Publications by and Related to CNI

CNI Executive Roundtable Reports

CNI Executive Roundtables bring together campus partners to discuss key digital information topics and their strategic implications. Recent reports:

• Lynch, Clifford, and Diane Goldenberg-Hart. Beyond the Pandemic: The Future of the Research Enterprise in Academic Year 2021-22 and Beyond. Report of a CNI Executive Roundtable held June 2021. Coalition for Networked Information, August 2021. https://doi.org/10.56561/MWRP9673
• Lynch, Clifford, and Diane Goldenberg-Hart. Post-Pandemic Strategic Planning: Challenges and Approaches. Report of a CNI Executive Roundtable held March 2021. Coalition for Networked Information, April 2021. https://doi.org/10.56561/OWHQ3493
• Lynch, Clifford, and Diane Goldenberg-Hart. International Tensions and “Science Nationalism” in a Networked World: Strategies and Implications. Report of a CNI Executive Roundtable held December 2020. Coalition for Networked Information, January 2021. https://doi.org/10.56561/FKFB1610
• Lynch, Clifford, and Diane Goldenberg-Hart. What Happens to the Continuity and Future of the Research Enterprise: Looking to 2020-2021 and Beyond. Report of a CNI Executive Roundtable held September 2020. Coalition for Networked Information, October 2020. https://www.doi.org/10.56561/QKSP3945
• Lynch, Clifford, and Diane Goldenberg-Hart. New Strategies for Acquiring Learning Materials. Report of a CNI Executive Roundtable held March 2020. Coalition for Networked Information, June 2020. https://doi.org/10.56561/QJWQ5034
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Reports of Events/Projects Sponsored or Co-sponsored by CNI

• Joan K. Lippincott, ed. “Networking Networks: A Festschrift Honoring Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information, 1997-2025.” Supplement to portal: Libraries and the Academy 25, no. 2 (July 2025).
• Waters, Donald J. Meeting the Climate Emergency: University Information Infrastructure for Researching Wicked Problems. Coalition for Networked Information, March 2025. https://doi.org/10.56561/LCOA2799
• The ARL/CNI 2035 Scenarios: AI-Influenced Futures in the Research Environment. Washington, DC, and West Chester, PA: Association of Research Libraries, Coalition for Networked Information, and Stratus Inc., May 2024. https://doi.org/10.29242/report.aiscenarios2024.
• Lippincott, Joan K. Directions in Digital Scholarship: Support for Digital, Data-Intensive, and Computational Research in Academic Libraries. Coalition for Networked Information, June 2023. https://doi.org/10.56561/ULHJ1168
• Calvert, Scout. Crest or Trough? How Research Libraries Used Emerging Technologies to Survive the Pandemic, So Far. Edited by Mary Lee Kennedy and Clifford Lynch. Association of Research Libraries, Coalition for Networked Information, and EDUCAUSE, October 2021.
• Scout Calvert. Future Themes and Forecasts for Research Libraries and Emerging Technologies. Edited by Mary Lee Kennedy, Clifford Lynch, and John O’Brien. Association of Research Libraries, Coalition for Networked Information, and EDUCAUSE, August 2020.
• Sarah Lippincott. Mapping the Current Landscape of Research Library Engagement with Emerging Technologies in Research and Learning. Edited by Mary Lee Kennedy, Clifford Lynch, and Scout Calvert. Association of Research Libraries, Born-Digital, Coalition for Networked Information, and EDUCAUSE, 2020.
• Diane Goldenberg-Hart. Libraries as Spaces for 21st Century Learners & Learning, Report of an LSC/CNI Roundtable held Dec. 2018 (Jan. 2019).
• Refreshing the Agenda & Priorities for Collaboration, Report of a CNI Meeting of Senior IT & Library Leaders held Sept. 6, 2018 (Dec. 2018).
• Diane Goldenberg-Hart. Planning a Digital Scholarship Center 2016, report of the CNI-ARL workshop held May 17-18, 2016 (Aug. 2016).
• Clifford A. Lynch. Report on the CNI Authentication and Authorization Survey 2016 (Aug. 2016).
  See also the survey used to collect data for this report.
  A version of this report also appeared in EDUCAUSE Review, “Report on the 2016 CNI Authentication and Authorization Survey,” Dec. 12, 2016.
• Joan K. Lippincott, Diane Goldenberg-Hart. Digital Scholarship Centers: Trends & Good Practice, report of the CNI workshop held April 2, 2014 (Dec. 2014).
• Diane Goldenberg-Hart. “Enhancing Graduate Education: A Fresh Look at Library Engagement,” ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions, no. 256 (Feb. 2008)
• Diane Goldenberg-Hart. “Libraries and Changing Research Practices: A Report of the ARL/CNI Forum on E-Research and Cyberinfrastructure,” ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions, no. 237 (Dec. 2004).

