CUNY Academic Commons | james watson | Friends Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/jameswatson/activity/friends/ Activity feed for james watson's friends. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 93452dbe925492e8e82914204e35755e Maura A. Smale (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=15529 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:00:53 -0500 Dr. Shannon Mattern Speaks at Friends of the Library Program We in the Mina Rees Library are delighted to welcome Dr. Shannon Mattern, Director of Creative Research at Metropolitan New York Library […]

]]> 3b54e1e0cde855fe28c2e533fccb7021 Beth Evans started the topic The Trump Administration On Open Access to Research (from Harvard) in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/the-trump-administration-on-open-access-to-research-from-harvard/ Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:50:00 -0400 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

]]> 5740ea7019722b935898b13e068a0593 Maura A. Smale (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=14833 Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:37:42 -0400 An Archives Center for the Library We are delighted to share that the New York City Council and Manhattan Borough President’s office has awarded funds to the Graduate Center […]

]]> 5126e3a78236384c6258e4bd58535227 Maura A. Smale (she/her) joined the group Critical AI Literacy Interest Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1080943/ Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:27:58 -0400 c5d54436f6b9ea3ad5f74d6e9e1924d1 Beth Evans started the topic RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/rfk-jr-says-he-may-bar-scientists-from-publishing-in-top-medical-journals/ Wed, 28 May 2025 19:43:52 -0400 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/

]]> 8e928f43f8e22b32c1e9595272da2f3d Maura A. Smale (she/her) commented on the post, Hosting Migration Complete!, on the site CUNY Academic Commons News https://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/01/17/hosting-migration-complete/#comment-79101 Sat, 18 Jan 2025 17:58:00 -0500 Congrats Commons team, and thanks for all of your hard work! Really thrilled that we’re all working with you and your Reclaim folks too, Jim.

]]> 04c5612203b72d48bd59572e86e36bf3 Beth Evans replied to the topic CDL Lending/Recent Internet Archive Court Decision in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=170335 Fri, 13 Sep 2024 21:34:47 -0400 Good points, Jill.

Pulling out the positives the AA sees in the ruling for a shorter read here:

1.The Court rejected the district court’s conclusion that IA was engaged in commercial use when looking at the first factor of fair use. The publishers argued IA’s lending of digitized books was commercial in nature because IA received a few thou…[Read more]

]]> 4d370455baff1fe252c762856ea8c17e Maura A. Smale (she/her) and Katrina Hannan (she/her) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/987773/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:18:22 -0400 18341565aab8e2f4904eea71abb8f752 Maura A. Smale (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=14077 Fri, 22 Mar 2024 01:29:35 -0400 We're Hiring a Critical Pedagogy Librarian! We’re delighted to be hiring a tenure-track Critical Pedagogy Librarian at the Instructor or Assistant Professor rank. Please share far and […]

]]> 240adbfe462bed41d74412495950682a Maura A. Smale (she/her) changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/981492/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 21:45:07 -0500 aba8803011d3aedce89f86489b3efa6b Beth Evans started the topic Hijacked Journals - Another version of predatory journals in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/hijacked-journals-another-version-of-predatory-journals/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 12:50:31 -0500 In case you missed this in the Library Link of the Day

New to me.

https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12481
The ‘hijacking’ of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems: Implications for the information systems community [Information Systems Journal]

Beth

]]> d2a9df937d5031df9767cf65ed748f26 Beth Evans replied to the topic 11/15 SCRT Meeting Notes in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=145738 Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:20:42 -0500 Thanks for these notes Jill. Sorry I missed the meeting.

The book does look amazing!

I think all of the chapters in the section Intersections look compelling for future discussions.

Thanks for an excellent suggestion.

