Institutional Repositories (IR), Cyberinfrastructure, and Developments in Scholarly Communications, with Clifford Lynch

Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), will address changing practices of research and scholarship ("e-research"), now being supported by national and institutional investments in cyberinfrastructure.

Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last ten as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information.

He received the American Society for Information Science & Technology 2008 Award of Merit, the Society's highest honor, and he currently serves on the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, Microsoft's Technical Computing Science Advisory Board, the board of the New Media Consortium, and the Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits.