NIH Cuts ICR – Implications for Research Institutions and Scholarly Publishing
What are the implications of last Friday’s NIH ICR budget cut? @lisalibrarian offers an early analysis.
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is Professor as well as Coordinator for Research Professional Development in the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the University’s School of Information Sciences, European Union Center, and Center for Global Studies. Her responsibilities encompass training, coaching, and mentoring library employees to achieve success in their research and scholarship roles. Lisa has taught courses in the iSchool on user education, international information organizations and policy making, library service evaluation and assessment, and academic librarianship. Lisa is the Chair of the ORCID Board of Directors and is active in numerous other professional organizations and associations. Lisa has consulted, presented, and published widely on scholarly communications, publishing, the value of libraries, strategic planning, organizational innovation, emerging technologies, program evaluation, library assessment, inclusion and equity, information literacy, and teaching and learning. Her clients include libraries, colleges and universities, scholarly and professional associations, non-profit organizations, and for-profit companies in the library business community. For more information – website: lisahinchliffe.com, Twitter: @lisalibrarian, and ORCID: 0000-0002-5129-4235.
What are the implications of last Friday’s NIH ICR budget cut? @lisalibrarian offers an early analysis.
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