of this month. Karen has done amazing things during her career. I'm particularly grateful … [Read more...]

In the last few days (it's getting really hard to keep up with everything that seems to be happening suddenly!) Ithaka S+R has issued two really interesting and useful reports. The first is a survey of art museum directors, completed just before the … [Read more...]

NIST has released a preliminary draft of its work on a Research Data Framework. This is important, as it will establish a set of best practices and an analytic framework for work in this area, and I would urge those interested in research data management … [Read more...]

The Computing Research Association (see www.cra.org) has recently released a series of clear, brief and fairly non-technical white papers on key areas in computer science. I have not read all of these (yet) but the ones that I have read are excellent, and … [Read more...]

Over the last couple of years, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has been systematically articulating a vision of a new generation of highly distributed but networked repositories and the role that these repositories and services … [Read more...]

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has just launched season two of a podcast series called "Material Memory" addressing the nexus of cultural memory and the climate change crisis, which is an area that I've also been thinking about a … [Read more...]