 

Beth

 

 

]]> 74697c7409259ec75ab5c0cc26776c6c Beth Evans started the topic ICYMI: Upcoming Webinar on Author Rights Sponsored by Max Planck Digital Library in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/icymi-upcoming-webinar-on-author-rights-sponsored-by-max-planck-digital-library/ Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:46:06 -0400  

Nov 2, 2023 8:30 AM

Ana Valente

** with apologies for cross-posting **

One of the key points coming out of the 16th Berlin Open Access Conference was the crucial need to fully enable author choice and author rights when publishing their research open access:

We strongly support retention of copyright and all rights therein by authors. Open…[Read more]

]]> 150b6611a9df7cf5254f35283d308eb4 Beth Evans started the topic An invitation from IUB to OA Week Keynotes touching on AI and science publishing in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/an-invitation-from-iub-to-oa-week-keynotes-touching-on-ai-and-science-publishing/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:23:41 -0400 ICYMI

Hi All,
Just a reminder that Indiana University Libraries invites you to remotely attend our Open Access Week keynotes on Friday, October 27th:

[Read more]

]]> c44a7a65845b8f980fc6af95830da03f Beth Evans replied to the topic 10/17 Meeting Notes in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=144521 Thu, 19 Oct 2023 23:03:30 -0400 Looks good, Jill!  Looking forward to the November meet-up.

Beth

]]> b65b09832abee59d67a66f99b577b0cc Beth Evans replied to the topic 10/17 Meeting Notes in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=144386 Wed, 18 Oct 2023 01:00:09 -0400 Thanks, Jill. Sorry I had to miss the meeting.

And thanks, Monica, for the article.

On peer review, here are a couple of recent articles that caught my…[Read more]

]]> ee09c0fcd82c0619e80fccaf54a2e082 Beth Evans started the topic Who’s Afraid of Open Science? in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/whos-afraid-of-open-science/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:55:28 -0400 https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/10/04/call-open-debate-open-science-opinion

“… in July, the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives released language in a spending bill that, if passed into law, would effectively freeze the Nelson memo for a year by banning the use of funds to implement the…[Read more]

]]> ad3a4678292478b0bf9063a45ef9e764 Beth Evans started the topic American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/american-chemical-society-offers-a-new-twist-on-the-article-processing-charge/ Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:33:07 -0400

The American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge: An Interview with Sarah Tegen

ACS is proposing what they call Author Development Charges (ADC’s).  These are fees promised to the publisher, prior to peer review, that will allow the author to buy-out the embargo from…[Read more]

]]> c7bfbee9d3b23dcb6a00ba022dfb3999 Maura A. Smale (she/her) uploaded CCL Meeting Minutes June 2023 to CUNY Council of Chief Librarians: Agendas & Minutes https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/933305/ Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:39:42 -0400 f9d960332b1ff7c4f7376bcede2836f0 Maura A. Smale (she/her) uploaded CCL Meeting Minutes May 2023 to CUNY Council of Chief Librarians: Agendas & Minutes https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/933304/ Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:39:13 -0400 6d26169390e1b624d569231d128753a1 Maura A. Smale (she/her) uploaded CCL Meeting Minutes April 2023 to CUNY Council of Chief Librarians: Agendas & Minutes https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/933303/ Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:38:51 -0400 1aef063b765ea0f4d0a7b8d2b26fc9fe Maura A. Smale (she/her) uploaded CCL Meeting Minutes March 2023 to CUNY Council of Chief Librarians: Agendas & Minutes https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/933302/ Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:38:20 -0400 316dd970abd6e28de9bebeee96c3ee87 Beth Evans commented on the post, The complaint committee, on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2023/07/29/the-complaint-committee/#comment-303534 Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:47:49 -0400 Good luck to you, Robin.

