There’s a nonstop firehose of articles about scholarly publishing, and we can’t read/share them all, but this seems like a very important heads-up that the Trump administration may repeal the Nelson OSTP memo (which instructed all federal agencies to develop policies ensuring immediate public access to publications and data resulting from funded…[Read more]

JITP Themed Issue 29 

Rethinking Making in the Digital Humanities: Critiques and Pedagogies That Transform

Issue Editors:

Nikki Fragala Barnes, University of Central Florida

Asma Neblett, CUNY Graduate Center

Kush Patel, Manipal Academy of Higher Education

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) call for Themed Issue 29…[Read more]

Hi all,   Exciting news I think– Yesterday I learned- from Justin Tricarico in Hunter’s Digital Learning- that EBSCO offers a button to request an accessible copy of not only e-books but also journal articles.  And, EBSCO returned the article Justin tried with pretty good quality tagging within a business day!!!  I think this will be an ama…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

LACUNY Scholarly Communication Roundtable is organizing a spring discussion event. This event will focus on one of two recent publications on open access publishing:

Publishing Beyond the Market Open Access, Care, and the Commons by Samuel A. Moore

or

Achieving Global Open Access The Need for Scientific, Epistemic and…

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This spring, the Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library is offering three online workshops related to scholarly publishing. (Each workshop will occur twice: once on a Wednesday evening and once on a Friday afternoon.) All members of the CUNY community are welcome, regardless of campus. The workshops are especially well suited to faculty, graduate s…[Read more]

Join the JITP Editorial Collective

Call for Participation

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy seeks new members to join our Editorial Collective. We invite applications from graduate students, scholars, and practitioners in all fields who critically and creatively engage with digital technology in their teaching, learning, and…[Read more]

The Journal of Basic Writing is pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 44, Iss. 1 on the WAC Clearinghouse: https://wacclearinghouse.org/jbw/v44n1/

This issue brings together four pieces that reflect on overlapping questions of writing pedagogy, curricular advocacy, and program administration:

1. Emily K. Suh and Bethany E. Sweeney analyze…[Read more]

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]