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Interested in scholarly publishing and open access in Africa?

“Tragedy of the perishing scholar” is an editorial in a Kenya newspaper written by a Kenyan academic. Omanga explains how African academic publishing once was more robust and how low(er) quality and predatory publishing became prevalent. Best takeway: “To address this problem, it is…[Read more]

SAVE THE DATE:

The LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable invites you to our second annual webinar on Global Open Access:

<strong>Date: June 7, 2017

Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. (EST)</strong>

Instructions on signing in to webinar will follow soon.

<strong>OPEN ACCESS in AFRICA</strong>

Learn about open access and issues that…[Read more]

ACERT, Hunter’s Center for Teaching and Learning, is pleased to host three CUNY colleagues whose work embodies the spirit of <em>openness</em> in scholarship and teaching. “Open” is a multivalent and emerging concept in scholarship and teaching. Openness, in this sense might point to: authors’ protection of readers’ right to share work via a Creat…[Read more]

Save the date for:
<strong>Envisioning New Open Access Journal Models:</strong>
<strong> Editors and Librarians in Conversation</strong>
Friday, April 28, 3-5pm

We're in the process of finalizing the location, but wanted to get this on your calendars. We'll be having a conversation and brainstorming session on future models for OA journals…[Read more]

ACERT, Hunter's Center for Teaching and Learning, is pleased to host three CUNY colleagues whose work embodies the spirit of <i>openness</i> in scholarship and teaching. “Open” is a multivalent and emerging concept in scholarship and teaching. Openness, in this sense might point to: authors’ protection of readers’ right to share work via a Creativ…[Read more]

Interested in working on the Open@CUNY blog? https://openatcuny.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

The LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable is seeking volunteers to organize content (using PressForward) and improve the look and feel of this new WordPress blog –which concerns open access, scholarly communications, OER and related topics. This will be a…[Read more]

hi everyone: I missed our last meeting but thought it would be great to start our shortlist of resources related to scholarly communications for PressForward.

Here are a few sources I get RSS feeds for:
DOAJ news feed: https://doajournals.wordpress.com/
IO: In The Open http://intheopen.net/
LSE Impact of Social Sciences…[Read more]

Further to our discussions related to the Global South, this blog post on the LSE Impact Blog discusses how conference location affect scholars outside the U.S., Canada, U.K., and EU:

Conference travel as a barrier to knowledge development

Couldn't make the morning Introduction to PressForward workshop this Friday? Consider attending the afternoon session from 1-3pm. The morning intro session is full up, so we reworked the afternoon to include a second intro session.

For those who can't get enough of PressForward, we'll be having a Train the Trainers/Community Building and…[Read more]

<strong>PressForward Workshops – A tool for community building and knowledge sharing
September 23 10am-12pm, 1pm-5pm
Graduate Center Room 9204</strong>

<em>Co-sponsored by the Library Association of CUNY, the Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center, the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, and the Borough of Manhattan Community C…[Read more]