The Library seeks applications for the Open Knowledge Fellowship, which provides a $2000 stipend for participating Graduate Center doctoral students. Apply by Wednesday 9/28/22 at 5pm EST! We look forward to hearing from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions: library@gc.cuny.edu
The Fellowship is interdisciplinary, and we welcome applications from students in all programs. This is a competitive opportunity made entirely possible through state funding provided by the CUNY Office of Library Services (OLS).
What will happen during the Open Knowledge Fellowship?
The Fellowship provides interactive training by Graduate Center library faculty on how to find and implement openly licensed resources for the course you teach (see Eligibility below).
Often referred to as Open Educational Resources (OER), these may include textbooks, lab manuals, ancillary materials, videos. We’ll talk about Open Access (OA) scholarship, and how to locate high-quality journal articles that are freely available online.
By the end of the Fellowship, you will have:
– Adapted the syllabus for your Spring 2023 course, so that it consists entirely of cost-free materials
– A critical and informed perspective about economic/political issues in scholarly publishing
– A working knowledge of copyright and Creative Commons licenses
– A set of strategies for inviting students into the creation of open resources, centering their perspectives in the process
Who is Eligible to Apply?
The Fall 2022 Fellowship is open to Graduate Center doctoral students who will be teaching at CUNY in Spring 2023. Participants must be fully enrolled in the Spring 2023 semester to receive the stipend. Full enrollment for doctoral students is 7 credits or weighed instructions units (WIUs).
Fall 2022 Fellowship Dates:
Fellows are required to participate in workshops on the following dates/times, held synchronously over Zoom. These five dates are all Fridays, 10am-12pm:
October 28th
November 4th
November 11th
November 18th
December 2nd
*If one of the above dates does not work for you, please apply and note this on your application.
Syllabus Conversion Project:
Fellows will create an OER / zero-cost syllabus to replace an existing syllabus for a course that will be taught in Spring 2023 – or – that was previously offered in a recent semester and is expected to be taught again.
If you have questions about the Fellowship or application process, please contact us at: library@gc.cuny.edu
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Elvis Bakaitis is currently the Head of Reference at the Mina Rees Library. They're also proud to serve on the University LGBTQ Council, and as a board member of CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies. 
