Dear Colleagues,
Please join us in October to learn about using the Manifold digital publishing platform.
See event details below.

LUNCHTIME COMMUNITY EVENT
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Time: 12–1 PM
Location: The CUNY Graduate Center, 5th Floor, Room 5307 (feel free to bring your lunch!)
Join Lini Radhakrishnan and Cathleen Melamed, s…[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]

Dear CUNY Manifold Users,
I hope your Fall semester has started smoothly.
We will be teaching two Manifold workshops next week and we hope you will be able to join us, all are welcome!
Please see workshop details below.
 
Kind regards,
Robin
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Robin Miller, MSLIS
Open Educational Technologist | GC Digital Initiatives
The Graduate Center, CU…[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

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us in August for a series of online workshops on teaching with the CUNY Academic Commons and Manifold! See workshop details and Zoom registration links below.

Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have questions: [email protected]

Teaching with the CUNY Academic Commons Workshops

Wednesday, August 13 &…[Read more]

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/