I'm delighted that we are co-sponsoring an OCLC Research Workshop on the Evolving Scholarly Record (ESR) in conjunction with the Fall CNI Membership Meeting. The workshop will take place all day on Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at George Washington University. This is a topic of central importance, and one that is very much on CNI's agenda; it is intimately connected with our efforts to understand the changing shape of the scholarly record, and how this connects to measuring progress and establishing priorities in digital preservation, for example, and also to discussions about how to scope and evaluate scholarly contributions in the digital environment. I hope that many participants at our fall meeting can take advantage of this workshop; I would also note that OCLC intends this as one of a series of events exploring these questions, and these workshops will continue through early 2015 (I will share these announcements on CNI-announce as the details are available).

Below are details on the workshop.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

We are pleased to announce this second workshop in a series on the Evolving Scholarly Record.

Co-sponsored by OCLC Research, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and the George Washington University Libraries, this workshop builds on the framework presented in the OCLC Research report, The Evolving Scholarly Record. Join us to explore the responsibilities of research libraries, data archives, and other stewards of research output-and identify new alliances that should be forged to create a reliable ecosystem for preserving the scholarly record and making it accessible.

OCLC Research Library Partners, CNI attendees, and other interested community members with a mission for collecting, making available, and preserving the scholarly record are invited to attend the workshop. Seating is limited so register now to secure your spot at this free event. This is the second in a series of Evolving Scholarly Record workshops. The first was held in Amsterdam on 10 June 2014. See the Evolving Scholarly Record workshop page for details; a more details agenda will be forthcoming shortly.

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