If you are doing some innovative work in the area of electronic theses and dissertations, please consider submitting a proposal for this conference. I will be a keynote speaker on the program. --Joan Lippincott

ETD 2012: 15th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations Lima, Peru, September 12, 13 and 14

First Announcement

Call for Papers, Presentations, Posters and Workshops

I just learned about this very interesting symposium exploring the history and contributions of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program (NITRD). Here is the announcement and agenda, as well as some background on NITRD for those not familiar with it.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The International Council for Science (ICSU) recently issued the first report from its Foresight Analysis project, a set of four scenarios that look at the future of the international scientific research enterprise in 2030. More information and a pointer to the report is at

Some CNI-announce readers will recall a series of scenarios that the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) did in late 2010 looking at the future of the research enterprise in 2030 (see http://www.arl.org/rtl/plan/scenarios/usersguide/index.shtml for more information on these scenarios).

As far as I know these efforts developed independently, and, while approached from rather different viewpoints, it's interesting to see the connections among the scenarios developed by the two projects.

In the latest CNI Conversations podcast (http://wp.me/p1LncT-22Z), CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch speaks with David Lewis, Dean of Libraries, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) about new developments in electronic textbooks and the search for alternative economic models.

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Diane Goldenberg-Hart Communications Coordinator Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 202-296-5098 202-872-0884 (Fax) diane@cni.org www.cni.org

Preservation Status of e-Resources: A Potential Crisis in Electronic Journal Preservation, a project briefing session presented at CNI's fall 2011 membership meeting by Oya Y. Rieger, Associate University Librarian for Digital Scholarship Services at Cornell University, and Robert Wolven, Associate University Librarian for Bibliographic Services and Collection Development at Columbia University, is now available on CNI's two video channels:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/sjAaSRJILd0 Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/35776220

Look for more announcements soon on videos of other sessions from the fall 2011. To see all videos available from CNI, visit CNI's video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni).

Last year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued two requests for information, one dealing with public access to articles describing the results of federally funded research, and the other wiht public access to data produced as part of federally funded research. Both of these calls for input (which I shared with the CNI-announce list) closed on January 12, 2012.

The responses to these requests for information have now been posted. There were some 117 dealing with public access to data, and 375 dealing with scholarly publications. I submitted responses to both calls on behalf of the Coalition, and these are included.

The announcement is here:

CNI is an "endorser" of this conference, which will highlight developments in mobile technologies, services, and libraries.

Joan Lippincott

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Fourth International m-libraries Conference

"From margin to mainstream: mobile technologies transforming lives and libraries"

2nd Call for Papers

Web Science Conference 2012, Evanston, Chicago, IL

Web Science embraces the study of the Web as a vast information network of people and communities. It also includes the study of people and communities using the digital records of user activity mediated by the Web. An understanding of human behavior and social interaction can contribute to our understanding of the Web, and data obtained from the Web can contribute to our understanding of human behavior and social interaction. Accordingly, Web Science involves analysis and design of Web architecture and applications, as well as studies of the people, organizations, and policies that shape and are shaped by the Web.

To address these diverse goals, the Web Science conference is inherently interdisciplinary, integrating computer and information sciences, communication, linguistics, sociology, psychology, economics, law, political science, and other disciplines. This conference is unique in the manner in which it brings these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue, and we invite papers from all the above disciplines, as well as those that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries.

The UK Research Information Network (RIN) has released "Collaborative yet Independent: Information Practices in the Physical Sciences", the third in its series of reports covering information practices in scholarly disciplines (earlier reports have covered life sciences and humanities). The report is available at

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The U.S National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) is having its next meeting on January 31-February 1, 2012 in Washington DC. The great majority of the meeting is open (with pre-registration) and will be of interest to those following work on scientific data policy. You can find the agenda for the meeting at:

<>http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_066480

On a personal note, with this meeting, a number of Board members have retired and new ones have been added; I have joined the Board as co-chair. You can find a list of the Board members linked to the page above. I'm honored to have the opportunity to do this, and to be able to help to advance the very valuable work that the Board has been doing.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

In the latest CNI Conversations podcast (http://www.cni.org/conversations/) CNI Director Clifford Lynch provides a round-up of reports and events related to large datasets, identity, and new digital scholarship. Associate Director Joan Lippincott discusses digital humanities, teaching and learning.

