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Monica Berger commented on the post, Browser Extensions for Point-of-Need Open Access, on the groupblog Open @ CUNY 3 months, 1 week ago

oa button has services for libraries: https://openaccessbutton.org/libraries … perhaps we should explore these for PRIMO/OneSearch.
Monica Berger joined the group CUNY Edits 4 months ago
Monica Berger joined the group LACUNY Executive Council 6 months ago
Monica Berger wrote a new post, It’s Not Just Always About You: Thinking about Preservation and Academic Works , on the site Open @ CUNY 1 year, 6 months ago

This morning, I walked past City Tech’s showcase for faculty work. The showcase is located in a stairwell that many students and faculty use to go from the main entrance to the first floor. Most of the time, the s […]
Monica Berger replied to the topic Super article about Africa and Scholarly Publishing in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) 1 year, 11 months ago

hi Marianna: I reached out to the author on Twitter and asked him if he knew about AuthorAid. He did not but checked them out and was very enthusiastic!
Monica Berger started the topic Super article about Africa and Scholarly Publishing in the forums: LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable, Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY).

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]
Monica Berger joined the group LACUNY Professional Development Committee 2 years, 1 month ago
John Schriner and Monica Berger are now friends 2 years, 3 months ago
Monica Berger replied to the topic Latin American OA event – May 31, 4pm in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 years, 5 months ago

DOAJ’s blog has this interesting guest post on the challenges of OA publishing in Latin America: https://doajournals.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/challenges-of-the-latin-american-open-access-publishing-model/
Monica Berger replied to the topic Starting to curate schol. comm. resources for PressForward in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 years, 7 months ago

thanks Madeline. I also read Poynder’s blog but am unfamiliar with Unlocking Research.
Monica Berger started the topic Starting to curate schol. comm. resources for PressForward in the forums: LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable, Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY).

hi everyone: I missed our last meeting but thought it would be great to start our shortlist of resources related to scholarly communications for PressForward.

Here are a few sources I get RSS feeds for:
DOAJ news feed: https://doajournals.wordpress.com/
IO: In The Open http://intheopen.net/
LSE Impact of Social Sciences…[Read more]
Linda Miles and Monica Berger are now friends 2 years, 8 months ago
Monica Berger started the topic Conference travel as a barrier to knowledge development in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) 2 years, 8 months ago

Further to our discussions related to the Global South, this blog post on the LSE Impact Blog discusses how conference location affect scholars outside the U.S., Canada, U.K., and EU:

Conference travel as a barrier to knowledge development
Monica Berger replied to the topic FTC Charges Academic Journal Publisher OMICS Group Deceived Researchers in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 years, 9 months ago

Oh, oh. Found some colleagues. Thanks for giving these details Jill.
Monica Berger replied to the topic FTC Charges Academic Journal Publisher OMICS Group Deceived Researchers in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 years, 9 months ago

Ah. I just checked City Tech. Glad to say no one/nothing came up.
Monica Berger replied to the topic FTC Charges Academic Journal Publisher OMICS Group Deceived Researchers in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 years, 9 months ago

Maybe we should work together on a one- or two page handout as well. I have one we could start with.
Monica Berger replied to the topic New Title for Merged Blog – We Need Your Help in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 years, 11 months ago

“Open Scholarship & OERs” is pretty pithy and very clear!
Monica Berger replied to the topic New Title for Merged Blog – We Need Your Help in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 2 years, 11 months ago

I lean towards Beth’s suggestion. I’m really not sure how many would associate Open CUNY with open admissions but better not to take a chance. Open@CUNY would be the same difference as well, right?
Monica Berger joined the group Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) 3 years, 6 months ago
Monica Berger replied to the topic Why Be Open Access? City Tech’s Sean Scanlon Shares His Story in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) 3 years, 7 months ago

Madeline: Thanks for sharing the news about both of these publications.

For next year, it would be great if everyone can reach out to their colleagues on their campuses to get their open access stories. Using a simple email interview format proved easiest for all.

We’ll run a full story on NANO in our newsletter in the future.
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