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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: Jill Cirasella (Graduate Center) and Nancy Foasberg (Queens)
Group logo by Thomas Frank: http://flic.kr/p/9DyKAa
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Stephen Klein replied to the topic Open Journal Matcher is here in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable via email 3 weeks, 2 days agoMark,
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This is an amazing idea and bound to be a valuable tool.
Great work.
Best,
Stephen
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Mark Eaton started the topic Open Journal Matcher is here in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 3 weeks, 2 days agoI’m very pleased to let you know about a project I’m releasing today, the Open Journal Matcher (https://ojm.ocert.at). It’s a resource for people looking to find a suitable journal for their work. Paste in a draft abstract and see the best matching open access journals!
Open Journal Matcher uses a natural language processing library called spaCy…[Read more]
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Beth Evans replied to the topic New Site – No Free View? No Review! in the forum
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Stephen Klein replied to the topic New Site – No Free View? No Review! in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable via email 1 month, 3 weeks ago?Beth,
The links appear to got the BC email login. Can you resend?
Thank you,
Stephen Klein
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Beth Evans started the topic New Site – No Free View? No Review! in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 1 month, 3 weeks agoYou may have seen information about this posted elsewhere including ALA’s Scholcomm.
https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/
This is a new site that launched today. As the organizers state on their blog:“We just launched our new campaign No free view? No review! to encourage researchers to turn down requests to review for closed-access pub…[Read more]
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Jill Cirasella replied to the topic Knowable Magazine in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 1 month, 3 weeks agoIt’s wasn’t remarkable powers of memory — somebody just asked me about it recently!
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Beth Evans replied to the topic Knowable Magazine in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 1 month, 3 weeks agoYes! That’s it. Thank you, Jill. How did you find it? I sort of remember getting mail about it but couldn’t find anything in my old email.
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Jill Cirasella started the topic Open Publishing Fest in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 1 month, 3 weeks agoOpen Publishing Fest is a decentralized public event that brings together communities supporting open source software, open content, and open publishing models.
From May 18th through 29th, Open Publishing Fest will feature discussions, demos, and performances that showcase our paths toward a more open world.
You can see the schedule…[Read more]
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Jill Cirasella replied to the topic Knowable Magazine in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 1 month, 3 weeks agoBeth, is the service you were trying to think of a few weeks ago Research Outreach (https://researchoutreach.org/)? They’re an operation that charges researchers for the creation of lay-language versions of their articles…turning them almost into press releases.
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Beth Evans replied to the topic ResearchGate and Wiley announce cooperation agreement in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 months agoHi Megan,
Do you think this is connected in anyway/similar to the recent alliance of ResearchGate and Springer?
https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/ResearchGate+and+Springer+Nature+pilot+program
Beth
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Megan Wacha started the topic ResearchGate and Wiley announce cooperation agreement in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 months agoHi Everyone,
ResearchGate and Wiley announced a cooperation agreement this morning:
ResearchGate, the largest professional network for researchers, and Wiley, a global leader in research and education, today announced a cooperation agreement to explore ways in which Wiley and ResearchGate can collaborate to better support the needs of…[Read more]
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Beth Evans replied to the topic Knowable Magazine in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 months, 1 week ago🙂
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Megan Wacha replied to the topic Knowable Magazine in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 months, 1 week agoHi Beth,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention! What a difficult time to launch a new publication, but it looks like an interesting one. I always appreciate when publicly accessible research is put into publicly accessible language, as happens when journalists (or communications offices) pick-up open access research from faculty.
Very…[Read more]
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Beth Evans started the topic Knowable Magazine in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 months, 1 week agoLJ published an article on new magazines.
They include Knowable Magazine
“What is known? What isn’t known? Knowable Magazine, the digital publication from Annual Reviews, seeks to make that knowledge accessible to all. Knowable Magazine explores the real-world significance of scholarly work through a journalistic lens. We report on the curre…[Read more]
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Jill Cirasella replied to the topic Next LACUNY SCRT Meeting: Monday, March 23 @ 10am-noon in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 3 months, 3 weeks agoYet another update:
Given how hectic, stressful, and scary this week is for all of us, we’re canceling the Scholarly Communications Roundtable online meeting scheduled for March 23. We will reschedule it for a calmer time.
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Nancy Foasberg replied to the topic Next LACUNY SCRT Meeting: Monday, March 23 @ 10am-noon in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 3 months, 4 weeks agoHere’s an update to the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable meeting for Monday, March 23. This meeting will be held online from 10am-noon. We hope you can make it! We’ll send out the WebEx link as soon as we have it.
Please see below for more details about the meeting! One more thing to keep in mind – Jill will be stepping down as co-c…[Read more]
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Jill Cirasella started the topic New SHERPA/RoMEO coming soon! in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 4 months agoIn case you haven’t seen this news elsewhere (I just saw it today), I thought I’d share that SHERPA/RoMEO is getting a new interface:
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
It’s currently in a public testing period, and the site includes a link to a survey where you can give feedback. On April 14, the old site will be decommissioned, and the new site…[Read more]
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Jill Cirasella replied to the topic Next LACUNY SCRT Meeting: Monday, March 23 @ 10am-noon in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 4 months, 1 week agoApologies for the icky links (routed through the GC’s security software) in my last message. If you have any problems with those links, here are the normal versions of the URLs:
Practicing What You Preach: Evaluating Access of Open Access Research:
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0021.103?view=text;rgn=mainLeveraging Elsevier’s C…[Read more]
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Jill Cirasella started the topic Next LACUNY SCRT Meeting: Monday, March 23 @ 10am-noon in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 4 months, 1 week agoThe next meeting of the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable will be Monday, March 23 @ 10am-noon (location TBA). (Thanks to those who voted in the Doodle poll, and apologies to those for whom this time doesn’t work.) We will begin the meeting with a discussion of these two articles — please read them ahead of time if you can:
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