CUNY Academic Commons

Members of this group may be interested in METRO’s new Data Lifecycle Special Interest Group (a reinvention of the former Digital Preservation SIG):

Announcement: The Data Lifecycle SIG’s first meeting!
When: May 5, 2021 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

In the first event of the Data Lifecycle Interest Group, previously the Digital…

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With the help of materials developed by the Authors Alliance, I will be teaching a workshop on book publication contracts this Thursday, April 22 at 2-3pm. It is open to all, not just the GC community. I’d love to see some of you there, and please feel free to share the workshop information with faculty at your campuses as well:

Understanding and…[Read more]

The LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable and Junior Faculty Research Roundtable would like to welcome all CUNY faculty, staff, and students to our joint event on community-owned preprint repositories!

Preprint Repositories: Taking Control of Our Work
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Time: 3:30-5:00pm

Public demand for scholarly research…[Read more]

For those who aren’t on ACRL Digital Scholarship Section’s listserv, this interesting announcement showed up today. I’m sharing it in full here in case it’s of interest…

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Please join the DSS Open Research Discussion Group for our next discussion forum on Monday, March 29 at 3-4 PM (Central). Josh Bolick (University of Kansas), Will Cross…[Read more]

Hi fellow SCRT members!

Please save the date for our next Scholarly Communications Roundtable meeting on Thursday, February 25th from 3:00-5:00pm.

We thought it would be interesting to discuss HuMetricsHSS, which is also a nice extension of our last meeting on citation metrics. We plan to invite one or two CUNY folks who are more familiar with…[Read more]

Hi everyone!

An interesting question has come up at my campus, and I’m hoping to get some advice from other CUNY people.

I’m trying to build some partnerships to get more student work into the QC instance of the repository, and so far it’s been challenging! One of the departments this has come up in is the Library Studies program.  Their…[Read more]

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Learn about how data librarians support open scholarship!

ACRL/NY members, please join the Open Access Discussion Group for an event on data librarianship. Our speaker is Vicky Steeves.

When: January 15, 2021, 2-3:30 PM  What: Data Librarianship in Support of Open and Reproducible Scholarship In this…[Read more]

Dear fellow ScholCommies,

Wiley has just announced that it’s acquired Hindawi, a publisher originally based out of Egypt that has been an important player in the open access ecosystem. It’s troubling to see further commercial consolidation in this market, one which SPARC’s Heather Joseph notes as “eerily reminiscent of the pattern of mergers and…[Read more]

After years of turning down requests from initiatives like I4OC, Elsevier has committed to making their citation data openly available via CrossRef and has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). The Elsevier press release is available at https://www.elsevier.com/connect/advancing-responsible-research-assessment, and an…[Read more]

Hi all!

First, thank you all for your support of my co-chairship. I’m excited to work with Nancy!

Second, I’d like to remind everyone about the upcoming SCRT meeting, which will take place on Thursday, December 3, 3:30-5:00 PM. At this meeting, we will hold lightning talks on citation metrics. You can still sign up here: https://docs.google.com…[Read more]

I saw this on the Library Link of the Day.

Proposal to install spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights shocks academics

From the story:

The speaker, Corey Roach, a security officer at the University of Utah, described a plug-in that could collect “biometric data, which can be things like how quick did they type, how do they move their mouse,” in ord…[Read more]