]]> e280747cf9bf50a0fceaaaebcac1192f Maura A. Smale started the topic Job posting: Assoc Director, Digital Humanities Center, Barnard College in the forum Digital Humanities Initiative https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cunydhi/forum/topic/job-posting-assoc-director-digital-humanities-center-barnard-college/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:25:18 -0400 Apply here: https://barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Staff/job/Associate-Director-or-Senior-Associate-Director–Digital-Humanities-Center_JR2653

 

Reporting to the Faculty Director of the Digital Humanities Center (DHC), this position provides leadership and coordination in the strategic planning and implementation of policies, systems,…[Read more]

]]> f4e9706d2b8c4c02b1c9cd83efd86468 Maura A. Smale (she/her) wrote a new blog post Video Game Challenge from the Library of Congress in the group CUNY Games Network https://games.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2023/07/20/video-game-challenge-from-the-library-of-congress/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:14:58 -0400 Video Game Challenge from the Library of Congress The Library of Congress has announced a video game challenge for civic engagement, with prizes! The deadline for entries is November 27, 2023, […]

]]> fba67852c14576653d93d056c0e44dea Beth Evans commented on the post, Stage 2, on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2023/07/03/stage-2/#comment-299422 Mon, 03 Jul 2023 23:16:31 -0400 Glad you are improving. Bit by bit.

]]> 4025077514f4257d4257149224b11a0f Maura A. Smale (she/her) uploaded CCL Minutes May 2021 to CUNY Council of Chief Librarians: Agendas & Minutes https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/925291/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:41:21 -0400 c45b4ec930dc380b3d46c2ed3da9963b Maura A. Smale (she/her) uploaded CCL Minutes April 2021 to CUNY Council of Chief Librarians: Agendas & Minutes https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/925290/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:40:21 -0400 b240f5230df9b5b6a209296ed7600c97 Maura A. Smale (she/her) uploaded CCL Minutes March 2021 to CUNY Council of Chief Librarians: Agendas & Minutes https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/925289/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:39:20 -0400 b635f020d85c41c9695d01b06c0f0d0d Maura A. Smale (she/her) uploaded CCL Library Fines Resolution to CUNY Council of Chief Librarians: Agendas & Minutes https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/925288/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:35:05 -0400 Final version of the CCL Library Fines Resolution crafted with input from task forces, committees, colleauges-at-large, and the CCL.

]]> b862e3839561a2ec4633ee3ef769267f Maura A. Smale (she/her) uploaded CCL NTA 2020 Best Practices to CUNY Council of Chief Librarians: Agendas & Minutes https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/925287/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:34:47 -0400 CCL NTA 2020 Best Practices

]]> ecb128eed8887402b6629069e2428bd5 Maura A. Smale (she/her) uploaded CCL Sept 2021 Minutes to CUNY Council of Chief Librarians: Agendas & Minutes https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/925286/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:34:08 -0400 15d2297f5d5e3a396f205843b1dc21a7 Maura A. Smale (she/her) uploaded CCL Oct 2021 Minutes to CUNY Council of Chief Librarians: Agendas & Minutes https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/925285/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:33:57 -0400 740b04ba1b7fef1a625c27aaccd80116 Maura A. Smale (she/her) uploaded CCL Nov 2021 Minutes to CUNY Council of Chief Librarians: Agendas & Minutes https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/925284/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:33:45 -0400 6b054c81e257550610027247bc71b3d0 Beth Evans started the topic Can the E.U. Make a ‘Parallel Publishing System’ Work? in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/can-the-e-u-make-a-parallel-publishing-system-work/ Fri, 19 May 2023 19:59:07 -0400 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/2023/05/19/can-eu-make-parallel-publishing-system-work

 

]]> bd14763bb4f8b9f7e27b3f88d43cdf70 Beth Evans started the topic Scholarly Communication in Crisis: Research Integrity and Open Scholar in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/scholarly-communication-in-crisis-research-integrity-and-open-scholar/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 01:11:13 -0400  

I highly recommend this webinar if you missed the event. It includes some fascinating suggestions for peer review.

Webinar – Scholarly Communication in Crisis: Research Integrity and Open Scholarship

 

Beth

]]> 99b2aadf38529d00a2a2a62198b9df7a Beth Evans started the topic Forum: How do we make accessible research papers a reality? in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/forum-how-do-we-make-accessible-research-papers-a-reality/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 19:39:44 -0400 ICYMI on CULIBS, shared thanks to Adina Mulliken, accessibility librarian at Hunter.

