Happy holidays, all!

I wanted to let you know that the CUNY Academic Commons team just published this news post about two big upcoming projects. We are migrating hosts to improve Commons stability and performance, and we are starting a biannual series of Open Community Meetings to share updates, answer questions, and hear your feedback. We hope t…[Read more]

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 

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]

Application deadline extended to Wednesday, June 22!

The OpenLab is hiring! Please help us to spread the word. See below or on the OpenLab for details.

The OpenLab team seeks to add a Digital Pedagogy Fellow to our enthusiastic team.

City Tech’s OpenLab (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/) is an innovative, open digital platform for students, f…[Read more]

The OpenLab is hiring! Please help us to spread the word. See below or on the OpenLab for details:
The OpenLab team seeks to add a Digital Pedagogy Fellow to our enthusiastic team.
City Tech’s OpenLab (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/) is an innovative, open digital platform for students, faculty, and staff at New York City College of T…[Read more]

If you have an interest in platforms that support OER, open teaching, community and collaboration, come check out the Commons In A Box OpenLab Team’s workshop at NYCDH Week!

Commons In A Box OpenLab (https://cboxopenlab.org/) is free, open source software that enables anyone to create a commons space specifically designed for open learning, where…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite applications from CUNY faculty to participate in the 2022 STEM Pedagogy Institute (SPI) at the CUNY Graduate Center. Faculty from all disciplines who are teaching STEM-related courses may apply to become STEM Pedagogy Fellows (SPFs), where they will work with colleagues from across the CUNY system to…[Read more]

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]

GC Digital Showcase

Date: Thursday, May 13, 2021
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Location: Zoom (link to follow)

The GC Digital Showcase is an annual event featuring interdisciplinary digital scholarship produced by graduate students, digital fellows, working groups, classes, and programs across The Graduate Center, CUNY. We invite you to share y…[Read more]

The CUNY Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center invites applications for Teaching and Learning Center Fellowships for the 2021-2022 academic year. TLC Fellows support CUNY Graduate Center students who are teaching across CUNY by consulting with graduate instructors during office hours, developing workshops and Focused Inquiry Groups, p…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Teaching and Learning Center and the MA Program in DH and MS Program in Data Visualization have arranged for 100 Graduate Center students and faculty to view the documentary Coded Bias, about how algorithmic bias and surveillance disproportionately impacts women and people of color.

The TLC will be hosting a distributed chat…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

We recently learned that at the December 14th meeting, the Board of Trustees will be voting to approve a $2m contract with Turnitin.

Lisa Rhody, Roxanne Shirazi, and I have prepared testimony opposition this contract, which must be submitted to the BOT by December 7.

You can read the statement here:…[Read more]

Has this been discussed here?

https://shareyourpaper.org/libraries

I got this email below today, as you may have as well, from Joe MacArthur, who also founded the Open Access Button.  I believe we have talked about that.

Beth

___________

Hi Beth,

After a fantastic response to our release of Shareyourpaper.org earlier this ye…[Read more]