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Mark your calendars for the next SCRT working meeting!

When: Fri. Sept. 15th, 2-4 pm
Where: Graduate Center Library, Room GC 196.05

We welcome everyone interested in Open Access and OER to attend. Our main agenda will be to:

1) Form group to work on the Blog; curate content using PressForward; select Blog Editor(s). Note:Our Blog, OA@CUNY…[Read more]

Fordham University is planning a Bronx-themed Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon for Open Access Week (Oct. 25th- 1 pm) at Lincoln Center Campus.

They are looking for volunteers to help plan this event.

If you are interested, please contact:Kristen Treglia, Senior Instructional Technologist and meeting organizer at treglia@fordham.edu.

The next planning…[Read more]

Please excuse the cross-posting:

North Carolina Library Association
College and University Section Webinar Wednesday 8/2/17: Understanding the Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy: Part 1
August 2, 2017

Understanding the Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy: Part 1…[Read more]

For information about OpenCon:https://apply.opencon2017.org/apply-2017/

OpenCon is the conference and community for students and early career academic professionals interested in advancing Open Access, Open Education and Open Data. OpenCon 2017 will be held on November 11-13 in Berlin, Germany.

Applications close on August 1st.

Also, there…[Read more]

Interested in scholarly publishing and open access in Africa?

“Tragedy of the perishing scholar” is an editorial in a Kenya newspaper written by a Kenyan academic. Omanga explains how African academic publishing once was more robust and how low(er) quality and predatory publishing became prevalent. Best takeway: “To address this problem, it is…[Read more]

Hi SCRTers,

Those of you who attended the wonderful Global Open Access webinar (and those who didn’t!) may be interested in attending a light lunch & conversation with Gwenda Thomas, Executive Director of Library Services at the University of Cape Town, South Africa on Thursday, July 13. The event will be at 12:30 at the Graduate Center (room…[Read more]

You’re invited! to the SCRT planning meeting. Join us for a lively discussion (and chocolate!). We’ll be looking back at the past year and ahead to the fall. Bring your ideas, the wilder the better!

Thursday, June 22, 2-4pm
Graduate Center Library, rm 196.05

Our agenda is:
• review of 2016-17 events and activities
• brainstorming ideas for 201…[Read more]

Hi, Everyone!

Predatory publishing has been an important and ongoing conversation for this group. This morning, the Chronicle pointed me to an article that investigates the rewards of publishing in predatory journals. The sample size is small, and I haven’t interrogated the methodology further because — that’s right — the research article is…[Read more]

Thanks to everyone who filled out the scheduling poll for the summer planning meeting. We’re on for:

Thursday, June 22, 2-4pm 

Graduate Center Library, rm 196.05

Our tentative agenda is:

reviewing 2016-17 events and activities
brainstorming ideas for 2017-18 events and activities
electing new co-chair

Jean will be stepping down, so…[Read more]

Following our last meeting with editors of OA journals, this article might be an interesting read:

Ojennus, P. (2017). Open access and the humanities: The case of classics journals. Library Resources & Technical Services 61(2), 81-92.

http://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=libraryfaculty

Best, Madeline Cohen

SAVE THE DATE:

The LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable invites you to our second annual webinar on Global Open Access:

Date: June 7, 2017

Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. (EST)

Instructions on signing in to webinar will follow soon.

OPEN ACCESS in AFRICA

Learn about open access and issues that affect scholarly communications in Africa from…[Read more]

The LACUNY Scholarly Communications and Serials Roundtables invite you to:

Envisioning New Open Access Journal Models:

Editors and Librarians in Conversation

Friday, April 28, 3-5pm

CUNY Graduate Center, Room 8400

Please RSVP to: Jean Amaral jamaral@bmcc.cuny.edu

Join OA journal editors Chris Eliot, Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Bi…[Read more]

This free and open seminar looks particularly interesting:

Innovating Communication in Scholarship, a UC Davis IFHA project invites you to:

AN OPEN DIGITAL SOUTH: RISKS AND REWARDS

Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 9:00 AM PDT (12:00 PM EDT)

– to –

Friday, May 26, 2017 at 3:00 PM PDT (6:00 PM EDT)

UC Davis School of Law

400 Mrak Hall Drive

Davis,…[Read more]

Save the date for:
Envisioning New Open Access Journal Models:
Editors and Librarians in Conversation
Friday, April 28, 3-5pm

We’re in the process of finalizing the location, but wanted to get this on your calendars. We’ll be having a conversation and brainstorming session on future models for OA journals with editors Chris Eliot, Philosophy, T…[Read more]

If you love the Open Access Hulk (if you know him, how can you not? — and if you don’t know him, he’s @openaccesshulk on Twitter), you might enjoy my interview with him about open access outreach strategies. It can be hard to follow really long exchanges on Twitter, so I archived the interview on Storify and embedded it in a post on the O…[Read more]

Greetings from Baltimore! I realize many of us are conferencing at ACRL this week, so I want to highlight an important announcement from the team at Open Access Button. As they write, they’ve spent the last year focused on integrating the OA Button “with library catalogs and interlibrary loan systems  — to surface accessible copies of artic…[Read more]

As promised at the 2/10 SCRT meeting (sorry for the delay!), here are the slides Adriana Palmer and I used for the GC’s workshop on using Google Scholar Profiles and CUNY Academic Works to boost your online profile:

Your Google Scholar Profile: Why to Create It and How to Fine-tune It:
http://bit.ly/2leNVGE

We’ll be doing the workshop again on…[Read more]

The Feb 10 notes are available for folks who missed the planning meeting, as well as for folks who were able to attend (feel free to send corrections or edit directly).

Also, if you’re interested in helping to set a vision for the combined (OA and OER) Open @ CUNY blog, please let Jean (jamaral@bmcc.cuny.edu) and Madeline…[Read more]