From: "Cliff Lynch cliff@cni.org" Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:53:00 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [73.193.181.76] (account clifford@cni.org HELO [192.168.1.17]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.2.7) with ESMTPSA id 37527197 for cni-announce@cni.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:24:30 -0500 X-Original-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:24:30 -0500 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org X-Original-Message-ID: <20210114222430130669.46288ecc@cni.org> Subject: Report on Economic Analyses of Federal Scientific Collections MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: GyazMail version 1.6.3 I'm just now catching up on a report issued by a federal cross-agency working group titled "Economic Analyses of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods for Documenting Costs and Benefits" in late November 2020. This may be valuable for stewards of other collections beyond federally-supported ones. Some background on the development of the report , and a video introducing the report, are at: https://iwgsc.nal.usda.gov/economic-analyses-federal-scientific-collections and the report can be downloaded at https://smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/report/Economic_Analyses_of_Federal_Scientific_Collections_Methods_for_Documenting_Costs_and_Benefits/13241612/1 Clifford Lynch Director, CNI