The theme for SCI 2019 is Equity in Scholarly Communications. Read more about it at the SCI 2019 theme page.
The theme for SCI 2018 was Overcoming Risk. Read more about it at the SCI 2018 Theme page.
The theme for SCI 2017 was Scholarly Storytelling: Compelling Research for an Engaged Public. Read more about it on the SCI 2017 Theme page.
The theme for SCI 2016 was Incentives, Economics, and Values: Changing the Political Economy of Scholarly Publishing. Read more about in on the SCI 2016 Theme page.
The theme for the 2015 Institute as Validating and valuing digital scholarship. More information about it can be found in this page about the SCI 2015 theme.
The theme for the 2014 Institute was Scholarship and the Crowd. You can read more about it on the SCI 2014 page.