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]

Our thirteenth Wiki-Wednesday Drop-In is tomorrow on May 27, at 11 am! Please register on Zoom .

And also this month’s CUNYpedia Focus, representing a fruitful on-wiki collaboration springing from the CUNYverse. In this case, our focus is on the Coney Island Creek, developed by students as part of a Brooklyn College ecology cla…[Read more]

Our twelfth Wiki-Wednesday Drop-In is this week on April  29, at 11 am! Please register on Zoom .

And also this month’s CUNYpedia Focus, representing a fruitful on-wiki collaboration springing from the CUNYverse. In this case, our focus is on the hormone Kallidin, and its role in diabetes and Parkinson’s, an article written by a pair of st…[Read more]

Join us tomorrow in Downtown Brooklyn, drop-in from 12:30-4pm!

Archives+CUNY+Wikipedia: an editathon at City Tech

On Wikipedia itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Archives+CUNY+Wikipedia

Looking forward to see whoever can stop by, feel free to bring friends/colleagues/students!

Our eleventh Wiki-Wednesday Drop-In this week (tomorrow) on March 25, at 11 am! Please register on Zoom .

Deadline is April 7 for our Summer 2026 Archives & Open Knowledge Faculty Fellowship!:
https://cunyarchives.commons.gc.cuny.edu/summer-2026-archives-open-knowledge-faculty-fellowship/

Rescheduled Wikipedia Day is this Saturday at City Tech…[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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Our tenth Wiki-Wednesday Drop-In this week on February 25, at 11 am! Please register on Zoom .

Announcing our Summer 2026 Archives & Open Knowledge Faculty Fellowship!:

https://cunyarchives.commons.gc.cuny.edu/summer-2026-archives-open-knowledge-faculty-fellowship/

And also this month’s CUNYpedia Focus, representing a fruitful on-wiki col…[Read more]

This will be held on Feb 19 & 26 at Baruch, if you or any CUNY staff or students you know might like to join:

Black History Month Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon

And if you or your friends missed the Wikipedia Day deadline last time, you have until Feb 20 to sign up for the new date of Sat March 28 at…[Read more]

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]

Our ninth Wiki-Wednesday Drop-In this week on January 28, at 11 am! Please register on Zoom .

Happy Wikipedia Day this month, for the project’s 25th anniversary, and though we were snowed out yesterday, you can expect a full conference and fabulous cake at City Tech later in the spring (TBA)!

And to get ready for Wikipedia Day at its new date…[Read more]

Registration for Sunday’s big birthday at CUNY City Tech closes at 8pm tonight, so register here ASAP:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wikipedia-day-nyc-2026-tickets-1971392165034

And here is the action-packed agenda for Sunday:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2026#Agenda

Thanks,

Richard

Hi All,

We are proud to share our next Quarterly Brief, providing more details on Wikimedian-in-Residence Richard Knipel’s and the wider CUNY community’s ongoing wiki-work — and covering mid-October to December 2025.

https://wircuny.commons.gc.cuny.edu/quarterly-brief-mid-october-to-december-2025/

If you or your colleagues would like support…[Read more]

Hi All,

Just a quick update on the Wikimedian-in-Residence project for 2025:

2025 by the Numbers – CUNY Wikimedian-in-Residence

In 2025, 12 classes featured Wikimedia-based projects, and 222 student and Associate Archivist editors contributed substantially to public knowledge — completing 3.1K edits, adding 182K+ words and 1.6K+ references, a…[Read more]

Hi All –

Registration is now open for Wikipedia Date on 1/25/26–join our CUNY Newmark Wikimedian-in-Residence for keynote speeches, panel talks, edit-a-thons, family fun activities, swag, and more!  

Link to register on Eventbrite: https://tinyurl.com/m8sm8emf 

Happy holiday season, everyone!

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Hi All,

Save the date for Wikipedia Day! On January 25, 2026, CUNY’s City Tech in Downtown Brooklyn will partner with Wikimedia NYC to host Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary party (and celebrate the volunteer community of editors that has helped to make it the ninth most-visited site in the world)!

Please feel free to share w…[Read more]