CNI News

Alison Head, founder and director of Project Information Literacy (PIL) and also a plenary speaker at the CNI Spring 2017 meeting, has announced the availability of the latest report from the project: “How Students Engage with News: Five Takeaways for … [Read more...]

You’re invited to participate in this survey by the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)! —Joan Lippincott, CNI ——————————————— The ELI is pleased to announce the release of the 2019 Key Issues survey. As always, we invite everyone associated with the … [Read more...]

In March 2018 MIT hosted a series of meetings (one of which I was fortunate to be able to participate in) to develop an ambitious research agenda for scholarly communications. I want to stress the focus here was on research questions that could help to … [Read more...]

Dates and location for Open Repositories 2020 have been set – details below. CNI has been a supporter of the OR events for many years. ********************************* Subject: Save the Date for Open Repositories 2020, 1-4 June in Stellenbosch, SA Save … [Read more...]

I wanted to share the following call for applications with the CNI-announce community, which I know includes many non-profit infrastructure providers for open science and open access that are struggling with sustainability issues. Clifford … [Read more...]

Last week an important and welcome report on best practices in software preservation was released. This work has been in progress for some time and is an important step in defining and clarifying good community practice in this often confusing area, … [Read more...]

You have doubtless seen press coverage of the new US, Mexico and Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) that is intended to replace the existing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). There are some significant changes in the intellectual property provisions … [Read more...]

The submission deadline for CNI's fall 2018 membership meeting is fast approaching! The meeting will be held on December 10-11 in Washington, DC.  Proposals for project briefings are due no later than this Friday, October 5. A limited number of proposals … [Read more...]

Over the past year I've had the opportunity to participate in the work of a National Academies Committee advising NASA Earth and Space Sciences on Open Source policies and strategies for their scientific work. The report from this work was released a few … [Read more...]

Many of you will be interested in viewing the presentations (slides) from the Designing Libraries Conference held at the University of Calgary on September 16-18, 2018. They are now available linked to the conference sessions, including the preconferences, … [Read more...]