CNI News

Washington, DC — Doctoral student Jen Liu and master’s student Jacob (Jake) Tompkins are the 2020 recipients of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in library and information sciences. The fellowship was established to honor the memory of … [Read more...]

The Library of Congress Labs has just released a really excellent report on the prospects for machine learning in libraries prepared by Professor Ryan Cordell of Northeastern University. Here's a pointer to the LC Labs post announcing the report and … [Read more...]

I just found out about a report that came out last month from the American Institute of Physics looking at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the physical sciences. This is another valuable data point in understanding what's happening to the research … [Read more...]

During the Spring CNI Virtual Member meeting in April-May 2020,  I was frequently struck by the numerous ways in which roughly thirty years of sustained, strategic investment by research libraries, and research universities more broadly (often in … [Read more...]

Here's a very useful blog post that offers some survey data on how the COVID-19 shutdowns impacted faculty, based on work that Ithaka S+R did in May-June, following on some of the questions we examined in CNI's April Executive Roundtables on Research … [Read more...]

I’m very pleased to share this call for nominations for the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) 2020 Innovation Awards - more information about the program is available at https://ndsa.org/groups/innovation-awards/. CNI is an NDSA strategic … [Read more...]

Recently I had the opportunity to catch up with colleagues from Protocols.io. I have followed the wonderful work that they have been doing for the last few years in providing a mechanism to document, share and manage experimental protocols, and I am sure … [Read more...]

A few weeks ago, I shared information about the availability of the report "Life Cycle Decisions for Biomedical Data: The Challenge of Forecasting Costs, produced by a National Academies Committee that I had the pleasure of participating in. Members of the … [Read more...]

Videos are now available of Clifford Lynch’s webinar presentations discussing the Executive Roundtables from CNI’s Spring 2020 Virtual Meeting: What Happens to the Continuity and Future of the Research Enterprise? and New Strategies for Acquiring Learning … [Read more...]

Over the past year or so I have been fortunate to serve on the National Academies Committee on Forecasting Costs for Preserving, Archiving and Promoting Access to Biomedical Data. You can find more details about this work … [Read more...]