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Diane Goldenberg-Hart Communications Coordinator Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 202-296-5098 202-872-0884 (Fax) diane@cni.org www.cni.org

Five New Paradigms for Science and Academia and an Introduction to DataONE, the closing plenary from CNI's fall 2011 membership meeting by William Michener, professor & director of e-Science Initiatives for University Libraries, University of New Mexico, is now available on CNI's two video channels:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/ebLNHWAQ2qs Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/34805133

Look for more announcements soon on videos of other sessions from the fall 2011. To see all videos available from CNI, visit CNI's video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni).

This year at the American Library Association (ALA) midwinter conference in Dallas, TX, CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott will participate in the discussion forum Let's Talk Trends: A Discussion of Higher Education Trends That Influence Academic Library Services & Systems

When: Sunday, January 22, 4:00-5:30pm. Where: Sheraton Dallas Hotel, Lone Star Ballroom A1 (NOTE: location may be different than what appears in printed program, as the room assignment was recently changed)

More information is available online at http://alamw12.scheduler.ala.org/node/770.

The Spring 2012 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on April 2-3 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, MD. Registration materials will be sent by the end of this month to designated member representatives. Please note that the meeting and hotel registration deadline is Friday, March 5. For more information, see the meeting website:

Spring 2012

CNI Spring 2012 Membership Meeting April 2-3, 2012 Baltimore, MD Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel Representatives from CNI member organizations gather twice annually for membership meetings. The meeting…

We are now accepting proposals for project briefings, breakout sessions (typically one hour) which focus on a specific institutional project related to networked information or a discussion of a hot topic. A limited number of project briefings are accepted. Proposals may be submitted via a Web form available at

Submit a Proposal

CNI Spring 2010 Membership Meeting April 12-13, 2010 Baltimore, MD Baltimore Waterfront Marriott   Project Briefing Proposals Proposals are no longer being accepted for this meeting Proposal s…

Big Data Becomes Fashionable, Mobile Devices Reshape the Information Ecology: CNI’s View on 2011 and 2012, the opening plenary from CNI's fall 2011 membership meeting by director Clifford Lynch, is now available on CNI's two video channels:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/DnVGzaj4dPQ Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/34713112

In this talk, Clifford looks back on the events of 2011, and he discusses CNI's program for the coming year.

Look for more announcements soon on videos of other sessions from the fall 2011 CNI meeting, including William Michener's closing plenary talk Five New Paradigms for Science and Academia and an Introduction to DataONE

CNI is an official endorser of this conference.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2012) June 10–14, 2012 Washington, DC, USA

Hosted by The George Washington University and The Library of Congress

CNI Director Cliff Lynch discusses how the consumerization of information technology is affecting library and teaching organizations in this new video offering from EDUCAUSE, currently featured on CNI's home page, www.cni.org. The video is also available from CNI's Vimeo channel, vimeo.com/channesl/cni.

Diane Goldenberg-Hart Communications Coordinator Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 202-296-5098 202-872-0884 (Fax) diane@cni.org www.cni.org

In their contribution to the New Years festivities, I've just recieved an announcement from NSF that the National Science Board has now issued a report (dated December 14, 2011) from their Task Force on Data Policies titiled "Digital Research Data Sharing and Management" and is calling for comments, with a due date of January 10, 2012.

The call for comments is here

News | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation

and it includes (at least as of December 31, 2011) a bad pointer ot the report; changing this to

The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley is hosting a major symposium on March 12-13 to explore paths foward on the orphan works problem, particularly in light of the apparent failure of the Google Books Settlement and recent developments in Europe. Full details on the symposium and a link to registration can be found at

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

A few weeks ago I shared information on two calls from the US Office of Science and Technology Policy one for public comment on issues related to public access to articles produced as part of federally funded research, and the other dealing with a range of policy issues surrounding data produced as as part of federally funded research. Both had early January 2012 deadlines.

I know from conversations at the CNI fall membership meeting and other venues over the past few weeks that many CNI member institutions and many individuals that are part of the CNI community have a keen interest in one or both of these calls for comment.

I just learned that the deadline for comments has been somewhat extended, allowing those interested more time to respond to these important calls. Here is the full announcement: