I’m very excited to announce that Michael Kirby, of Kingsborough Community College, has agreed to serve as co-chair of SCRT!  Please give him a warm welcome.

Nancy

If anyone wanted to attend right now and is frantically looking for the link.. here it is.

(And I’m assuming everyone saw Meg’s CULIBS post about the SPARC meeting, right? I have a couple other things going…[Read more]

Please note that I am still looking for a co-chair! If you think you might be interested in co-chairing, please let me know. It’s a great way to get more involved in the CUNY scholcomm community, and it’s fun to do this work with a co-…[Read more]

This is an invitation to our first spring meeting! I am looking forward to our semesterly informal discussion. All SCRT meetings this semester will be conducted online. We’re excited to meet with you and discuss what you’ve been working on, so I hope you can join us!

The meeting will take place on February 23, from 3:30-5:00. (Zo…[Read more]

You are invited to the Scholarly Communication Round Table’s annual lightning talks! We will be hosting a series of lightning talks on ethical issues in scholarly communication, including questionable research practices, privacy, peer review, and more! Anyone interested in this subject matter is welcome to attend.

We will be m…[Read more]

Lightning talks are short (5-10 minute) presentations on a specific topic. This year, our event will feature lightning talks on ethical issues in scholarly communication. Please see below for a list of topics that w…[Read more]

This is an invitation to our first fall meeting! All SCRT meetings this semester will be conducted online. I hope you can join us!

The meeting will take place on October 7, from 3:30-5:00 (Zoom Details below).

Agenda:

1. Check in: Updates (3:40-4:20)
1a. Are people planning anything for OA Week?
2. Brainstorming ideas for lightning…[Read more]

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Please join the DSS Open Research Discussion Group for our next discussion forum on Monday, March 29 at 3-4 PM (Central). Josh Bolick (University of Kansas), Will Cross…[Read more]

An interesting question has come up at my campus, and I’m hoping to get some advice from other CUNY people.

I’m trying to build some partnerships to get more student work into the QC instance of the repository, and so far it’s been challenging! One of the departments this has come up in is the Library Studies program.  Their…[Read more]

Good news! Joanna Thompson, of BMCC, has volunteered to serve as the co-chair of SCRT, with Jill stepping down.

As you know, we were not able to elect a co-chair in our first meeting of the semester, so in lieu of a real-time election, I’m sending out this email. If you’ve been harboring a secret wish to serve as co-chair, this is your…[Read more]

Results are in! The date for the next SCRT meeting is Thursday, December 3, 3:30-5:00. Mark your calendars!

At this meeting, we will hold lightning talks on citation metrics. The sign-up sheet is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R6qXl-UAc8PCdYWtWcNdXqnLTSDyj2mhLLnAecSPdAc/edit?usp=sharing  . If you’d like to participate,…[Read more]

For the late Fall semester meeting of SCRT, we wanted to hold a series of lightning talks on citation metrics. I’m excited about this event and hope you are too!

But first, we should choose a time. We’ve created a Doodle poll so that we can pick the time that’s most convenient for everyone:…[Read more]

I wrote: 3:00-5:00, but I meant to write 3:30 to 5:00. Apologies for the error!

Also, it occurs to me that it would have been clever to have included the information for actually joining the meeting. Here it is:

Meeting ID
meet.google.com/pib-xrrb-jmg(https://meet.google.com/pib-xrrb-jmg?hs=122&authuser=0)
Phone…[Read more]

This is the official announcement for the first SCRT meeting of the Fall, which will take place on October 1, from 3:00-5:00 PM.

Sadly, since we’re meeting online, we can’t provide refreshments, but we CAN promise a lively discussion!   Please see the agenda below:

• Check in — What’s happening in your scholcomm life?
• Election of a n…

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Nancy

From: Nancy M Foasberg
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 9:10 AM
To: ‘lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table@groups.commons.gc.cuny.edu’…[Read more]

Please mark your calendars! I’ll send out more information closer to the date.

Thanks,
Nancy

From: Nancy M Foasberg
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2020 4:48 PM
To: ‘lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table@groups.commons.gc.cuny.edu’…[Read more]

I haven’t had many responses to this poll yet, so please answer by tomorrow if you’d like to attend!

Thanks,
Nancy

From: Nancy M Foasberg
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 10:44 AM
To: ‘lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table@groups.commons.gc.cuny.edu’ <lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table@groups.commons.gc.cuny.edu>
Cc:…[Read more]

Happy Fall semester! I’d like to schedule our first meeting of the semester.  It’s been a while, so we have a lot to discuss!  Please note your availability here: https://doodle.com/poll/dh2xp6w4eet2wz95

I’ll send out an agenda closer to the meeting date, but there is one important item I’ll announce now: We will be electing…[Read more]

Please see below for more details about the meeting!  One more thing to keep in mind – Jill will be stepping down as co-c…[Read more]

I’m on a recently-formed, campus-wide committee focused on supporting faculty research at Queens College, chaired by our new Associate Provost for Research.  It is a VERY INTERESTING…[Read more]

This is an invitation to present at the “short presentation” portion of our December 19 (2:30-4:30 PM) meeting! We’re looking for 5-7 minute presentations on standardized and persistent identifiers for publications and researchers, such as ISBN, ISSN, DOI, ORCID, and more!

If you’re interested in presenting, please sign up…[Read more]

There’s a post that I began writing late last semester and never finished, after seeing Lane Wilkinson’s <a […]