CUNY Academic Commons | Monica Berger | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/monicab/activity/ Activity feed for Monica Berger. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 418f38d53ef72db1abe0a0a5d59ccfdc Monica Berger replied to the topic AAAS Survey on Open Access Financing Mechanisms in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=143646 Thu, 28 Sep 2023 18:58:29 -0400 Thanks Michael. I tell classroom faculty to build the APC into their next grant or to use DOAJ to find fee-free or diamond open access journals.

]]> 38b8566e7559ddab76f9f590d998ac96 Monica Berger started the topic AAAS Survey on Open Access Financing Mechanisms in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/aaas-survey-on-open-access-financing-mechanisms/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 17:36:54 -0400 “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]

]]> 9d50c1cfcb75f9316888cd05f1bb364e Monica Berger (She/her/hers)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/945305/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 17:21:04 -0400 e4bccaa01d1b8ba021a4d610ef31be3a Monica Berger started the topic Register Now! April 8: Preprint Repositories: Taking Control of Our Work in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/openatcuny/forum/topic/register-now-april-8-preprint-repositories-taking-control-of-our-work/ Mon, 22 Mar 2021 21:07:11 -0400 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]

]]> e2726a6c19ff80a322731cd0656bd3fe Monica Berger (She/her/hers) joined the group Transformative Learning in the Humanities https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/735396/ Tue, 26 Jan 2021 23:08:34 -0500 04fdb9b8137a7a6fbd08e008948049fb Monica Berger started the topic Register now! Jan. 15: Data Librarianship in Support of Open and Reproducible Sc in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/register-now-jan-15-data-librarianship-in-support-of-open-and-reproducible-sc/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:14:46 -0500 ***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]

]]> bd7dd77e1b4fb4744b3d7c5d52e171a2 Monica Berger replied to the topic SCRT Co-Chair in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=102161 Fri, 06 Nov 2020 15:29:17 -0500 I also enthusiastically support Jo!

]]> d00a8a1070672be71daf19731f044a3e Monica Berger (She/her/hers) changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/708016/ Fri, 09 Oct 2020 15:42:31 -0400 9d110f779ba672fcd4bac525b20772cb Monica Berger replied to the topic Of Possible Interest: Two Slideshows about Citations in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=99722 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 15:04:49 -0400 Thank you for sharing your slide decks.

]]> a043f3d2fe772133340e3b902e6e6d4f Monica Berger started the topic Open Pedagogy event for librarians, Feb. 21, 3-4 pm in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/openatcuny/forum/topic/open-pedagogy-event-for-librarians-feb-21-3-4-pm/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 15:32:46 -0500 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]

]]> 84928c891d37f6b359fb0e56017d28fb Monica Berger replied to the topic Another APC Question (APCs & Awards) in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=82259 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 19:25:06 -0500 There might be some useful info on Simmons OA Directory wiki http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_publication_funds in terms of other public institutions’ policies.

]]> 80287424aebbca7bbb7d8708215e9cbc Monica Berger (She/her/hers) commented on the post, Browser Extensions for Point-of-Need Open Access, on the groupblog Open @ CUNY https://openatcuny.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2019/03/07/browser-extensions/#comment-20032 Wed, 13 Mar 2019 21:11:53 -0400 oa button has services for libraries: https://openaccessbutton.org/libraries … perhaps we should explore these for PRIMO/OneSearch.

]]> 507819d1654ee43ee8c9e89bd1159419 Monica Berger (She/her/hers) joined the group CUNY Edits https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/560100/ Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:14:22 -0500 5bac5c2bfd8e9cee8b961f56dd17900e Monica Berger (She/her/hers) joined the group LACUNY Executive Council https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/547980/ Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:05:29 -0500 518764a8455a16c3323bdc7992dc40eb Monica Berger (She/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site Open @ CUNY https://openatcuny.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2115 Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:00:27 -0500 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 […]

]]> a4a04edaa26d462f6b6582d9649966d3 Monica Berger replied to the topic Super article about Africa and Scholarly Publishing in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=56475 Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:40:50 -0400 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!

]]> c62903117d010eb507818fb3c92df553 Monica Berger started the topic Super article about Africa and Scholarly Publishing in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/super-article-about-africa-and-scholarly-publishing/ Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:05:11 -0400 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]

]]> b45e96ca6de242d34cf4b1ba38fa9ec7 Monica Berger (She/her/hers) joined the group LACUNY Professional Development Committee https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/462018/ Fri, 21 Apr 2017 20:52:04 -0400 1c3b7e7648d05fda9130be217746df14 Monica Berger replied to the topic Latin American OA event - May 31, 4pm in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=52426 Tue, 17 Jan 2017 21:59:34 -0500 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/

]]> 702eb1f58fe537c8db144f29b4faadc1 Monica Berger replied to the topic Starting to curate schol. comm. resources for PressForward in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=51405 Wed, 02 Nov 2016 16:28:18 -0400 thanks Madeline. I also read Poynder’s blog but am unfamiliar with Unlocking Research.

