There’s a nonstop firehose of articles about scholarly publishing, and we can’t read/share them all, but this seems like a very important heads-up that the Trump administration may repeal the Nelson OSTP memo (which instructed all federal agencies to develop policies ensuring immediate public access to publications and data resulting from funded…[Read more]

Hello Group Admins!

The Commons Development Team recently released an update to the privacy options for groups. The new release adds a question to the “Public” privacy settings option that allows a Group Admin to make a public group only visible to logged-in Commons members.

Now, if you select the “Public” setting option under Group Privacy, you…[Read more]

Hi all,   Exciting news I think– Yesterday I learned- from Justin Tricarico in Hunter’s Digital Learning- that EBSCO offers a button to request an accessible copy of not only e-books but also journal articles.  And, EBSCO returned the article Justin tried with pretty good quality tagging within a business day!!!  I think this will be an ama…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

LACUNY Scholarly Communication Roundtable is organizing a spring discussion event. This event will focus on one of two recent publications on open access publishing:

Publishing Beyond the Market Open Access, Care, and the Commons by Samuel A. Moore

or

Achieving Global Open Access The Need for Scientific, Epistemic and…

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This spring, the Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library is offering three online workshops related to scholarly publishing. (Each workshop will occur twice: once on a Wednesday evening and once on a Friday afternoon.) All members of the CUNY community are welcome, regardless of campus. The workshops are especially well suited to faculty, graduate s…[Read more]

As members of the Group for Group Admins, you are all invited to join the next Commons Open Community meeting due to your extensive usage and knowledge of our platform. During the meeting we’d love to hear from you, our admin-level users, about how you are using the Commons to develop projects, facilitate collaboration, and foster connections…[Read more]

I know there have been a ton of great webinars to choose from lately thanks to Open Access Week, but this one next Tuesday (3pm ET) seems especially fun:

Scholarly Communication Horror Stories

Join us for a virtual Halloween event where authors share real-life tales of academic publishing nightmares, data management mishaps, and copyright…[Read more]

Hiding in my email was this announcement of an upcoming series of webinars about AI and copyright. I think the line-up looks quite exciting!

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This fall semester, OCEAN and Authors Alliance are co-hosting a full Discussion Series on AI and its implications for professionals working in libraries, archives and museums and for authors, artists,…[Read more]

Thanks to everyone who voted in the scheduling poll for the first LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable. The winning time is Monday, September 29 at 2-3pm. (Sincere apologies to those for whom this time doesn’t work.)

The meeting will be on Zoom — please register for the meeting link.

Tentative meeting agenda:

• Elect roundtable co-…

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Apologies for this test message, but I want to see if messages to this forum are still going out as email notifications. I sent a message yesterday, and it didn’t seem to be delivered via email…

If you get this, here’s the message from yesterday, about the GC library’s Fall 2025 scholarly publishing workshops.

Thanks,
Jill

The Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library invites you to its upcoming online workshops about scholarly publishing and research evaluation. All members of the CUNY community are welcome, regardless of campus. The workshops are especially well suited to faculty, graduate students, administrators, and others engaged in the discovery, production, or e…[Read more]