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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 […]

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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable

Beth Evans started the topic The Trump Administration On Open Access to Research (from Harvard)

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

10 months ago

Graduate Center Library Blog

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 […]

12 months ago

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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable

Beth Evans started the topic RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals

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/

1 year ago

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Maura A. Smale (she/her) commented on the post, Hosting Migration Complete!

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.

1 year, 5 months ago

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1 year, 5 months ago

LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable

Julia Furay replied to the topic CDL Lending/Recent Internet Archive Court Decision

Hi, I can share info about Kingsborough’s CDL program (now abruptly put on hold because of the law case, though according to Beth perhaps we can continue?). Our focus for this program was on textbooks which do NOT currently have an ebook available, which is what Beth mentions as well. We have funding for etextbooks and would prefer to purchase…[Read more]

1 year, 9 months ago

LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable

Beth Evans replied to the topic CDL Lending/Recent Internet Archive Court Decision

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]

1 year, 9 months ago

Maura A. Smale (she/her) and Katrina Hannan (she/her) are now friends

2 years, 2 months ago

Graduate Center Library Blog

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 […]

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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable

Beth Evans started the topic Hijacked Journals - Another version of predatory journals

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

2 years, 6 months ago

LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable

Beth Evans replied to the topic 11/15 SCRT Meeting Notes

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

2 years, 7 months ago

LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable

Beth Evans started the topic ICYMI: Upcoming Webinar on Author Rights Sponsored by Max Planck Digital Library

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]

2 years, 7 months ago