]]> c854ba72ed83ba9e9bef36b903075bf5 Monica Berger started the topic Starting to curate schol. comm. resources for PressForward in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/starting-to-curate-schol-comm-resources-for-pressforward/ Fri, 21 Oct 2016 22:19:49 -0400 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]

]]> 34e8a2a1cfbdf04966526dae761f9896 Monica Berger started the topic Conference travel as a barrier to knowledge development in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/openatcuny/forum/topic/conference-travel-as-a-barrier-to-knowledge-development/ Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:51:01 -0400 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

]]> 1ea0f532f038eb7342ab2b4351897c89 Monica Berger replied to the topic FTC Charges Academic Journal Publisher OMICS Group Deceived Researchers in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=49903 Wed, 07 Sep 2016 21:25:53 -0400 Oh, oh. Found some colleagues. Thanks for giving these details Jill.

]]> f7ae9e177166d2c3d9312ac88c0f450d Monica Berger replied to the topic FTC Charges Academic Journal Publisher OMICS Group Deceived Researchers in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=49888 Wed, 07 Sep 2016 14:19:40 -0400 Ah. I just checked City Tech. Glad to say no one/nothing came up.

]]> 1ee45966bc54e52b8a2dbc081eb4bc11 Monica Berger replied to the topic FTC Charges Academic Journal Publisher OMICS Group Deceived Researchers in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=49666 Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:36:39 -0400 Maybe we should work together on a one- or two page handout as well. I have one we could start with.

]]> 70173835c5cda3c17a4ee57ad5bf260e Monica Berger replied to the topic New Title for Merged Blog - We Need Your Help in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=49177 Tue, 28 Jun 2016 16:30:38 -0400 “Open Scholarship & OERs” is pretty pithy and very clear!

]]> 5099afbadf757b9ac07bf2e4f2b10f9f Monica Berger replied to the topic New Title for Merged Blog - We Need Your Help in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=49174 Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:01:28 -0400 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?

]]> eb26665747fda080338067288e6c0d6b Monica Berger (She/her/hers) joined the group Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/421453/ Tue, 24 Nov 2015 19:37:56 -0500 4c492b40767140354780ded2d442844d 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) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=43616 Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:45:16 -0400 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.

]]> 98d39c8fee37e40f51a10957cb65592c Monica Berger edited the blog post Why Be Open Access? City Tech’s Sean Scanlan Shares His Story in the group Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/10/23/why-be-open-access-city-techs-sean-scanlon-shares-his-story/ Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:24:27 -0400 nano-screengrab

For Open Access Week 2015, Ursula C. Schwerin Library (New York City College of Technology, CUNY) is highlighting our college’s own open access journal, NANO: New American Notes Online. Why did NANO’s editor and founder, Sean Scanlan, opt to make his journal open access?

NANO: New American Notes Online‘s mission is to “invigorate hu…[Read more]

]]> 98298ebfc8420d17cc35229b6548e964 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) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=43456 Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:44:35 -0400 Apologies to Sean whose name I misspelled–it should be Sean Scanlan.

]]> 39fd6807841dfa015b0be8ad3b7598af Monica Berger started the topic Why Be Open Access? City Tech’s Sean Scanlon Shares His Story in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/oapn/forum/topic/why-be-open-access-city-techs-sean-scanlon-shares-his-story/ Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:16:09 -0400 There are some great open access stories at CUNY and here’s a new one: City Tech’s Sean Scanlon tells the story of why he made his journal, New American Notes Online, open access. Read the full story here!

]]> 6314765b0ae0554cd5107e011cacbeb8 Monica Berger (She/her/hers) joined the group Library Technology Subcommittee of the CUNY Committee on Academic Technology https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/416531/ Mon, 05 Oct 2015 14:47:07 -0400 19662420164ee262fe1afe6969603fdd Monica Berger replied to the topic Creative Commons Certificate for Librarians in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=41654 Thu, 03 Sep 2015 22:13:10 -0400 Until this initiative is ready and running, CC offers this: http://schoolofopen.p2pu.org/

Does anyone know about these online courses? They look really cool.

]]> 4b7bf67551829bb9076b6676f2e294c9 Monica Berger started the topic OA Week Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/oapn/forum/topic/oa-week-wikipedia-edit-a-thon/ Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:53:54 -0400 This came across my transome today.two webcasts on how you can be involved: http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/oa-week-editathon

]]> 101e56d896a35de141473b3b4eddf8d8 Monica Berger started the topic OA Week Wikipedia Edit-a- in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/oapn/forum/topic/oa-week-wikipedia-edit-a/ Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:51:21 -0400 http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/oa-week-editathon

]]> 40f86e24aa5bd584e5173a1ecf9ccec2 Monica Berger replied to the topic OA Journals and Article Processing Charges in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=41378 Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:01:12 -0400 Gotcha. It’s about defining OA. But it’s good to understand the various ways of doing so.

