CNI News

Elsevier is hosting a half-day symposium on October 7, 2020 looking at issues around access management to digital resources and services, which has become particularly important as many institutions have moved extensively to remote instruction models … [Read more...]

In the summer of 2018, LIBER issued  its Open Science Roadmap (see https://libereurope.eu/blog/2018/07/03/liber-launches-open-science-roadmap/), which received extensive discussion, particularly within the European research library community. OCLC and … [Read more...]

A great deal has been written about the security issues, national security and defense implications, and similar matters related to 5G wireless networks in the last year or so, partially driven by the issues around proposed bans of Huawei by the Trump … [Read more...]

Based on the current public health situation, it’s clear that we must reluctantly move the December 2020 CNI Member Meeting virtual. I wish we could meet in person, but this is not going to be feasible, and I look forward to the time when can gather in … [Read more...]

In October 2019 I shared a pointer to an interim report from our colleagues at JISC in the UK had released dealing with what they called "Research 4.0" -- basically the way in which research practices would be transformed by a complex of emerging … [Read more...]

I’m looking forward to keynoting this conference on September 23. If your institution has an interest in ETDs (electronic theses and dissertations), this virtual conference will provide lots of good information. —Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive … [Read more...]

On Wednesday, September 9, 2020, the US House Committee on Science, Space and Technology subcommittee on Research and Technology held a two-hour video hearing on the impact of COVID-19 on University Research. The recording is available for viewing … [Read more...]

Apologies for the short notice, I just found out about this today, but I wanted to share this announcement as I know that there are people in the CNI community who will be interested in participating. Again, I don't know if the material will be recorded … [Read more...]

ExLibris commissioned a consultancy called Alterline to survey senior researchers and research administrators in the US, UK and Australia on priorities and challenges in supporting the research enterprise. The report from this work can be downloaded … [Read more...]

There's a lot of activity in around digitized biological and natural history collections in the next few weeks, which continues a series of NSF-funded community initiatives which go back a number of years to initiatives from the Office of Science and … [Read more...]