CUNY Academic Commons

The LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable and Junior Faculty Research Roundtable would like to welcome all CUNY faculty, staff, and students to our joint event on community-owned preprint repositories!

Preprint Repositories: Taking Control of Our Work
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Time: 3:30-5:00pm

Public demand for scholarly research…[Read more]

GC Digital Showcase

Date: Thursday, May 13, 2021
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Location: Zoom (link to follow)

The GC Digital Showcase is an annual event featuring interdisciplinary digital scholarship produced by graduate students, digital fellows, working groups, classes, and programs across The Graduate Center, CUNY. We invite you to share y…[Read more]

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Learn about how data librarians support open scholarship!

ACRL/NY members, please join the Open Access Discussion Group for an event on data librarianship. Our speaker is Vicky Steeves.

When: January 15, 2021, 2-3:30 PM  What: Data Librarianship in Support of Open and Reproducible Scholarship In this…[Read more]

Has this been discussed here?

https://shareyourpaper.org/libraries

I got this email below today, as you may have as well, from Joe MacArthur, who also founded the Open Access Button.  I believe we have talked about that.

Beth

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Hi Beth,

After a fantastic response to our release of Shareyourpaper.org earlier this ye…[Read more]

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]

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