This spring, the Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library is offering three online workshops related to scholarly publishing. (Each workshop will occur twice: once on a Wednesday evening and once on a Friday afternoon.) All members of the CUNY community are welcome, regardless of campus. The workshops are especially well suited to faculty, graduate students, administrators, and others who seek to formally publish or otherwise disseminate their work.

Each workshop stands on its own — there is no need to attend one in order to attend another. Simply register for whichever one(s) speak to your interests or needs. And if there’s a workshop that interests you that you can’t make, register anyway. The presentations will be recorded and shared with all registrants.

 

Copyright and Fair Use for Scholarly Authors
Wednesday, March 11 at 6:30-7:30pm on Zoom (registration link)
Friday, March 13 at 3-4pm on Zoom (registration link)

This workshop will cover key information about copyright, fair use, and the public domain, and look at how copyright law both complicates and facilitates scholarship. Topics will include: What kinds of works are covered by copyright? What rights are included in copyright, and who holds those rights? How long does copyright last? What is the public domain, and how do works become part of it? What is fair use, why does it exist, and how can you determine if a use is fair? How have court cases changed what qualifies as fair use, and what are the implications of those cases for scholarship?

 

Understanding Creative Commons Licenses
Wednesday, March 25 at 6:30-7:30pm on Zoom (registration link)
Friday, March 27 at 3-4pm on Zoom (registration link)

This workshop will cover key information about Creative Commons (CC) licenses—both using CC-licensed works created by others and adding a CC license to your work. Topics will include: the relationship between copyright and CC licenses; what the different CC licenses allow users to do; the difference between using a work and making a derivative work; and choosing a license for your work.

 

AI and Scholarly Publishing: A 30,000-Foot View
Wednesday, April 29 at 6:30-7:30pm on Zoom (registration link)
Friday, May 1 at 3-4pm on Zoom (registration link)

This workshop will look at how AI is changing scholarly publishing, especially journal publishing. Topics will include: publishers’ policies for authors and peer reviewers regarding the use of AI tools; complexities surrounding authors’ disclosure of use of AI tools; ways in which editors and publishers employ AI in their own workflows; how publishers are profiting from the AI boom; and how AI intersects with copyright. (Please note that this workshop is focused on the intersection of AI and scholarly publishing. It will not cover the many ways researchers can and do use AI during research activities that are not connected to the preparation of a manuscript or the publishing process.)

This spring, the Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library is offering three online workshops related to scholarly publishing. (Each workshop will occur twice: once on a Wednesday evening and once on a Friday afternoon.) All members of the CUNY community are welcome, regardless of campus. The workshops are especially well suited to faculty, graduate students, administrators, and others who seek to formally publish or otherwise disseminate their work.

Each workshop stands on its own — there is no need to attend one in order to attend another. Simply register for whichever one(s) speak to your interests or needs. And if there’s a workshop that interests you that you can’t make, register anyway. The presentations will be recorded and shared with all registrants.

 

Copyright and Fair Use for Scholarly Authors
Wednesday, March 11 at 6:30-7:30pm on Zoom (registration link)
Friday, March 13 at 3-4pm on Zoom (registration link)

This workshop will cover key information about copyright, fair use, and the public domain, and look at how copyright law both complicates and facilitates scholarship. Topics will include: What kinds of works are covered by copyright? What rights are included in copyright, and who holds those rights? How long does copyright last? What is the public domain, and how do works become part of it? What is fair use, why does it exist, and how can you determine if a use is fair? How have court cases changed what qualifies as fair use, and what are the implications of those cases for scholarship?

 

Understanding Creative Commons Licenses
Wednesday, March 25 at 6:30-7:30pm on Zoom (registration link)
Friday, March 27 at 3-4pm on Zoom (registration link)

This workshop will cover key information about Creative Commons (CC) licenses—both using CC-licensed works created by others and adding a CC license to your work. Topics will include: the relationship between copyright and CC licenses; what the different CC licenses allow users to do; the difference between using a work and making a derivative work; and choosing a license for your work.

 

AI and Scholarly Publishing: A 30,000-Foot View
Wednesday, April 29 at 6:30-7:30pm on Zoom (registration link)
Friday, May 1 at 3-4pm on Zoom (registration link)

This workshop will look at how AI is changing scholarly publishing, especially journal publishing. Topics will include: publishers’ policies for authors and peer reviewers regarding the use of AI tools; complexities surrounding authors’ disclosure of use of AI tools; ways in which editors and publishers employ AI in their own workflows; how publishers are profiting from the AI boom; and how AI intersects with copyright. (Please note that this workshop is focused on the intersection of AI and scholarly publishing. It will not cover the many ways researchers can and do use AI during research activities that are not connected to the preparation of a manuscript or the publishing process.)