CUNY Academic Commons

“The APC ‘is a model that freezes inequities into place,’ said Sudip Parikh, chief executive officer of AAAS and executive publisher of the Science family of journals.”

This summary of a October 2022 report from AAAS is a quick read. The report, not shockingly, found that most authors have no source of funding for APCs (open access publishing…[Read more]

The LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable and Junior Faculty Research Roundtable would like to welcome all CUNY faculty, staff, and students to our joint event on community-owned preprint repositories!

Preprint Repositories: Taking Control of Our Work
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Time: 3:30-5:00pm

Public demand for scholarly research…[Read more]

***Please excuse cross-postings***

Learn about how data librarians support open scholarship!

ACRL/NY members, please join the Open Access Discussion Group for an event on data librarianship. Our speaker is Vicky Steeves.

When: January 15, 2021, 2-3:30 PM  What: Data Librarianship in Support of Open and Reproducible Scholarship In this…[Read more]

Please join ACRLNY’s Open Discussion Group for a discussion of Open Pedagogy and Academic Libraries at our meeting on Friday February 21, 3-4pm,  at the Manhattan Campus of Mercy College.

We welcome Jean Amaral, Associate Professor and Open Knowledge Librarian at BMCC, who will kick-off our gathering, and offers the following discussion pro…[Read more]

Interested in scholarly publishing and open access in Africa?

“Tragedy of the perishing scholar” is an editorial in a Kenya newspaper written by a Kenyan academic. Omanga explains how African academic publishing once was more robust and how low(er) quality and predatory publishing became prevalent. Best takeway: “To address this problem, it is…[Read more]