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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]

I clicked on an email link from Academia.edu to claim authorship of a poster Nanette Johnson and I created for a scholarly communication conference in 2018.

I then visited the Academia site and saw that the title for our poster in the Academia metadata showed the pdf for a paper “Establishment and verification of nonlinear bolthead connection…[Read more]

I was fascinated to see this job and its single focus on the institutional repository (IR) come across the schol comm listserv, at a time when most library jobs ask for librarians to wear so many hats. That’s real commitment to building the IR.

https://uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/11415

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Libraries…[Read more]

apropos of today’s meeting, this report just came across my twitter: https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1193&context=lib_services_fac_pubs

Abstract

To understand the library study space needs of students with disabilities by thinking about study spaces through a disability lens and using theory-based interview…[Read more]

Hi all,

Members of this group may be interested in this webinar about Belgian university KU Leuven’s approach to investing in open publishers, infrastructures, and other initiatives:

Library funding for Open Access at KU Leuven
May 16, 2022
8-9am ET (really early, but interesting enough to get me out of bed!)

Description: At KU Leuven we…[Read more]