Scholarly Communication Archive

A Holiday Gift from Art History Teaching Resources

Posted on December 27, 2016 | 1 Comment
Earlier in 2016, our friends at Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR), a robust and respected open educational resource initially created by Graduate Center students, founded Art History Pedagogy and Practice (AHPP), an open access journal dedicated to the scholarship of teaching and learning in art […]
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Open Education Is Not a Luxury

Posted on November 30, 2016 | 5 Comments
Audre Lorde famously asserted that “for women . . . poetry is not a luxury.” Artistry and lived experience shared, while valued less than dominant notions of thought and process, is “a vital necessity of our existence,” she wrote (Lorde, Audre. Poetry is Not a […]
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Two Free Tools to Help Boost Your Online Scholarly Presence

Posted on November 21, 2016 | 3 Comments
You may already be familiar with searching for articles and other academic works in the popular web search engine Google Scholar. You may have noticed the article-level metrics such as number of times cited (and by whom) that are included with your Google Scholar search […]
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HIV/AIDS and Being a Scholar in the Digital Era

Posted on November 9, 2016 | 3 Comments
Guest Post by Jessie Daniels, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center. When a new and frightening epidemic known as ‘AIDS’ was devastating a generation in the 1980s, the response from elected officials and government agencies was appallingly slow or non-existent. Also in […]
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Why Do You Write?

Posted on October 26, 2016 | 8 Comments
GC Sociology Prof. Jessie Daniels’ second book Cyber Racism appeared in 2009, published by a reputable academic publisher that sold books mostly to academic libraries in paper and ebook formats that were entirely closed, locked behind turnstiles and paywalls. Readers had to either buy a copy or […]
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At the GC, Every Week Is Open Access Week!

Posted on October 24, 2016 | 8 Comments
This week (October 24-30) is International Open Access Week, an annual event encouraging students, faculty, librarians, and researchers of all kinds to consider and share the benefits of open access to scholarly literature, research data, and educational materials. Here at the Graduate Center Library, we make […]
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Open Education and OERs: Moving Beyond the Jargon

Posted on October 21, 2016 | 10 Comments
Even as it becomes clear that higher education may, in fact, survive the great MOOC threat of the 2010s, there continues to be a mixture of anxiety and misconceptions around the notion of open education. So what do we mean by open education? Personally, I […]
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Negotiating a Favorable Book Contract

Posted on October 17, 2016 | 17 Comments
Securing a book contract for promotion and tenure is a goal in itself for academic authors. Scholarly book contracts tend to favor the publisher, however, and the terms often work against the author over the long term. That said, it’s increasingly possible for authors to negotiate more favorable terms with […]
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Open Access Research Guide

Posted on October 12, 2016 | 5 Comments
Check out our newly updated Open Access research guide to learn the ins and outs of OA publishing and how it relates to your dissertation and other scholarship. As you may already be aware, open access publishing is web accessible, free of charge, and free […]
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FTC vs. “Predatory” Publishers

Posted on September 28, 2016 | 12 Comments
Are you familiar with the phenomenon of “predatory” open access (OA) journals? If not, here’s a brief description (from an article I co-authored last year) to get you started: [Predatory open access journals] exist for the sole purpose of profit, not the dissemination of high-quality research findings […]
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