I want to bring three recent publications of potential interest to the attention of CNI-announce readers. The first is a document issued by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in August 2007 titled "Leadership Under Challenge: Information Technology R&D in a Competitive World", which is a look at the Federal networking and Information Technology R&D Program in a broad context. It includes PCAST's reccomendations for furding priorities in networking and information technology research and development. You can find this report online at

The second is a special issue of the CODATA Data Sciences Journal edited by Paul Uhlir of the U.S. National Academies dealing with open data issues. Here's the summary of the issue that Paul sent out:

This special volume of the CODATA Data Science Journal, available at: http://dsj.codataweb.org/special-open-data.html, examines several govern- mental data policy initiatives, as well as various data policy issues and developments. Part One provides overviews of four significant recent data policies at the intergovernmental and national levels:

1. OECD Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public Funding Dirk Pilat, OECD, and Yukiko Fukasaku, Innovmond, FRANCE

2. Database Protection in Europe—Recent Developments and a Modest Proposal Robert Clark, School of Law, University College Dublin, IRELAND

3. Open Access to Scientific Data: Promoting Science and Innovation Guan-Hua Xu, Ministry of Science and Technology, CHINA

4. Canadian National Consultation on Access to Scientific Research Data Michel Sabourin, University of Montreal, and Bernard Dumouchel, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, National Research Council, CANADA

The articles in Part Two present different data policy issues and developments:

5. Open Data for Global Science Paul F. Uhlir, National Research Council, USA, and Peter Schröder, Data Archiving and Networked Services, THE NETHERLANDS

6. Biomedical Data Sharing, Security and Standards Belinda Seto and James Luo, National Institutes of Health, USA

7. Big Opportunities in Access to “Small Science” Data Harlan Onsrud and James Campbell, University of Maine, USA

8. Possible Downsides to Data Sharing in the Research Commons: Assets and Liabilities, Opportunities and Risks Peter Schröder, Data Archiving and Networked Services, THE NETHERLANDS

Finally, while I don't normally mention individual issues of D-Lib, the most recent issue (September/October 2007) contains a series of studies of institutional repository deployment in the United States (including work that updates a study that Joan Lippincott and I published in D-Lib several years ago), as well as some very helpful material on institutional implications of e-science. Both of these will be of interest to many CNI-announce readers, I think. You can find the latest issue at:

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI