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Graduate Center Library Blog
Welcome (Back) to the Mina Rees Library!
The Mina Rees Library extends a warm welcome to all new members of the Graduate Center community, and an equally warm greeting to all […]
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Graduate Center Library Blog
15,000,000 Downloads and Counting!
This past weekend, CUNY libraries — and, more importantly, CUNY researchers — passed a major milestone: CUNY Academic Works had its 15 mil […]
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Jill Cirasella replied to the topic LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable: May lightning talksJust sent to CULIBS but resending here for anyone who might not be on CULIBS:
Just a friendly reminder that all are welcome to attend the May 28 meeting of the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable (1:00-2:30pm, on Zoom), which will feature lightning talks on various aspects of peer review. You’re welcome whether or not you’ve ever att…[Read more]
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LACUNY Services for Incarcerated People Roundtable
Alycia Sellie replied to the topic Roundtable meeting?Yes especially since in particular the PSC hasn’t offered any resources for members!
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Jill Cirasella started the topic LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable: May lightning talksThanks to everyone who voted in the poll for the date/time of the May meeting of the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable, which will primarily consist of lightning talks on various aspects of peer review. The winning time is Tuesday, May 28 at 1:00-2:30pm.
If you’d like to attend the lightning talks, please register here.
And if you think…[Read more]
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Jill Cirasella replied to the topic LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable: April meetingHi all,
Just a friendly reminder about tomorrow’s LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable meeting:
Tuesday, April 16 at noon-1pm
Zoom link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/86922301089?pwd=YTVBSUpqQy9WS3BmMEg4Zk9aTTZZdz09We’ll discuss these three chapters from the open access book Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge:
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Jill Cirasella started the topic LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable: April meetingI shared on CULIBS and just realized I hadn’t also shared here: The April meeting of the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable will be Tuesday, April 16 at noon-1pm, at this Zoom link:
https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/86922301089?pwd=YTVBSUpqQy9WS3BmMEg4Zk9aTTZZdz09
We’ll discuss these three chapters from the open access book Scholarly…[Read more]
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Jill Cirasella replied to the topic Scheduling upcoming LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable meetingsHi SCRT colleagues!
Just a friendly reminder to…
- Please vote for a meeting time (60 minutes) for April, if you haven’t done so already.
- Please vote for a meeting time (90 minutes) for May, if you haven’t done so already. At this meeting, we’ll have lightning talks about peer review, but there’s no need to be a presenter in order to…
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Jill Cirasella started the topic Scheduling upcoming LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable meetingsThere will be two more meetings of the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable this academic year: a discussion-based meeting in April (60 minutes) and a May event with lightning talks related to peer review (90 minutes).
April meeting (60 minutes, Zoom):
- If you’re interested in attending the April meeting, please complete this Calendly p…
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Jill Cirasella replied to the topic Scheduling SCRT's February MeetingReminder! We’re having a LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable meeting on Monday, February 26 @ 12-1pm.
Zoom link:
https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/86922301089?pwd=YTVBSUpqQy9WS3BmMEg4Zk9aTTZZdz09We’ll be discussing these four extremely brief chapters from the book Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge — they all look at…[Read more]
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Jill Cirasella replied to the topic Scheduling SCRT's February MeetingThanks to everyone who voted in the poll for the next LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable. There was no time that worked for everyone, but a time that worked for most is: Monday, February 26 @ 12-1pm.
Let’s meet then at this Zoom link:
https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/86922301089?pwd=YTVBSUpqQy9WS3BmMEg4Zk9aTTZZdz09As a reminder, we’ll be…[Read more]
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Jill Cirasella started the topic Upcoming webinar about 2022 OSTP Public Access MemoHi all,
A friend at Rutgers made me aware of this upcoming webinar about the origins and impacts of the 2022 OSTP Public Access Memo (i.e., the “Nelson Memo”), which expanded the pre-existing federal public access policy in a few ways, including expanding it to all federal grant-funding agencies and removing the long-standing permission for there…[Read more]
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The Graduate Center chapter of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC)
PSC Letters to CUNY Board of Trustees and Chancellor Call for Open Presidential Search
The Graduate Center Chapter of the PSC and PSC President Davis have each sent letters to the CUNY Board of Trustees and CUNY Chancellor calling for an open and inclusive search process that welcomes the whole of the Graduate Center community to select our next […] “PSC Letters to CUNY Board of Trustees and Chancellor Call for Open Presidential Search”
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Jill Cirasella replied to the topic Open Access journal publishing feesHi Rosemary,
Great question. To the best of my knowledge, none of the CUNY campuses have funds for covering article processing charges (APCs) for open access articles. I have heard stray anecdotes about individual faculty around CUNY getting the fee paid by their department or dean or provost, but I believe those stories are very much the…[Read more]
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Jill Cirasella replied to the topic Scheduling SCRT's February MeetingThanks to everyone who’s already voted in the Doodle poll for SCRT’s February meeting. If you think you’d like to attend the February meeting and haven’t yet voted, please vote by Friday. I’ll finalize the meeting time on Monday.
