Return-Path: Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:20:03 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [66.135.132.153] ([66.135.132.153] verified) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.8) with ESMTPS id 15178666 for cni-announce@cni.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:33:53 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:36:20 -0700 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch Subject: EDUCAUSE/ECAR Study on IT Engagement in Research Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-1053845464==_ma============" --============_-1053845464==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" ECAR, the subscription research program within EDUCAUSE, has issued a major report on IT and Research Computing: IT Engagement in Research: A Baseline Study Harvey Blustain, Act IV Consulting, Inc., with Sandra Braman, ECAR and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Richard N. Katz, ECAR; and Gail Salaway, ECAR. 147 pages This study explores the practices and perspectives of IT organizations that support the academic research enterprise. To collect, analyze, and distribute information across an expanding range academic disciplines and geographic locations, research efforts rely heavily on IT infrastructure, people, and a broad range of IT services. Ever-larger data sets are being collected and shared, simulations and visualization are becoming routine tools, and the co-evolution of science and computing increasingly requires scientists to have solid grounding in information management. This ECAR study reports the results of a variety of research initiatives: a literature review, quantitative and qualitative data from 328 higher education institutions (315 U.S. and 13 Canadian institutions), and five in-depth cases studies. ECAR reports (including this one) are typically restricted to subscribers. For more detail on this report, and how to obtain it, see: http://www.educause.edu/ers0605/ and http://www.educause.edu/ResearchStudies/1010 HOWEVER, ECAR HAS MADE AVAILABLE A PUBLIC SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGS, WHICH YOU CAN OBTAIN HERE: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ecar_so/ers/ERS0605/ekf0605.pdf Another report that is part of this overall study which will be of interest to CNI-announce readers is "What Do Researchers Need? Higher Education IT from a Researcher's Perspective" by Sandra Braman; details are here: http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ECP0601 Unfortunately, there's no corresponding free summary for this report, though you may find Sandra Braman's article from the July Educause Review on "Transformations of the Research Enterprise" helpful. This is freely available and is at: http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ERM0641 Clifford Lynch Director, CNI --============_-1053845464==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" EDUCAUSE/ECAR Study on IT Engagement in Research
ECAR, the subscription research program within EDUCAUSE, has issued a major report on IT and Research Computing:

IT Engagement in Research: A Baseline Study
Harvey Blustain, Act IV Consulting, Inc., with Sandra Braman, ECAR and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Richard N. Katz, ECAR; and Gail Salaway, ECAR. 147 pages
This study explores the practices and perspectives of IT organizations that support the academic research enterprise. To collect, analyze, and distribute information across an expanding range academic disciplines and geographic locations, research efforts rely heavily on IT infrastructure, people, and a broad range of IT services. Ever-larger data sets are being collected and shared, simulations and visualization are becoming routine tools, and the co-evolution of science and computing increasingly requires scientists to have solid grounding in information management. This ECAR study reports the results of a variety of research initiatives: a literature review, quantitative and qualitative data from 328 higher education institutions (315 U.S. and 13 Canadian institutions), and five in-depth cases studies.

ECAR reports (including this one) are typically restricted to subscribers. For more detail on this report, and how to obtain it, see:

http://www.educause.edu/ers0605/

and

http://www.educause.edu/ResearchStudies/1010

HOWEVER, ECAR HAS MADE AVAILABLE A PUBLIC SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGS, WHICH YOU CAN OBTAIN HERE:

http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ecar_so/ers/ERS0605/ekf0605.pdf

Another report that is part of this overall study which will be of interest to CNI-announce readers is "What Do Researchers Need? Higher Education IT from a Researcher's Perspective" by Sandra Braman; details are here:

http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ECP0601

Unfortunately, there's no corresponding free summary for this report, though you may find Sandra Braman's article from the July Educause Review on "Transformations of the Research Enterprise" helpful. This is freely available and is at:

http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ERM0641


Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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