CNI Staff Contributed to these Selected Recent Reports & Articles

• Anderson, Janna and Lee Rainie. “As AI Spreads, Experts Predict the Best and Worst Changes in Digital Life by 2035.” Pew Research Center, June 21, 2023.  
• Anderson, Janna and Lee Rainie. “The Metaverse in 2040.” Pew Research Center, June 30, 2022.  
• American Library Association Joint Digital Content Working Group. The Need for Change: A Position on E-Lending by the Joint Digital Content Working Group. Dec. 2020.
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Lifecycle Decisions for Biomedical Data: The Challenge of Forecasting Costs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 2020.
• Louisa Dale et al. Jisc and CNI Invitational Roundtable 3 July 2018. Oxford University, UK. Feb. 2019.
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Open Source Software Policy Options for NASA Earth and Space Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 2018.
• Kirk M. Anne et al. Building Capacity for Digital Humanities: A Framework for Institutional Planning. ECAR Working Group Paper. Louisville, CO: ECAR. May 31, 2017.
• M. R. Muccie, J. Lucia et al. Across the Great Divide: Findings and Possibilities for Action from the 2016 Summit Meeting of Academic Libraries and University Presses with Administrative Relationships (P2L). White Paper. Dec. 2016.
• S. Brown, C. Keene et al. International Advances in Digital Scholarship. Jisc and CNI Meeting, July 2016, Oxford University, UK. Oct. 2016.
• Clifford A. Lynch et al. Curation. Big Data in the Campus Landscape (series). EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research Campus Cyberinfrastructure (ECAR-CCI) Working Group. Nov. 20, 2015.
• Scholarly Communication: The Journey Towards Openness. Conference report, Jisc/CNI meeting 2014: Opening Up Scholarly Communications. July 10-11, 2014, Bristol, UK. Oct. 2015.
• L. Johnson, S. Adams Becker et al. NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Library Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium (2015).
• L. Johnson, S. Adams Becker et al. NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Higher Education Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium. 2015.
• Basic Infrastructure Support. Big Data in the Campus Landscape (series). EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research Campus Cyberinfrastructure (ECAR-CCI) Working Group. Sept. 12, 2014.
• Developing a 21st Century Global Library for Mathematics Research. Timothy W. Cole, Ingrid Debauchies, Kathleen M. Carley, Judith L. Klavans, Yann LeCun, Michael Lesk, Clifford A. Lynch, Peter Olver, Jim Pitman and Zhihong Jeff Xia (Committee on planning a global library of the mathematical sciences). National Research Council, Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press (March 2014). Also available on [arXiv]
• L. Johnson, S. Adams Becker, V. Estrada, and A. Freeman. NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Library Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium (2014).
• Guy T. Almes, Curtis W. Hillegas, et al. Laying the Groundwork. Big Data in the Campus Landscape (series). EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research Campus Cyberinfrastructure (ECAR-CCI) Working Group, Sept. 17, 2014.
• Alma Swan. Transforming Opportunities in Scholarly Discourse, report of the Jisc/CNI workshop, held in Birmingham, UK, July 5-6, 2012 (Nov. 2012).
• Irene Hames. Report on the International Workshop on Contributorship and Scholarly Attribution, held Wednesday May 16, 2012, hosted by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University (Sept. 2012).
• EDUCAUSE. What’s Next for Campus Cyberinfrastructure? ACTI Responds to the NSF ACCI Reports. July 16, 2012.
• National Science Foundation.  Final Report of the NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure Task Force on Campus Bridging.March 2011.
• OCLC Record Use Policy Council. WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative approved by the OCLC Board of Trustees on June 14, 2010, effective Aug. 1, 2010.
• Laurence F. Johnson, Alan Levine, Rachel S. Smith, and Sonja Stone. 2010 Horizon Report. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium, 2010.
• Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation. Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long Term Access to Digital Information, February 2010.
• Educause Learning Initiative Advisory Board, “Opening Up Learning: From Spaces to Environments,” Educause Review 44:3 (May/June 2009), pp. 62-63.
• Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. Sustaining the Digital Investment: Issues and challenges of Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation, Dec. 2008.
• National Science Foundation Task Force on Cyberlearning. Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge, a 21st Century Agenda for the National Science Foundation, June 2008.
• Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. On The Record: Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, Jan. 2008.