]]> 84823ea283af06aafc6ffb7e5db7f707 Monica Berger started the topic OA Journals and Article Processing Charges in the forum Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/oapn/forum/topic/oa-journals-and-article-processing-charges/ Wed, 26 Aug 2015 14:02:57 -0400 Walt Crawford has been examining gold OA journals to determine how many charge article processing charges (APCs) and he concludes that 73% do not charge fees to authors. However, David Crotty states that most OA authors do publish in journals that charge APCs, whether fully gold or hybrid OA. This raises many interesting questions … My guess is…[Read more]

]]> 9cd4496fbc54e61eaec5e5600587d709 Monica Berger replied to the forum topic Bivens-Tatum on Beall in the group Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/oapn/forum/topic/bivens-tatum-on-beall/#post-19384 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:00:13 -0400 I read the original Beall piece but not the Bivens-Tatum response. It looks really interesting. Thanks!

]]> ce95fbd80e5341ee67b6a9e5b583d160 Monica Berger (She/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site JustPublics@365 http://justpublics365.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4575 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:00:37 -0400 ThumbnailMany of us may remember the Sokal hoax of 1996. Alan Sokal, a physics professor, successfully published a hoax article in Social Text in order to ridicule humanities scholarship.  More recently, last fall, John […]

]]> dc705040a3ab9466d8acc89be7234b68 Monica Berger replied to the forum topic Tapping Jeffrey Beall in the group Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/oapn/forum/topic/tapping-jeffrey-beall/#post-17559 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:57:18 -0500 Beall wrote back to me immediately agreeing that this conference and publisher are not obviously predatory but clearly low quality. He is being cautious in his approach about labeling a publisher as predatory in […]

]]> 2163ca9d8d0513fc79e91a90e7ba33f6 Monica Berger started the forum topic Tapping Jeffrey Beall in the group Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/oapn/forum/topic/tapping-jeffrey-beall/ Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:31:19 -0500 I got an email forwarded by a colleague from U. Penn’s CFPs website http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/52281 about an interdisciplinary conference that certainly smells funky to me. At a meeting of my […]

]]> 7b73e54d98b34f7a6729f999e1d91544 Monica Berger started the forum topic JAL Article on Role of Academic Administrators in OA Initiatives in the group Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/oapn/forum/topic/jal-article-on-role-of-academic-administrators-in-oa-initiatives/ Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:30:14 -0500 In the current issue of the Journal of Academic Librarianship, an article on a topic that is generally under-discussed–the role of academic administrators in the adoptions of open access initiatives. The research […]

]]> 858bacfeb022454191d358d1363b8566 Monica Berger (She/her/hers) commented on the post, Emerald Not So Sparkling Green, on the site Open Access @ CUNY http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/06/20/emerald-not-so-sparkling-green/#comment-162 Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:40:43 -0400 Here’s a message from Stevan Harnad that he sent to the SERIALST listserv:

Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:15:56 -0400
From: Stevan Harnad
Subject: Re: Message from Emerald for Librarians

*Rebecca Marsh […]

]]> e23518876d8eb855c597ea1ec6dab3b1 Monica Berger (She/her/hers) commented on the post, Emerald Not So Sparkling Green, on the site Open Access @ CUNY http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/06/20/emerald-not-so-sparkling-green/#comment-145 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:28:07 -0400 And I wonder if this policy applies retroactively. If so, I’ll have to pull one of my articles from two different repositories.

Ironically, Emerald sent me a link to this white paper today: “Facilitating access […]

]]> 82a643038290ce50790bbb454ec48de1 Monica Berger started the forum topic Shared Access Research Ecosystem, or Share in the group Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/oapn/forum/topic/shared-access-research-ecosystem-or-share/ Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:08:42 -0400 In contrast to CHORUS, SHARE is another initiative in the news. I thought this piece in the Chronicle was very interesting. A coalition of higher ed. groups including the Association of Research Libraries wants […]

]]> ccc218d696efcdd8e34f1f0381774824 Monica Berger replied to the forum topic New Article by Heather Morrison - Economics of scholarly communication in transition in the group Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/oapn/forum/topic/new-article-by-heather-morrison-economics-of-scholarly-communication-in-transition/#post-14423 Sun, 09 Jun 2013 14:44:15 -0400 I started reading it a few days ago. Bold and important, linking research to advocacy. Perhaps we should have our own debate on Green vs. Gold next OA week.

]]> 03e090388f7cb24e2bfa4b9485be554f Monica Berger replied to the forum topic EZ Proxy URL Change on Mobile Devices in the group LACUNY Mobile Technology Roundtable http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/mobile-computing-and-libraries/forum/topic/ez-proxy-url-change-on-mobile-devices/#post-14062 Mon, 13 May 2013 17:48:55 -0400 Probably not. When I used the Tor emulator to try to troubleshoot all of this earlier, it took forever for each page to load.

]]> de4d330d3780aa4d51e76952e02dea9b Monica Berger replied to the forum topic My first Deposit! in the group Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/oapn/forum/topic/my-first-deposit/#post-13292 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:14:41 -0400 Thanks Mariana. I’d be glad to put something together with Stephen and others.

]]> 4ae006cc3f597e4becdea6974061d08a Monica Berger replied to the forum topic My first Deposit! in the group Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/oapn/forum/topic/my-first-deposit/#post-13288 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:43:53 -0400 Oh! I used E-LIS. Let me try DLIST too. I actually got the idea of doing this from you. It just took a really long time for me to get around to contacting the publishers.

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