CUNY Academic Commons | nirons | Friends Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/nirons/activity/friends/ Activity feed for nirons's friends. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 d682f7b9129ff07f054eb27c641c060e Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) and Stephen Zweibel are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1171517/ Fri, 15 May 2026 15:13:39 -0400 9614d14c3449028b31d820760d8f19ab Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) created the site CV+Projects https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1138701/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:14:42 -0500 fdfd55d107e7480b81a2fb62f7761105 Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) and Travis Kim (he/him/his) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1118463/ Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:52:58 -0500 4567a6db81cc6bdc4ef6ff972db8b8d7 Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) and Jasmina Sinanovic (they/them) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1117073/ Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:04:00 -0500 aaff5255abfb6c387858dc7a60fd9e5b Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) and Debarati Biswas (she/her) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1115983/ Sat, 08 Nov 2025 22:11:45 -0500 8edd0e5612ea55e8d2753869f4893f66 Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) and David Engelman (he/him) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1093739/ Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:23:11 -0400 adcbd633ac5d5fe2df097a151641d6e1 Ann Matsuuchi started the topic Indoor Voices podcast, “Wikipedia is the CUNY of the Internet” in the forum CUNY Edits https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cuny-edits/forum/topic/indoor-voices-podcast-wikipedia-is-the-cuny-of-the-internet/ Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:33:57 -0400 Check out this great conversation with Natalie Milbrodt and Richard Knipel about the CUNY Wikipedian-in-Residence and Cultivating Archives & Institutional Memory. Indoor Voices is a longstanding CUNY podcast run by Kathleen Collins:  https://indoorvoicespodcast.com/2025/08/29/episode-112-wikipedia-is-the-cuny-of-the-internet/

]]> 3b54e1e0cde855fe28c2e533fccb7021 Beth Evans started the topic The Trump Administration On Open Access to Research (from Harvard) in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/the-trump-administration-on-open-access-to-research-from-harvard/ Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:50:00 -0400 I just came across this site. It may already be familiar to you.

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University runs the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP). HOAP includes the entry “The Trump administrations on open access to research.” The site includes references to news on a nearly daily basis. Well worth a look.

Beth

]]> 3522eb089609c58f2d34a115e73b635f Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) and Carl R. Andrews are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1080449/ Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:29:44 -0400 c5d54436f6b9ea3ad5f74d6e9e1924d1 Beth Evans started the topic RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/rfk-jr-says-he-may-bar-scientists-from-publishing-in-top-medical-journals/ Wed, 28 May 2025 19:43:52 -0400 Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said his agency will create “in-house” publications instead.
GIft link (should get you behind paywall)

https://wapo.st/43sc0Bz

Link if you subscribe

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/28/rfk-jr-ban-journals-lancet-jama/

]]> df56a6c4826830e2d907bf198487d4a5 Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) and Anthony Wheeler (he/him) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1072297/ Mon, 12 May 2025 20:02:29 -0400 5a16c4f57da368733dfd07eadcfa1545 Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) joined the group Critical AI Literacy Interest Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1072209/ Mon, 12 May 2025 18:15:54 -0400 c3208c27deaa31b2e28886ccb52873ed Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) joined the group Don’t AI Alone – Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1072147/ Mon, 12 May 2025 17:05:26 -0400 0b0861972d39b62f7e32fcc44be749ea Ann Matsuuchi started the topic P/T role, Newmark+CUNY Wikimedia Documentarian in the forum CUNY Edits https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cuny-edits/forum/topic/p-t-role-newmarkcuny-wikimedia-documentarian/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 01:30:01 -0500 https://www.rfcuny.org/careers/postings?pvnID=VA-2501-006680

Job Title: Newmark CUNY Wikimedia Documentarian

Status: Part Time

Pay Range $48.00

Hour(s) a week: 10.00

Closing Date – Mar 28, 2025 (Or Until Filled)

General Description

The Office of Library Services (OLS) at the CUNY Central Office provides centralized services to all 31 CUNY…[Read more]

]]> 04c5612203b72d48bd59572e86e36bf3 Beth Evans replied to the topic CDL Lending/Recent Internet Archive Court Decision in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=170335 Fri, 13 Sep 2024 21:34:47 -0400 Good points, Jill.

