I know there have been a ton of great webinars to choose from lately thanks to Open Access Week, but this one next Tuesday (3pm ET) seems especially fun:

Scholarly Communication Horror Stories

Join us for a virtual Halloween event where authors share real-life tales of academic publishing nightmares, data management mishaps, and copyright…[Read more]

Hiding in my email was this announcement of an upcoming series of webinars about AI and copyright. I think the line-up looks quite exciting!

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This fall semester, OCEAN and Authors Alliance are co-hosting a full Discussion Series on AI and its implications for professionals working in libraries, archives and museums and for authors, artists,…[Read more]

Thanks to everyone who voted in the scheduling poll for the first LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable. The winning time is Monday, September 29 at 2-3pm. (Sincere apologies to those for whom this time doesn’t work.)

The meeting will be on Zoom — please register for the meeting link.

Tentative meeting agenda:

• Elect roundtable co-…

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Apologies for this test message, but I want to see if messages to this forum are still going out as email notifications. I sent a message yesterday, and it didn’t seem to be delivered via email…

If you get this, here’s the message from yesterday, about the GC library’s Fall 2025 scholarly publishing workshops.

Thanks,
Jill

The Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library invites you to its upcoming online workshops about scholarly publishing and research evaluation. All members of the CUNY community are welcome, regardless of campus. The workshops are especially well suited to faculty, graduate students, administrators, and others engaged in the discovery, production, or e…[Read more]

I just came across this site. It may already be familiar to you.

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University runs the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP). HOAP includes the entry “The Trump administrations on open access to research.” The site includes references to news on a nearly daily basis. Well worth a look.

Beth

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said his agency will create “in-house” publications instead.
GIft link (should get you behind paywall)

https://wapo.st/43sc0Bz

Link if you subscribe

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/28/rfk-jr-ban-journals-lancet-jama/

Thanks to everyone who voted in the scheduling poll for the final 2024-25 meeting of the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable. The winning time is Monday, June 2 at 10:00-11:30am.

This session will feature lightning talks on a variety of scholarly communication topics. If you’d like to attend, please register here.

Also, please consider g…[Read more]

Thanks to everyone who voted in the scheduling poll for the final 2024-25 meeting of the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable. The winning time is Monday, June 2 at 10:00-11:30am.
This session will feature lightning talks on a variety of scholarly communication topics. If you’d like to attend, please register here.
Also, please consider g…[Read more]

The three workshops announced below may be of interest to members of this group!

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SPARC is excited to announce a second round of our Open Access 101 series, building on the significant response from the community to the first series hosted last year. These upcoming OA 101 sessions will deepen the conversation around key topics related to o…[Read more]

Hi all – Sharing this announcement for the Open Divide Lecture Series, “a year-long exploration of the challenges, contradictions, and evolving landscape of Open Access and scholarly publishing.” One event per month for a whole year!

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Dear colleagues,

We are excited to announce the Open Divide Lecture Series (2025–2026, online), a y…[Read more]

Hello! I’m sharing the announcement below for anyone who may not have seen the posting on CULIBS:

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This spring, the Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library is offering four online workshops about publication contracts, copyright, and related topics. (Each workshop will occur twice: once on a Wednesday evening and once on a Friday morning.) All m…[Read more]