[Asis-l] FW: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] EDUCAUSE/ECAR Study on IT Engagement in Research

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded.  Dick Hill]

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From: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition [mailto:CNI-ANNOUNCE at cni.org]
On Behalf Of Clifford Lynch
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:20 PM
To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition
Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] 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