Pulling out the positives the AA sees in the ruling for a shorter read here:

1.The Court rejected the district court’s conclusion that IA was engaged in commercial use when looking at the first factor of fair use. The publishers argued IA’s lending of digitized books was commercial in nature because IA received a few thou…[Read more]

]]> 23c5474cb400bb44ae7a347e466ff256 Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) joined the group The CCPG: The CUNY Comix Programming Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/990744/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:08:30 -0400 fa3b6f52ff6355bfd815b2043c3ac944 Ann Matsuuchi (she/they)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/974707/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:53:55 -0500 8df990f6c593de17de288012c64b6032 Ann Matsuuchi (she/they)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/965753/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:01:05 -0500 44409ea0a811befd11238d4f791c8621 Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) joined the group AI-Assisted Teaching & Learning https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/965697/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:59:50 -0500 aba8803011d3aedce89f86489b3efa6b Beth Evans started the topic Hijacked Journals - Another version of predatory journals in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/hijacked-journals-another-version-of-predatory-journals/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 12:50:31 -0500 In case you missed this in the Library Link of the Day

New to me.

https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12481
The ‘hijacking’ of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems: Implications for the information systems community [Information Systems Journal]

Beth

]]> 27966289cee45274293268b4b4b70b48 Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) and Natalie E Willens (they/them) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/960903/ Mon, 04 Dec 2023 20:52:21 -0500 d2a9df937d5031df9767cf65ed748f26 Beth Evans replied to the topic 11/15 SCRT Meeting Notes in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=145738 Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:20:42 -0500 Thanks for these notes Jill. Sorry I missed the meeting.

The book does look amazing!

I think all of the chapters in the section Intersections look compelling for future discussions.

Thanks for an excellent suggestion.

 

Beth

 

 

]]> 9c6d42f925cc034da9717cdcba553395 Ann Matsuuchi started the topic Job Posting: Wikimedia NYC Executive Director, NYC+Hybrid in the forum CUNY Edits https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cuny-edits/forum/topic/job-posting-wikimedia-nyc-executive-director-nychybrid/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:33:03 -0500 Wikimedia NYC, a 501(c)(3) non-profit supporting Wikipedia and related projects in the metro area, is hiring our founding Executive Director, apply here:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City/Jobs 

 

]]> 74697c7409259ec75ab5c0cc26776c6c Beth Evans started the topic ICYMI: Upcoming Webinar on Author Rights Sponsored by Max Planck Digital Library in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/icymi-upcoming-webinar-on-author-rights-sponsored-by-max-planck-digital-library/ Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:46:06 -0400  

Nov 2, 2023 8:30 AM

Ana Valente

** with apologies for cross-posting **

One of the key points coming out of the 16th Berlin Open Access Conference was the crucial need to fully enable author choice and author rights when publishing their research open access:

We strongly support retention of copyright and all rights therein by authors. Open…[Read more]

]]> 150b6611a9df7cf5254f35283d308eb4 Beth Evans started the topic An invitation from IUB to OA Week Keynotes touching on AI and science publishing in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/an-invitation-from-iub-to-oa-week-keynotes-touching-on-ai-and-science-publishing/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:23:41 -0400 ICYMI

Hi All,
Just a reminder that Indiana University Libraries invites you to remotely attend our Open Access Week keynotes on Friday, October 27th:

[Read more]

]]> c44a7a65845b8f980fc6af95830da03f Beth Evans replied to the topic 10/17 Meeting Notes in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=144521 Thu, 19 Oct 2023 23:03:30 -0400 Looks good, Jill!  Looking forward to the November meet-up.

Beth

]]> b65b09832abee59d67a66f99b577b0cc Beth Evans replied to the topic 10/17 Meeting Notes in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=144386 Wed, 18 Oct 2023 01:00:09 -0400 Thanks, Jill. Sorry I had to miss the meeting.

And thanks, Monica, for the article.

