Scholarly Communication Archive

Scholarly Communication Essentials: Workshop Series

Posted on February 2, 2021 | No Comments
This spring, the Mina Rees Library is again offering a slate of workshops on scholarly communication topics. The workshops are clustered into two series: Scholarly Communication Essentials (in the first half of the semester) and Contracts & Copyright (in the second half). The Scholarly Communication […]
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Fall Scholarly Communication Workshop Series

Posted on September 23, 2020 | No Comments
How do scholars formally engage in conversation with each other? What kinds of works do scholars produce beyond books and articles? How can research impact be measured? What about journal quality? What are some easy ways to find open access versions of others’ works, and […]
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CUNY Webinar Series: Funding Fridays

Posted on September 21, 2020 | No Comments
CUNY’s Office of Library Services is collaborating with CUNY’s Office of Research and the Research Foundation’s Office of Award Pre-Proposal Support to offer Faculty Funding Fridays, a new webinar series for the CUNY community. The series, which features one webinar per month, kicks off this […]
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Fair Use of Copyrighted Works during COVID-19

Posted on September 8, 2020 | No Comments
No matter your field, you almost certainly use copyrighted works in your teaching and research. Perhaps you’ve wondered how much of a book you can share with students. Or how much of a poem you can excerpt in an article you’re writing. Or whether you […]
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CUNY Academic Works: Not Just for Dissertations and Theses

Posted on February 18, 2020 | No Comments
Most GC students and faculty are familiar with CUNY Academic Works, CUNY’s public access repository, but possibly only as the destination for graduating students’ dissertations, theses, and capstone projects. Indeed, since 2014 all GC dissertations, theses, and capstone projects have been posted to Academic Works. […]
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Scholarly Communication Events

Posted on February 14, 2020 | No Comments
There is an avalanche of events on topics in scholarly communications coming in the next few weeks. Come get snowed under at the library! To see a workshop description and a link to registration, click on a title in the following list. Finding and Using […]
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Repository Curation Update: Faculty Outreach Pilot

Posted on November 21, 2019 | No Comments
Here is one of a three-part series of repository updates at the GC Library during my time here as the Repository Project Curator. Faculty Outreach Pilot This project is designed to support GC faculty to post their academic work openly so that readers can get […]
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“Dear Esteemed Researcher…”

Posted on November 11, 2019 | No Comments
If you are a researcher with a .edu email address, chances are good that you’ve received a flattering email that opens with a greeting such as “Dear Esteemed Researcher” and proceeds to invite you to submit an article to a journal, join an editorial board, […]
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The Labor of Open: Report from Triangle SCI

Posted on October 25, 2019 | No Comments
Open scholarship is a lot of work. As a librarian, writer, and editor, I’ve spent a lot of time working on open access. I was part of a team that flipped the journal Radical Teacher to an open access model in 2012, a project that […]
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Welcome Sadie Rain Hope Gund – Repository Project Curator

Posted on October 15, 2019 | No Comments
The Graduate Center Library is pleased to introduce Sadie Rain Hope-Gund to the Mina Rees Library and Graduate Center community. Sadie Rain is working this Fall 2019 semester as a College Assistant on two projects focused on Open Scholarship. Half of her time will be […]
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