CUNY Academic Commons

Ooo, I like the idea of the Roundtable acting as a collator and distributor of announcements about CUNY Open Access Week events. I also like the idea of collecting and storing details of the different events, which would allow other campuses to host similar events without reinventing the wheel. Maybe these materials could be saved in docs here or uploaded to the CUNY Libraries DSpace?

Last year, after the Brooklyn College and City Tech OA Week events, we had a debriefing session to discuss what worked, what could be improved, etc. At one of its fall meetings, maybe the Scholarly Communications Roundtable could include a share-and-compare postpartum discussion for those who coordinated OA Week events and those who hope to do something next year? Perhaps in November or December?

Just giving this a bump in everyone’s inboxes. We’ve planned for two faculty workshops for OA Week at City Tech this year: one on authors’ rights (similar to the session at the ACRL Scholarly Communications Roadshow last summer), and one on using open course materials.

I know that Brooklyn has OA Week plans too, is any other campus planning an event? We can use the Open Access at CUNY site (http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/) here on the Academic Commons to help publicize the events, so please let one of the site admins know if you’d like to be added to post. (Site admins are Jill, Alycia, Monica Berger, and me.)

Best,
Maura