On peer review, here are a couple of recent articles that caught my…[Read more]

]]> ee09c0fcd82c0619e80fccaf54a2e082 Beth Evans started the topic Who’s Afraid of Open Science? in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/whos-afraid-of-open-science/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:55:28 -0400 https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/10/04/call-open-debate-open-science-opinion

“… in July, the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives released language in a spending bill that, if passed into law, would effectively freeze the Nelson memo for a year by banning the use of funds to implement the…[Read more]

]]> ad3a4678292478b0bf9063a45ef9e764 Beth Evans started the topic American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/american-chemical-society-offers-a-new-twist-on-the-article-processing-charge/ Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:33:07 -0400

The American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge: An Interview with Sarah Tegen

ACS is proposing what they call Author Development Charges (ADC’s).  These are fees promised to the publisher, prior to peer review, that will allow the author to buy-out the embargo from…[Read more]

]]> 6bb491b0a60f31b7ff846e974b4a2382 Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) and Shige (CJ) Suzuki (he/him/his) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/942220/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 02:37:44 -0400 316dd970abd6e28de9bebeee96c3ee87 Beth Evans commented on the post, The complaint committee, on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2023/07/29/the-complaint-committee/#comment-303534 Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:47:49 -0400 Good luck to you, Robin.

]]> fba67852c14576653d93d056c0e44dea Beth Evans commented on the post, Stage 2, on the site The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian https://rollingc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2023/07/03/stage-2/#comment-299422 Mon, 03 Jul 2023 23:16:31 -0400 Glad you are improving. Bit by bit.

]]> 6b054c81e257550610027247bc71b3d0 Beth Evans started the topic Can the E.U. Make a ‘Parallel Publishing System’ Work? in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/can-the-e-u-make-a-parallel-publishing-system-work/ Fri, 19 May 2023 19:59:07 -0400 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/2023/05/19/can-eu-make-parallel-publishing-system-work

 

]]> 08da16b70727b9ffdea1604673ccc550 Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) and annabelle heckler (she/ella) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/918188/ Fri, 05 May 2023 02:31:16 -0400 bd14763bb4f8b9f7e27b3f88d43cdf70 Beth Evans started the topic Scholarly Communication in Crisis: Research Integrity and Open Scholar in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/scholarly-communication-in-crisis-research-integrity-and-open-scholar/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 01:11:13 -0400  

I highly recommend this webinar if you missed the event. It includes some fascinating suggestions for peer review.

Webinar – Scholarly Communication in Crisis: Research Integrity and Open Scholarship

 

Beth

]]> 99b2aadf38529d00a2a2a62198b9df7a Beth Evans started the topic Forum: How do we make accessible research papers a reality? in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/forum-how-do-we-make-accessible-research-papers-a-reality/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 19:39:44 -0400 ICYMI on CULIBS, shared thanks to Adina Mulliken, accessibility librarian at Hunter.

Forum: How do we make accessible research papers a reality?

https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessibility_forum.html

Beth

]]> 4705575d10ce8ed3ab7ee7df7ce78059 Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) joined the group Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/865890/ Fri, 30 Sep 2022 17:50:55 -0400 45f7d5a2b16555274dcfa103676a7f72 Beth Evans replied to the topic New SCRT Co-Chair -- Michael Kirby in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=131837 Wed, 28 Sep 2022 21:44:41 -0400 Thanks for the good news, Nancy.

Hi Michael. So glad your will be our new co-chair. Welcome to a really important and interesting committee.

Looking forward to all the planning and programming ahead of us this year.

Beth

Beth Evans
Brooklyn College Library

]]> bcf8894ad519f19edc5b2db9d0c4d39c Beth Evans replied to the topic New (and improved!) federal public access policy announced in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=130992 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 17:48:55 -0400 Fantastic news, Jill. Thanks for sharing.

Beth

]]> bb63107cfb3528dd78a49bdeaeb206e3 Beth Evans started the topic Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/pearson-plans-to-sell-its-textbooks-as-nfts/ Wed, 03 Aug 2022 21:30:45 -0400 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/02/pearson-plans-to-sell-its-textbooks-as-nfts

This has me thinking more and more about OERs.

