CUNY Academic Commons

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 attend

Open access scholarly literature—roughly, scholarly works that are…[Read more]

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]

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]

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]

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)

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

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]

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]

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]

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]