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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable

Jill Cirasella wrote a new blog post Call for Applications for JLSC Reviews Editor

The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (JLSC) seeks a Reviews Co-Editor to continue and expand a program of reviewing scholarship, platforms and tools, and programs and courses whose s […]

5 years, 3 months ago

LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable

Jill Cirasella wrote a new blog post Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication: Call for Reviews of Books/Products

This call from the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication hit my inbox today, and it could be a great opportunity for scholcomm-engaged (or even just scholcomm-interested) folks at CUNY. (You can get […]

5 years, 7 months ago

LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable

Jill Cirasella wrote a new blog post CFP: The Future Is Open Access, but How Do We Get There?

Please save the date and/or submit a proposal to speak at the upcoming METRO symposium on open access (and how we want to achieve it). Proposals due August 1!

The Future Is Open Access, but How Do We Get […]

5 years, 10 months ago

LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable

Stefka Tzanova wrote a new blog post Open Science: An Academic Librarian's Perspective

Open Science is a multifaceted notion encompassing open access to publications, open research data, open source software, open collaboration, open peer review, open notebooks, open educational resources, open […]

5 years, 11 months ago

LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable

Anne Hays wrote a new blog post Considering (Non)Scholarly Communication

When I imagined myself writing a blog post for schol com, I naturally assumed I’d tackle an issue like the systemic and entrenched poverty affecting CUNY schools such as my own, which has lead to a decimated […]

6 years, 1 month ago

LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable

Jill Cirasella wrote a new blog post April 30 Event: Scholarly Communication at CUNY: Keeping Up and Looking Ahead

The LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable invites you to join us at our annual event! This event is open to all LACUNY members.

Scholarly Communication at CUNY: Keeping Up and Looking A […]

6 years, 1 month ago

LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable

Jill Cirasella wrote a new blog post Browser Extensions for Point-of-Need Open Access

How often have you run across a paywalled journal article and then either taken a detour to Google Scholar to see if there’s a freely available version or just shrugged and decided not to pursue that […]

6 years, 2 months ago

Open @ CUNY

Why is so hard to get faculty to self-submit their papers in our institutional repository? Our recruitment is moderately successful for short periods of time after we make presentations on the value of open access […]

6 years, 2 months ago

Open @ CUNY

Call for Applications: JLSC Editor-in-Chief
The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (https://jlsc-pub.org/) invites individuals or multi-member teams to apply for the position of JLSC […]

6 years, 3 months ago

Open @ CUNY

Source: 2018 in review: round-up of our top posts on open access | Impact of Social Sciences

This post originally appreared in LSE Impact […]

6 years, 4 months ago

Open @ CUNY

You probably know your copyright ABCs already. But what about your UVWs and XYZs? If you want to read and learn a lot (and I mean a lot) about US copyright history, theory, statutes, case law, and open questions […]

6 years, 6 months ago

Open @ CUNY

Impact of Social Sciences – Predatory publishers threaten to consume public research funds and undermine national academic systems – the case of Brazil

Excerpt:

“An unintended consequence of the open acc […]

6 years, 8 months ago

Open @ CUNY

Source: New to OA? Top tips from the experts | Unlocking Research

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We have a fantastic community in the Scholarly Communication space. And this is one of the clear themes that emerged from a […]

6 years, 8 months ago

Open @ CUNY

Source: Impact of Social Sciences – A variety of strategies and funding approaches are required to accelerate the transition to open access. But in all, authors are key

Original Article appeared on LSE Impact B […]

6 years, 9 months ago

Open @ CUNY

Source: Scholarly publishing is broken. Here’s how to fix it | Aeon Ideas

By Jon Tennant on Aeon, 7/18/2018

Excerpt: “The world of scholarly communication is broken. Giant, corporate publishers with r […]

6 years, 10 months ago

Open @ CUNY

Source: Using Google’s Custom Search Engine Product to Discover Scholarly Open Access and Cost-Free eBooks from Latin America

Author: Melissa Gasparotto, Assistant Director, Research Services. New York Pub […]

6 years, 10 months ago

Open @ CUNY

Source: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

There are many known issues with the structure, implementation, and support of IRs that may impact inclusion and findability of grey literature. T […]

6 years, 10 months ago

Open @ CUNY

Every summer I pick up a bunch of the books that have been sitting in my office that I’ve been intending to read and make some efforts to read them. A lot of the books in my office right now concern the […]

6 years, 10 months ago

Open @ CUNY

Source: OASPA members demonstrate another year of steady growth in CC BY article numbers for fully-OA journals

Data for this chart can be downloaded here: OASPA Members CC-BY Growth_Data to […]

6 years, 10 months ago

Open @ CUNY

Post by Steven Ovadia, LaGuardia Community College

Open Education Resources are more that just textbooks. It’s also the content associated with classes. But to do anything more complicated than text can […]

6 years, 11 months ago