Here is an earlier article on NFTs for books in general, puts a mostly positive spin on the trend:

NFTs for Books: How This Emerging Tech Can Reward Authors & Readers

Not a positive for libraries, though. More on that here:…[Read more]

]]> dc26e34ce1932acc92e3b2ab9be352ed Ann Matsuuchi (she/they)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/850685/ Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:57:46 -0400 2c899eb6fd3ebe8fa836e1a64f405474 Beth Evans started the topic Academia, at it again, with bizarre connections in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/academia-at-it-again-with-bizarre-connections/ Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:14:23 -0400 I clicked on an email link from Academia.edu to claim authorship of a poster Nanette Johnson and I created for a scholarly communication conference in 2018.

I then visited the Academia site and saw that the title for our poster in the Academia metadata showed the pdf for a paper “Establishment and verification of nonlinear bolthead connection…[Read more]

]]> 20ac27bdc93fc54c5ac25eeee28105b6 Beth Evans started the topic Job Dedicated to the Institutional Repository in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/job-dedicated-to-the-institutional-repository/ Tue, 03 May 2022 00:27:10 -0400 I was fascinated to see this job and its single focus on the institutional repository (IR) come across the schol comm listserv, at a time when most library jobs ask for librarians to wear so many hats. That’s real commitment to building the IR.

https://uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/11415

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Libraries…[Read more]

]]> edbcf133803dffddd8c227859b506764 Beth Evans replied to the topic Sneaky Plagiarism in Academic Journals in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=126657 Thu, 24 Mar 2022 23:08:27 -0400 What fun!

My favs are:

fluffy C  for fuzzy C

mean outright mistake for absolute error

Thanks for sharing, Nancy.

 

Beth

 

]]> 2c92bbcbb0daa3f527cf4ba489c4283f Beth Evans and Vicente Revilla are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/826331/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:38:40 -0500 defc9d3b124b288b20f00f0d01b6f362 Beth Evans started the topic Academia.edu and Libguides in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/academia-edu-and-libguides/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 16:25:23 -0500 Dear colleagues,

Maybe you, too, have had this experience or saw an email I sent to the CUNY Academic Works coordinators?

I went into academia.edu to claim myself as author of an article, following an invitation letter email from the platform.

Listed in other possible papers I authored were a large number of libguides I manage for the BC…[Read more]

]]> 81193d4d5b1be4fcea3200fd83f0abf7 Ann Matsuuchi started the topic SF Wikipedia edit-a-thon + City Tech SF Symposium 12/9 in the forum CUNY Edits https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cuny-edits/forum/topic/sf-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-city-tech-sf-symposium-12-9/ Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:26:20 -0500 Register for the conference and keynote (4pm est) here (Ximena Gallardo C. + Ann Matsuuchi): https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/sciencefictionatcitytech/. Participate in the edit-a-thon here (12/6-12/10): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/City_Tech_SF_(Dec_2021)

]]> 13b2baaec51fa118e096c72743c6e82f Beth Evans started the topic Peer Review Week Activities to Publicize on Your Campuses in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/peer-review-week-activities-to-publicize-on-your-campuses/ Thu, 09 Sep 2021 21:58:09 -0400 Peer Review Week is an annual global event celebrating the essential role that peer review plays in maintaining quality in scholarly communication. Free online workshops and presentations take place September 20-24, 2021 and address the theme “Identity in Peer Review.” Presenters look at the role of personal and social identity in peer review…[Read more]

]]> 2723c410a8fc92b1677298a7eb7c29af Beth Evans started the topic An article of interest: Moving Scientific Publishing Toward Social Justice in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/forum/topic/an-article-of-interest-moving-scientific-publishing-toward-social-justice/ Thu, 09 Sep 2021 20:25:42 -0400 Representatives of 500 Women Scientists, GeoLatinas and LatinXinBME issue a call to action, highlighting 10 key practices.

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2021/09/09/call-action-more-socially-just-publishing-opinion

]]> 6dfaa0e54ef453a1696929fded4238e3 Ann Matsuuchi (she/they) and Greet Van Belle are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/774456/ Tue, 03 Aug 2021 15:18:54 -0400