LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable Meeting Minutes, February 3, 2014

10:00am-12:00pm, Graduate Center Library, Rm 196.05 Attendees: Jill Cirasella, Maura Smale, Jay Bernstein, Alycia Sellie, Ann Matsuuchi, Jenny Furlong, Stephen Francoeur, Agenda: - Welcome, introductions - Information Interventions Spring event planning - New business (Co-chair elections at the end of the semester) Information Interventions planning - Our Fall events were very well-attended, seems like the series has legs - From our Fall meeting, our thoughts for events in the Spring were: OER/OA textbooks AHA/theses and dissertations (debate/panel) - Discussion of possibility/benefits/detriments of having both of these events on the same day Travel considerations, though difficult to know which option is most attractive Audience: how much overlap will there be between the two events? Also, how much should we market to non-CUNY folks? When to schedule? Could be influenced by who to speak Who will speak? OER/OA textbooks - For OER, there is a committee co-chaired by Amy Ballmer and Steve Ovadia - Instruction, overview of terms and options, overview of experiences, then details of a couple of options - Perhaps someone from OER committee to do the introductions - Details from Art History faculty who presented at CUNY IT? Perhaps paired Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis in MALS might know folks from Smarthistory.org? - Also maybe Math faculty from City Tech? (OA precalculus textbook: http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/ttradler/precalculus.html) - Also try and get someone from SUNY re: their open textbook project? (http://opensuny.org/omp/index.php/SUNYOpenTextbooks) AHA/dissertations presentation/debate - Mostly an issue for Humanities/Social Sciences, less so in Sciences because not typically trying to publish a book from the dissertation - Jill notes articles in C&RL (series of two articles, first from last summer) that explores the attitudes of publishers about this topic (http://crl.acrl.org/content/74/4/368.full.pdf+html) -- link to these on our handout for sure - Maureen McCormick from NYU might be someone to ask? - Gioia Stephens might have connections from her former work as Acquisitions Editor at OUP - Folks who are willing to be quoted in Chron might be a good bet? Bill Germano at Cooper Union? (http://cooper.edu/humanities/people/william-germano) - MLA? Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Katina Rogers? - Folks in the History (or other) departments at the GC? - Would like to encourage a real debate? - Also, is book for getting tenure (or even getting a job) part of the issue? - Include students, too, perhaps one who published OA and one who embargoed? - Also thinking of not just students making these decisions for themselves but also those who advise students - Stephen has a contact at Columbia that he could ask; Alycia might know someone at Columbia UP - AHAgate links here: http://www.publishing.umich.edu/2013/07/24/what-were-reading-ahagate/ - Adeline Koh at Richard Stockton College (near Atlantic City NJ) wrote blog post with her thinking around publishing her dissertation OA (tho she doesn't disagree with the AHA): http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/publishing-dissertation-online/51361 - Niko Pfund, president of OUP US (http://oupacademic.tumblr.com/post/56194821121/niko-pfund-president-of-oxford-university-press) - Jill can ask at SPARC if there's a connection here with the Right to Research group, whether students have ever taken up these issues - Format: panel debate, very short intro, then prep questions and have moderator - Purpose to inform, there's no one right answer Date possibilities for OER: - Friday March 7th - Friday March 14th - Friday March 28th? Date possibilities for dissertations: - Friday April 11th (Spring Break is 4/14-22) - Friday April 25th? - Friday May 9th Could also push the dissertations event to the Fall if need be, perhaps let's see how people respond? NEXT STEPS: - Jenny suggests reaching out to the dissertations people and asking for May 9th, then see what kinds of responses we get - Kathleen Fitzpatrick from MLA (pro-open and alternatives to the book) (Jenny); Acquisitions Editor from Penn (pro-embargo) (Jenny); perhaps someone from a press who is not pro-embargo (Jenny); students, one who did embargo and one who didn't (current or former) (Greg Donovan former GC - Jenny) (could put out a call for grad students who did embargo) - Perhaps ask Kathleen Fitzpatrick to to introduce and set terms of the debate, then moderate? Though want to make sure that we have time to hear from her as well, she has lots to say on these issues. Titles for these events? - The Great Dissertation Dissemination Debate: Options for Sharing - To Embargo or Not to Embargo - Share it Now or Save it For Later: Should Students Embargo Their Theses/Dissertations? - Good to Go? Sharing or Embargoing Your Dissertation - Making Choices: Your Dissertation and Your Scholarly Career - Punchy: Making Choices about Your Dissertation and Your Scholarly Career - Share it Now or Save it For Later: Making Choices about Your Dissertation - The Scholarly Publication Future of Your Work - Punchy: Should Students Share Their Dissertations and How to Advise Them - Share It Now or Save It For Later: Making Choices about Dissertations and Publishing - What Should I Do with My Dissertation? A Debate about Open Access and Embargo Options OTHER NEXT STEPS: - Maura, Ann, Alycia to begin to wrangle OER event (date and speaker possibilities, title possibilities)