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Hi SCRTers! I hope you’re all doing well and having a happy new year so far.

It is with sadness that I share that I am leaving CUNY at the end of January. That means we are looking for a new SCRT co-chair! New and seasoned SCRT members welcome.

I have truly loved working with Nancy and all SCRT members for the last year. Happy to answer…[Read more]

Hi everyone!

You are invited to the Scholarly Communication Round Table’s annual lightning talks! We will be hosting a series of lightning talks on ethical issues in scholarly communication, including questionable research practices, privacy, peer review, and more! Anyone interested in this subject matter is welcome to attend.

We will be m…[Read more]

Hi again everyone! Apologies if you’re seeing this message twice.

For our Spring 2022 event we are organizing an event around the theme of disability and accessibility in scholcomm. Does this sound up your alley? Join us on the planning committee! The committee is currently me, Nancy, and Stephen Klein, but the more, the merrier. We are also…[Read more]

You are invited to participate in SCRT’s annual Fall Lightning Talk event! This event will be held on November 29, from 2:00-3:30.

Lightning talks are short (5-10 minute) presentations on a specific topic. This year, our event will feature lightning talks on ethical issues in scholarly communication. Please see below for a list of topics that w…[Read more]

Hi SCRTers,

This is a reminder about SCRT’s first Fall 2021 meeting! We are excited to hear your ideas for the Fall lightning talks and Spring event. We also welcome reflections on last semester’s event about preprints. The meeting will take place on Thursday, October 7 from 3:30-5:00pm (Zoom details below).

Agenda:

1. Check-in: Updates
   1. Are…

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Peer Review Week is an annual global event celebrating the essential role that peer review plays in maintaining quality in scholarly communication. Free online workshops and presentations take place September 20-24, 2021 and address the theme “Identity in Peer Review.” Presenters look at the role of personal and social identity in peer review…[Read more]

Representatives of 500 Women Scientists, GeoLatinas and LatinXinBME issue a call to action, highlighting 10 key practices.

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2021/09/09/call-action-more-socially-just-publishing-opinion

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The deadline for our eighth annual cross-institutional NYCDH Digital Humanities Graduate Student Project Award is fast approaching! We invite all graduate students…[Read more]

Dear SCRT,

This is an invitation to our first fall meeting! All SCRT meetings this semester will be conducted online. I hope you can join us!

The meeting will take place on October 7, from 3:30-5:00 (Zoom Details below).

Agenda:

1. Check in: Updates (3:40-4:20)
1a. Are people planning anything for OA Week?
2. Brainstorming ideas for lightning…[Read more]

I’m attending Library Publishing Forum this week, and some of us are talking about working our way through the asynchronous Library Publishing Virtual Workshop Series together as a cohort, likely in Fall 2021. If you’d be interested in joining this group, please fill out this quick survey.

(Library publishing doesn’t have to be part of your job…[Read more]

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]