As a reminder, during the February meeting we’ll discuss these extremely brief chapters from Scholarly Communication…[Read more]
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Jill Cirasella started the topic Scheduling SCRT's February MeetingHi all,
In the fall, the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable met on a set schedule, which worked for many but unfortunately not everyone who wanted to attend. This semester, I’ll schedule each meeting separately, with its own poll, in the hopes of finding a good time for the fuller set of interested folks.
In February, we’ll be dis…[Read more]
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Graduate Center Library Blog
Spring Scholarly Publishing Workshops: Contracts, Copyright, and More!
This spring, the Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library is offering four online workshops about publication contracts, copyright, and r […]
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Jill Cirasella started the topic At last, notes from 12/19 SCRT meetingPhew, I finally pulled all the tabs I opened during the December 19 Scholarly Communications Roundtable meeting into our ongoing meeting notes document. Thanks to everyone who attended the meeting and shared links to articles, podcasts, webinar recordings, etc.! If you weren’t able to attend, you might want to look through the links and see if any…[Read more]
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LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable
Jill Cirasella replied to the topic LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable meeting, 1/17 @ 4-5pmHi again!
Just a reminder that the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable is meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, January 17 at 4-5pm, on Zoom:
https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/86922301089?pwd=YTVBSUpqQy9WS3BmMEg4Zk9aTTZZdz09
We’ll be joined by Nancy Foasberg, formerly of Queens College, who is now Scholarly Communication Librarian at Villanova U…[Read more]
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The Graduate Center chapter of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC)
Notes from GC Labor-Management Meeting January 2024Follow-up items from previous meetings: Science bridge funding: Interim President Brumberg is meeting later this month to pursue GTF class size issues: Brumberg will discuss with EOs Payment issues and CUNYBuy support Labor raised the changes that CUNYBuy has brought, increase in workload with new system. Brumberg is putting together groups to generate step by step instructions for working with CUNYBuy, particularly knows about issues paying honoraria. Acknowledged the issue as complex and requires re-registration at state level for anyone paid by CUNY. Future of WAC program Changes to WAC will not result in loss of financial support for students. This decision to change the system coming from CUNY Central, but the GC can generate a menu of options to fill in for the program. Brumberg will be speaking with EOs about alternative options, and changes will not be implemented until Fall 2025 [speak to your EO if you have suggestions!] Potential change in GC classification from R1 to R2 Change due to Carnegie classifications, American Council of Education. 2 metrics: # of phds the university graduates, and research spending from internal sources only. Classifications had not been updated since the 1980s. 5 million for #2 threshold. Graduate at least 70 phd on IPEDs, GC far exceeds that. #2 increased from 5 million to 50 million (!). Brumberg is trying to appeal for the GC to have its funding counted differently, across CUNY. Staff and community involvement in GC presidential search All presidential searches at CUNY have been closed for some time. This one will be closed as well. Search committee will be charged by BoT, chaired by a cuny college president–senior college in this case, 3 BoT, 3 faculty members elected, one alum (chosen by Brumberg), one GC foundation (chosen by Brumberg) and 2 student reps chosen by Matt Schoengood. Will be listening sessions for whole community with the search committee, but not candidates (those who meet with candidates will sign NDAs). Tuition reimbursement for work-related courses (and associated tax issues) Labor requests that application materials be changed to better outline tax implications for GC employees who are taking GC classes Postdoc employment status Discussion about confusion over whether these folks are tax levy funded or not (could be both, esp at ASRC), how they know about benefits and resources like library access, and funding postdocs not merely at national rates but to live in NYC. Update on food services: food services will launch on the 22nd of January. Before that on Thursday and Friday, 18th and 19th, before there will be free food. During the first and second semester there will be opportunities for feedback. Cafeteria open in the morning until 3pm. Grab and go will open later in the semester on the first floor. Portal and app for paying for food with 10% bonus for using the app. But restricted covenant that means that the dining spaces can’t use outside vendors–and this means potlucks can’t be held in these spaces (which are the rooms? 8th floor for sure, not sure which other rooms). They have a liquor license too. A bar will be opening in the found […] “Notes from GC Labor-Management Meeting January 2024”
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