Library Workshops & Events
Check the library calendar for workshops and events of interest, including Zotero trainings!
Featured Stories
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Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2021-22
09 June 2022 10:00 AM | No Comments -
Interlibrary Loan News – Make More ILL Requests!
22 November 2021 2:30 PM | No Comments -
The Value of Open Access…in the Words of Readers
25 October 2021 10:59 AM | No Comments -
A New Partner for the CUNY Digital History Archive
20 October 2021 1:13 PM | No Comments -
Summertime, and Submitting Scholarship is Easy
12 August 2021 11:10 AM | No Comments
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OER Archive
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Open Knowledge Fellowship | Info Session on 5/23 at 4pm
Posted on May 1, 2023 | No CommentsInterested in applying for the Open Knowledge Fellowship’s upcoming Summer 2023 cohort? Curious to hear more about how “open knowledge” can apply to your current teaching practices at CUNY? The Fellowship is a 6 week hybrid program, with a $2000 stipend for participants. Join us […] -
Teaching Anthropology with OER
Posted on April 6, 2023 | No CommentsThis is the latest in our current series of short essays by participants in the Open Knowledge Fellowship coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences teaching […] -
Teaching Computer Science with Open Resources
Posted on March 24, 2023 | No CommentsThis is the latest in our current series of short essays by participants in the Open Knowledge Fellowship coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences teaching […] -
OER in Action: The GC Music Teaching Hub
Posted on March 21, 2023 | No CommentsThis is the latest in our series of short essays about Open Educational Resources (OER). The GC Music Teaching Hub is organized by current and former graduate teaching fellows of the CUNY Graduate Center Music Department, and is now receiving OER funding through the Mina […] -
Teaching Spanish Language and Gender with Open Resources
Posted on March 6, 2023 | No CommentsThis is the latest in our current series of short essays by participants in the Open Knowledge Fellowship coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows share insight into the process of converting a syllabus to openly-licensed and/or zero-cost resources, as well as their experiences teaching […] -
Apply now! Open Knowledge Fellowship | Spring 2023
Posted on December 13, 2022 | No CommentsThe Library seeks applications for the Spring 2023 cohort of the Open Knowledge Fellowship, which provides a $2000 stipend for participating Graduate Center doctoral students. Apply by Wednesday 1/11/23 at 5pm EST! We look forward to hearing from you. Feel free to reach out with […] -
Open Access Requires Access: An Irony of OER
Posted on December 12, 2022 | No CommentsWhen it came time to start replacing items on my syllabus with “open” versions, I realized the limitations of OER. Only one of the resources on my syllabus was widely accessible to all regardless of institutional affiliation. -
Shifting Out of Neutral into OER
Posted on November 30, 2022 | No CommentsI was eager to find ways to lessen the financial burden of being a college student in a university system that was once and should still be free to attend. I struggled to find resources that could make my courses a zero-cost experience and introduce students to critical traditions in psychology that are typically excluded in mainstream psychology textbooks and curricula. -
Increasing Engagement via Zero Cost
Posted on November 23, 2022 | No CommentsIt felt wrong, from the beginning, to require my students to find the money and spend so much on a book we would only read a few texts from, [made up of] classics of literature that largely belong to the public domain.... I needed to learn how to make this right and allow my students to engage with my course materials without having to go penniless for it. -
Knowledge, Power, and OER
Posted on November 2, 2022 | No CommentsEncountering a paywall on my way to some piece of scholarship prompts me into critically questioning the systems of power that keep people in and out of the spaces where knowledge circulates and is transformed and grows, and in/out of the borders of peer-reviewed research in the various fields of specialized knowledge.
