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Looking for ideas for Open Access Week? (please excuse duplicate posting)

Join on Tuesday, August 14th at 12 EDT / 9 PDT, for the monthly OpenCon Librarian call.

This year’s Open Access Week (Oct 22-28) theme is “Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge”. Do you have a plan? Are you looking for ideas? Join us for an Open Access Week…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Great idea from Monica Berger (City Tech) about this film that will be available for free screening during Open Access Week: https://paywallthemovie.com Check out the details.

Also, please mark your calendars for the next LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable planning meeting on Sept. 28th, 2:30-4 pm, at the Graduate Center…[Read more]

Please excuse the cross-posting:[ from SCHOLCOMM listserv ]

Greetings!

We’re writing to invite you to share your experience with scholarly communication in your professional life. Our research study is part of a project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, “OER of Scholarly Communication,” (LG-72-17-0132-17 https://www.imls.gov…[Read more]

Hi All,   Just writing with a final reminder about this upcoming event.

Description and RSVP details here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-labor-of-open-the-impact-of-oer-and-scholarly-communications-initiatives-on-cuny-libraries-tickets-44887392399 

If you have already registered, please do take a moment to fill out this brief, anonymous questi…[Read more]

Hi All,

I’m very pleased to announce this upcoming event and professional development opportunity co-organized by the LACUNY Scholarly Communications round table and the OLS Copyright and Scholarly Communications Committee. Find details and RSVP information below.

EVENT Description

As CUNY rolls out new library-led open education and open s…[Read more]

Hello Everyone:

At the last meeting of the SCRT, we discussed changing the name of this Group. The main reason for doing so would be to have the name be more inclusive of our interests in OPEN-ness of knowledge and learning: open access, open scholarship, open educational resources and more. The impetus for a name change came when we merged the…[Read more]

Hi All,

Please find minutes from today’s meeting here.

We’re looking for volunteers to help out with the Open@CUNY blog so be in touch if you’re willing to write / solicit content for a month (or split a month with someone).

Also, we had a couple of proposals for changing our name from Scholarly Communications Round Table. Please submit…[Read more]

Hello Everyone!

Please come to the next SCRT planning meeting. We’ll pool ideas for our spring event, and discuss our Blog (Open@CUNY) and other issues.

When: Tues. Feb 20: 3 pm – 4:30 pm

Where: Graduate Center Library, Room C196.05

Here is a working agenda to which you can add suggested topics:
https://tinyurl.com/y7mh7bnw

Looking for…[Read more]

Hello Everyone!

Please come to the next SCRT planning meeting. We’ll pool ideas for our spring event, and discuss our Blog (Open@CUNY) and other issues.

When: Tues. Feb 20: 3 pm – 4:30 pm

Where: Graduate Center Library, Room C196.05

Here is a working agenda to which you can add suggested topics:
https://tinyurl.com/y7mh7bnw

Looking forward…[Read more]

There are lots of opportunities to participate in Open Education Week:

https://www.openeducationweek.org/page/call-for-participation

Sharing resources on OER would be a good way to publicize what your library is doing:

RESOURCES

The Open Education Week website will direct visitors to resources that provide tools and supporting materials to…[Read more]

The free platform, started in the Netherlands by software engineer Vincent Tunru, enables academics to start their own preprint journal “in a matter of minutes.” Academics can use the platform to share early research findings, as well as lab notes, conference posters, data and other wor…[Read more]

Hello Everyone,

We are looking for a volunteer to shepherd the OA@CUNY Blog during February. This would be a great opportunity to write something for the blog and to select content to re-post. It’s not a big time commitment, and if you’re on tenure track, it’s a good service opportunity.

Here are the Editorial Responsibilities:

Editors should…[Read more]

This might be of interest—Please excuse the re-posting:

Subject: [collib-l] 2018 IS Midwinter Virtual Discussion Forum

2018 IS Midwinter Virtual Discussion Forum

Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 from 1:00pm-2:00pm Central Standard Time (2:00-3:00 pm EST)

How can we best integrate scholarly communication into today’s academic library i…[Read more]

Hi, All,

OCLC is offering a free webinar tomorrow as part of its recent efforts to engage more librarians with Wikipedia. The full announcement is below!

Best,

Megan

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You’re invited to join us for this free #WJwebinar! Please spread the word!

Citations Needed: Build Your Wikipedia Skills While building the World’s Enc…[Read more]

Hello all,

Some of you may already be aware of Common Ground Publishing Research Networks, they are currently accepting proposals for their  annual conference on Books, Publishing & Libraries; which takes place in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania in July. The theme for this conference is “Communicating Values—Scholarly Com…[Read more]

Hi All,

Great to see many of you on Friday. Really enjoyed the conversation!

I’m sharing 2 documents here that Kenneth mentioned during the event: Open Access Policy and Scholarship Statements from Lehman. If anyone would like to share statements from their campuses, think it would be great to see some models that campuses can adapt.

Best,

Nora