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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: Nancy Foasberg (Queens) and Joanna Thompson (BMCC, City Tech)
Group logo by Thomas Frank: http://flic.kr/p/9DyKAa
Recent group activity
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Nancy Foasberg replied to the topic Open Research Forum Event & Call for Proposals in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 months agoA follow up to this: there is now an open call for materials for the ScholComm Notebook! More information here.
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Jill Cirasella replied to the topic Library Publishing Virtual Workshop Series in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 months, 1 week agoPS: This JLSC review of the Library Publishing Curriculum provides some details: https://jlsc-pub.org/articles/abstract/10.7710/2162-3309.2353/
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Jill Cirasella started the topic Library Publishing Virtual Workshop Series in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 months, 1 week agoI’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]
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Jill Cirasella started the topic METRO’s New Data Lifecycle Special Interest Group in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 3 months agoMembers 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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Jill Cirasella started the topic April 22 Workshop: Understanding and Negotiating Book Publication Contracts in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 3 months agoWith 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]
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Monica Berger started the topic Register Now! April 8: Preprint Repositories: Taking Control of Our Work in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 4 months agoThe 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: 3:30-5:00pmPublic demand for scholarly research…[Read more]
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Beth Evans replied to the topic Open Research Forum Event & Call for Proposals in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 5 months agoThis sounds like a great initiative. I have registered. Thanks for sharing, Nancy.
Beth
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Nancy Foasberg started the topic Open Research Forum Event & Call for Proposals in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 5 months agoFor 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]
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Joanna Thompson replied to the topic Spring 2021 LACUNY SCRT Meeting: Thursday, February 25th, 3:00-5:00pm in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 5 months agoHi SCRTers!
This is a reminder about our meeting this Thursday, February 25th from 3:00-5:00pm! We will talk about HumetricsHSS and share scholcomm news (see rough agenda above). Nancy has put together some discussion questions to get us started, but please take a look at the HumetricsHSS site and bring your questions and comments to the…[Read more]
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Beth Evans replied to the topic Spring 2021 LACUNY SCRT Meeting: Thursday, February 25th, 3:00-5:00pm in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 5 months, 4 weeks agoThis is something new to me and it looks fascinating. I have passed the HuMetricsHSS link on to our Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and our Associate Provost of Faculty and Administration at Brooklyn College.
I see from the website that they offer workshop guidelines and resources. Will the LACUNY meeting be making use of any of that m…[Read more]
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Joanna Thompson started the topic Spring 2021 LACUNY SCRT Meeting: Thursday, February 25th, 3:00-5:00pm in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 5 months, 4 weeks agoHi 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]
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Megan Wacha replied to the topic Student Research with Human Subjects in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 6 months, 1 week agoHi, Nancy,
Thanks for bringing this important question to this list! I suspect there is a lot of overlap, you might also try the list for Academic Works Coordinators at ACADEMICWORKS@listserv.cuny.edu. 🙂
As you know, once a student’s work is made public, it changes the nature of that work and classifies as “published” for the purposes of the…[Read more]
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Nancy Foasberg started the topic Student Research with Human Subjects in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 6 months, 1 week agoHi 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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Monica Berger started the topic Register now! Jan. 15: Data Librarianship in Support of Open and Reproducible Sc in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 6 months, 2 weeks ago***Please excuse cross-postings***
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]
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Jill Cirasella replied to the topic Wiley acquires Hindawi in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 6 months, 2 weeks agoWow, this really highlights the importance of having (or, for us, looking for) some kind of binding foundational documents ensuring that supposedly values-driven (as opposed to value-driven, har har) initiatives stay that way…
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Megan Wacha started the topic Wiley acquires Hindawi in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 6 months, 2 weeks agoDear 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]
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Stephen Klein replied to the topic Elsevier signs DORA, moves to make citations openly available in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 7 months, 1 week agoGood press for Elsevier because the OA movement has truly become ubiquitous and the low cost of bread-crumbing of citation data will eventually lead to an appetite for full-text?
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Megan Wacha started the topic Elsevier signs DORA, moves to make citations openly available in the forum
LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 7 months, 1 week agoAfter 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]
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