CUNY Academic Commons

You may have seen information about this posted elsewhere including ALA’s Scholcomm.

https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/
This is a new site that launched today.  As the organizers state on their blog:

“We just launched our new campaign No free view? No review! to encourage researchers to turn down requests to review for closed-access pub…[Read more]

To our CUNY friends and colleagues,

No one will deny that the coronavirus pandemic has left all of us with a deep sense of displacement. Not only have our 25 campuses splintered into thousands of individual bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchens, but much of the family and community that we count on for support during the school year now…[Read more]

Please join ACRLNY’s Open Discussion Group for a discussion of Open Pedagogy and Academic Libraries at our meeting on Friday February 21, 3-4pm,  at the Manhattan Campus of Mercy College.

We welcome Jean Amaral, Associate Professor and Open Knowledge Librarian at BMCC, who will kick-off our gathering, and offers the following discussion pro…[Read more]

Hello all,

We are pleased to announce the Spring calendar for the Python Users’ Group (PUG for short).

The Python Users’ Group (PUG for short) is an open and informal collaborative space for experimentation and exploration with the Python programming language, where we learn, work, chat, snack and have the occasional beer. It is an…[Read more]

Hi All —

Please share widely.

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GC Digital Initiatives, in collaboration with The Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center (TLC), seeks an Open Educational Technology Specialist who will work on programming related to CUNY’s institutional investment in Open Educational Resources (OER). Beginning in 2017 and continuing into the upcomin…[Read more]

Some may have seen this article:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/10/23/what-happened-when-professor-was-accused-sharing-his-own-work-his-website?

A great look at the economics of of research.  Researchers APA swatted down from sharing their work openly suggest APA should then pay them for peer review.

You may want to add your…[Read more]

Hi All —

I’m delighted to invite you to an upcoming event on September 20 celebrating the publication of Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, which will be offered as part of the Ph.D. Program in English’s Friday Forum Series. Details below:

Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019

September 20, 2019: 4:00 PM

The Graduate Center
365…[Read more]

Dear all,

The Python Users’ Group (PUG) is back for the Spring semester. For those who haven’t been in our meetings yet, it is good to know that we promote a casual and welcoming atmosphere (usually with some snacks), where people can chat about python, work together or just hang around. We have people in different levels of expertise with lot…[Read more]

Hi Everyone –

We’ve updated to a new version of WordPress that features a powerful new editor. For more information, checkout the post below:

Gutenberg – The New WordPress Editor

Python Users’ Group (or PUG for short) invites you all for our first meeting of the year! It is going to be on October 15, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm in the GC Digital Scholarship Lab (Room 7414). We will make sure to have some pizza.

PUG is an open and informal collaborative space for experimentation and exploration with the Python programming l…[Read more]

Learn to understand and shape our future landscapes. Join inspiring participants from over 100 countries in the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Landscape Ecology. More at: https://www.edx.org/course/landscape-ecology

For more information on Landscape Ecology & landscape perspectives at CUNY, contact:
Henry N. N. Bulley,…[Read more]

Hi all,

The participants of the Digital Humanities Research Institute will be presenting lightning talks next week. Come hear from this talented group of scholars, librarians, and museum and community organization leaders on their plans to expand communities of digital humanities practice at their home institutions across the cou…[Read more]

CUNY & SUNY are having an OER Showcase featuring student and faculty panels and informational breakout sessions from across New York City and State. The showcase will take place at the Baruch College Vertical Campus Conference Center on March 23rd from 9-4:30. OER advocate Robin DeRosa will be the keynote speaker. This is an OER packed day with p…[Read more]