REMINDER: Proposals Due for CNI Spring 2013
The submission deadline for CNI's spring 2013 membership meeting is fast approaching! The meeting will be held on April 4-5 in San Antonio, TX. Proposals for...
Futures of Academic Publishing Symposium
I am reposting a workshop announcement from Martin Halbert at University of North Texas. The program on "Futures of Academic Publishing" will feature a...
Report, CNI Roundtable: Institutional Strategies & Platforms for Scholarly Publishing
We have just posted a report on the Executive Roundtable that was held at the fall CNI meeting on Dec. 10, 2012. The topic was Institutional Strategies &...
Video: PressForward Project & Scholarly Communication on the Open Web (Cohen & Troyano)
The PressForward Project & Scholarly Communication on the Open Web, a project briefing presented at CNI's fall 2012 membership meeting by Dan Cohen and Joan...
Beyond the PDF2 Conference, March 2013
CNI's recent fall meeting featured a project briefing on Force 11 (http://www.cni.org/topics/scholarly-communication/force-11/), the group organizing this...
Video: JSTOR's Alumni Program
Extending Access to Scholarly Resources: JSTOR's Alumni Program, a presentation given at CNI's fall 2012 membership meeting in December is now available on...
New PCAST report on Networking & Information Tech R&D
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has issued a "progress report" on its 2010 review of US Federal programs and...
"2nd Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation
The second ANADP (Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation) conference has been scheduled for Barcelona, Spain on November 18-20, 2013. This is a...
Video: What is College For? Closing Plenary by AAU's Hunter Rawlings
What Is College For? The Future of Higher Education, the closing plenary from CNI's fall 2012 membership meeting by Association of American Universities...
"More detail on Research Data Management Implementation Workshop,
Following up on my earlier posting, here are more details on the upcoming Research Data Management Implementation Workshop scheduled for Washington DC on...
"Research Data Alliance Launch Meeting, Gothenburg, Sweeden, March
Many readers of CNI-announce are aware of the work of the newly-formed Research Data Alliance, which gave a presentation at our December 2012 CNI Member...
"Workshop on Reproducibility in Computational and Experimental
In December 2012 Brown University hosted a fascinating workshop (which I was unfortunately unable to attend) looking at issues in the reproducibility of...
"EDUCAUSE ACTI Report on Institutional Research Data Management
The Advanced Core Technologies Initiative (ACTI) at EDUCAUSE has just released a report from a working group that has been studying the development and...
Call for Project Briefing Proposals for CNI Spring '13 Meeting
The Spring 2013 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on April 4-5 (Thursday and Friday) at the Westin Riverwalk in San Antonio, TX. Registration materials...
Video: Cliff's CNI Plenary 'MOOCs, Mobility, and Changing Scholarly Practice'
MOOCs, Mobility, and Changing Scholarly Practice: CNI’s Perspective on 2012 and 2013, the opening plenary from CNI's fall 2012 membership meeting by director...
"NSF Research Data Management Implementation Workshop March 13-14,
I wanted to share the following announcement from Rajendra Bose about a workshop that I think will be of considerable interest to the CNI community. With...
Video: Massive Open Online Courses as Drivers for Change
Massive Open Online Courses as Drivers for Change by Lynne O'Brien of Duke University, a project briefing session presented at CNI's fall 2012 membership...
"National Academies Report on Knowledge Discovery in Open Network
The US National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) is clearing out its publication release backlog as a special holiday gift for us all....
Ithaka report on Changing Research Practices of Historians
This week, Ithaka released a report on a study funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities titled "Supporting the Changing Research Practices of...
National Academies Report on International Data Sharing Symposium
I wanted to share the following report announcement with the CNI community. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI (full disclosure: I am the current co-chair of the...
