CFPs & Conferences

CFPapers: International Digital Curation Conference 19 April, 2021

The call for papers for the 16th International Digital Curation Conference, IDCC21, is now available. As in previous years, IDCC is organised by the Digital Curation Centre with the support of the Coalition for Network Information. We’re inviting submissions on the broad theme of “Data Quality and Data Limitations – working towards equality through data […]

Announcements

Announcement: “Data Science Coast to Coast” webinars

There was an exciting announcement today about a fall series of webinars that are being scheduled among a group of the major Data Science institutes at key research institutes — UC Berkeley, University of Michigan, Stanford, Rice University, University of Washington and NYU. Read full post here.

Announcements

Announcement: CNI Digital Scholarship Planning Webinar Series

CNI’s webinar series on Digital Scholarship Planning, which will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-2 PM Eastern from September 10, 2020 until October 13, 2020, has a full roster of speakers who will provide both big picture understanding of trends as well as practical advice. The series is intended for those in the beginning of […]

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Report: Report from Spring 2020 Executive Roundtable on Acquiring Instructional Materials

On March 30-31, 2020 as part of the CNI Spring virtual Member Meeting, we held two convenings of an Executive Roundtable on strategies for acquiring instructional materials; this included both open educational resources and “inclusive access” type arrangements. It also discussed experiences in providing instructional materials support for the sudden transition to remote instruction that […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: CNI Spring Meeting

From the Call: Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented at CNI’s Spring 2018 Membership Meeting on April 12-13 in San Diego, CA, at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter. Please note that this year’s spring meeting will fall on THURSDAY & FRIDAY. Project briefings are 30-minute, 45-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a discussion of a […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: 7th Annual Open Access Symposium at UNT

We are pleased to issue the call for proposals for the 7th annual Open Access Symposium at UNT, the premier annual conference regarding Open Access, attracting speakers and attendees from around the world.  The conference will be held on the main campus of the UNT system in Denton, Texas, just north of Dallas.   This year we invite both […]

News, Reports

Report: Reviewing First Decade of CLIR Postdoctorial Fellowships

From the report: It’s rare to see in-depth historical and critical review of important programs within our community, and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Fellowships have certainly been an extremely important innovation, so I’m delighted to share the announcement of this recent study (reproduced below). The CLIR fellows have been ongoing guests […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective

In this presentation from CNI’s spring 2015 meeting, Jon Cawthorne (West Virginia), Vivian Lewis (McMaster) and Lisa Spiro (Rice) present key results from a pilot global benchmarking study on digital scholarship expertise. The project involved visiting leading digital humanities and digital social science organizations in several countries and conducting interviews with research staff, faculty, graduate students, and […]