Forum: How do we make accessible research papers a reality?

https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessibility_forum.html

Beth

]]> 78e52645935b56576544249cb27a82a7 Maura A. Smale (she/her) joined the group Digital and Remote Ethnography https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/878145/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 23:09:34 -0500 a9b2a7cf544dce18e46da49054d230a9 Maura A. Smale (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=13392 Tue, 29 Nov 2022 23:05:18 -0500 We’re delighted to be hiring a tenure-track Electronic Resources Librarian at the Instructor or Assistant Professor rank. Please share far and wide, and consider applying!

Review of applications begins on […]

]]> ac23833728eb6229683e4e2651487abb Maura A. Smale (she/her) joined the group The PublicsLab at the Graduate Center https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/868476/ Thu, 13 Oct 2022 19:42:27 -0400 07d45b75c34323e85d3871f8126b1faf Maura A. Smale (she/her) changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/866511/ Mon, 03 Oct 2022 21:21:09 -0400 45f7d5a2b16555274dcfa103676a7f72 Beth Evans replied to the topic New SCRT Co-Chair -- Michael Kirby in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=131837 Wed, 28 Sep 2022 21:44:41 -0400 Thanks for the good news, Nancy.

Hi Michael. So glad your will be our new co-chair. Welcome to a really important and interesting committee.

Looking forward to all the planning and programming ahead of us this year.

Beth

Beth Evans
Brooklyn College Library

]]> bcf8894ad519f19edc5b2db9d0c4d39c Beth Evans replied to the topic New (and improved!) federal public access policy announced in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=130992 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 17:48:55 -0400 Fantastic news, Jill. Thanks for sharing.

Beth

]]> d2b05f93f741763869cc18e03cec176d Maura A. Smale (she/her) wrote a new post on the site Graduate Center Library Blog https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=13208 Tue, 23 Aug 2022 19:10:25 -0400 Welcome to the Mina Rees Library! We’re excited to work with you, and we can be reached in a variety of ways. If you have a general or research question, email us at – library@gc.cuny.edu. We’re also available via […]

]]> bb63107cfb3528dd78a49bdeaeb206e3 Beth Evans started the topic Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/pearson-plans-to-sell-its-textbooks-as-nfts/ Wed, 03 Aug 2022 21:30:45 -0400 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/02/pearson-plans-to-sell-its-textbooks-as-nfts

This has me thinking more and more about OERs.

Here is an earlier article on NFTs for books in general, puts a mostly positive spin on the trend:

NFTs for Books: How This Emerging Tech Can Reward Authors & Readers

Not a positive for libraries, though. More on that here:…[Read more]

]]> 409fa6a9aac1a00644682ee1aa6cb5e5 Maura A. Smale (she/her) and Melissa Longhi are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/852027/ Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:37:15 -0400 cf35a4b9f2c9be458ffe6c310a4a66f6 Maura A. Smale (she/her) and Michael W. Handis are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/851971/ Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:22:03 -0400 ab4f2c83035e672ff90023dc50516506 Maura A. Smale (she/her) and Elvis Bakaitis (they/them) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/851936/ Wed, 20 Jul 2022 20:39:08 -0400 24ca21f4f7b81704c558eb161a0abb6e Maura A. Smale (she/her)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/851146/ Sat, 16 Jul 2022 22:48:34 -0400 2c899eb6fd3ebe8fa836e1a64f405474 Beth Evans started the topic Academia, at it again, with bizarre connections in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/academia-at-it-again-with-bizarre-connections/ Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:14:23 -0400 I clicked on an email link from Academia.edu to claim authorship of a poster Nanette Johnson and I created for a scholarly communication conference in 2018.

I then visited the Academia site and saw that the title for our poster in the Academia metadata showed the pdf for a paper “Establishment and verification of nonlinear bolthead connection…[Read more]

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