LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
This group is where members of the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable (and anyone else who is interested) can discuss programming and issues relating to scholarly communications in the libraries and elsewhere.
Roundtable Co-Chairs: Nancy Foasberg (Queens)
Group logo by Thomas Frank: http://flic.kr/p/9DyKAa
Recent group activity
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Jill Cirasella started the topic Scholarship for the Public Good: Paths to Open Access in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 1 week ago
The entire CUNY community is invited to attend this event at the Graduate Center — please share with faculty and graduate students at your campuses!
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Scholarship for the Public Good: Paths to Open Access
Thursday, February 9
4:00-5:00pm EST
Online (Zoom)
Register to attendOpen access scholarly literature—roughly, scholarly works that are…[Read more]
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Jill Cirasella started the topic Call for book/product reviewers (JLSC) in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 months ago
Potentially of interest to those in this group:
The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication just put out a call for contributors to its “Brief Reviews of Books and Products” section, which “provides a forum for description and critical evaluation of the quality, effectiveness, and value of recent books or products.”
If you don’t…[Read more]
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Jill Cirasella started the topic Adjunct Schol Comm Librarian position at GC in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Just in case you didn’t see it on CULIBS, I wanted to share this job posting for a temporary adjunct Scholarly Communications Librarian position at the GC. Unfortunately, it really is temporary, with an end date of April 30, 2023. If you know someone who might be interested in this short-term position, please pass it along to them!
Temporary…[Read more]
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Nancy Foasberg started the topic MIT Direct to Open in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 months, 4 weeks ago
I mean, not to plug for MIT or anything. But I got this press release in my email where they announce that they are doing a book publishing program that sounds a little bit like a subscribe to open model, where libraries pay for the archive and they put the money toward making new books open. It’s not a new idea, but I guess I pay more attention…[Read more]
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Michael Kirby replied to the topic New SCRT Co-Chair — Michael Kirby in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 4 months ago
Thank you everyone for the kind words! I’m super excited to work with all of you!
After meeting with Nancy, we thought it might be a good idea to form an “events” subcommittee composed of three or four people. From my understanding, the Roundtable is responsible for putting on a smallish event in the fall and a largish event in the spring. We…[Read more]
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Nancy Foasberg started the topic Notes from 9/15 SCRT meeting in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 4 months, 1 week ago
Hi all! I’m sharing my notes on the 9/15 SCRT meeting for those who couldn’t make it. (I’ve tried to be accurate, but apologies if I’ve misrepresented or misunderstood anything)
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Megan Wacha replied to the topic New SCRT Co-Chair — Michael Kirby in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 4 months, 1 week ago
Congratulations, Michael! It’s been great working with you on Academic Works, and I’m excited to welcome you as the new co-chair!!
Meg
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Beth Evans replied to the topic New SCRT Co-Chair — Michael Kirby in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 4 months, 1 week ago
Thanks for the good news, Nancy.
Hi Michael. So glad your will be our new co-chair. Welcome to a really important and interesting committee.
Looking forward to all the planning and programming ahead of us this year.
Beth
Beth Evans
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Jill Cirasella replied to the topic New SCRT Co-Chair — Michael Kirby in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 4 months, 1 week ago
Fantastic! Michael, as a former SCRT co-chair, I can say with confidence that it was one of the nicest co-chairing gigs — I hope you enjoy it as well. I look forward to the SCRT year ahead!
-Jill
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Nancy Foasberg started the topic New SCRT Co-Chair — Michael Kirby in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 4 months, 1 week ago
Hi all,
I’m very excited to announce that Michael Kirby, of Kingsborough Community College, has agreed to serve as co-chair of SCRT! Please give him a warm welcome.
Nancy
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Michael Kirby joined the group
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 4 months, 1 week ago
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Thomas Cleary joined the group
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 4 months, 1 week ago
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Megan Wacha started the topic What is Climate Justice?: A pre-OA Week Conversation (Tomorrow! September 29th) in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 4 months, 1 week ago
Hi Everyone! Climate justice is a new-ish concept for many of us, and SPARC is hosting a conversation to support folx as we prepare events in support of this year’s Open Access Week theme. Whether you plan to host an event in October, or just want to get ideas for how open can be used to support a particular topic area, this conversation is for…[Read more]
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Nancy Foasberg replied to the topic LACUNY Scholarly Communication Round Table Fall Meeting in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Hi all!
If anyone wanted to attend right now and is frantically looking for the link.. here it is.
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Nancy Foasberg replied to the topic New (and improved!) federal public access policy announced in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Wow! This seems really great. I’m still reading through all this. I’m very curious about the reference to “agency-designated repositories” — I assume that means PubMed for a start, but I wonder what it means for other disciplines.
(And I’m assuming everyone saw Meg’s CULIBS post about the SPARC meeting, right? I have a couple other things going…[Read more]
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Beth Evans replied to the topic New (and improved!) federal public access policy announced in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Fantastic news, Jill. Thanks for sharing.
Beth
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Jill Cirasella started the topic New (and improved!) federal public access policy announced in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Whoa! Big news for public access to federally funded research! The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy just released a memo saying that the results of taxpayer-funded research should be publicly accessible immediately, doing away with the 12-month embargo permissible in the existing policies from NIH, etc. The memo calls for…[Read more]
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Nancy Foasberg started the topic LACUNY Scholarly Communication Round Table Fall Meeting in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 5 months, 2 weeks ago
All interested CUNY librarians are invited to the Scholarly Communication Round Table’s first Fall 2022 meeting!
Please note that I am still looking for a co-chair! If you think you might be interested in co-chairing, please let me know. It’s a great way to get more involved in the CUNY scholcomm community, and it’s fun to do this work with a co-…[Read more]
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Beth Evans started the topic Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 6 months, 1 week ago
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/02/pearson-plans-to-sell-its-textbooks-as-nfts
This has me thinking more and more about OERs.
Here is an earlier article on NFTs for books in general, puts a mostly positive spin on the trend:
NFTs for Books: How This Emerging Tech Can Reward Authors & Readers
Not a positive for libraries, though. More on that here:…[Read more]
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Stephen Klein replied to the topic Academia, at it again, with bizarre connections in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable via email 7 months, 3 weeks ago
?Poor cataloging and or user entry?
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