Library Workshops & Events
Check the library calendar for workshops and events of interest, including Zotero trainings!
Featured Stories
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New Access to The Chief: A Voice for Workers
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Remembering Helga Bravmann Feder, with Gratitude
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New and Featured Streaming Film Databases: Docuseek and Electronic Arts Intermix
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Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2023-24
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Adrienne Rich: Teaching at CUNY, 1968–1974, Now Available on Manifold
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Scholarly Communication Archive
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Upcoming Workshops about Sharing Your Work (i.e., Going Open Access)
Posted on October 14, 2015 | No CommentsNext week, October 19-25, is International Open Access Week, an annual opportunity for students, faculty, and other researchers to learn about open access (OA), find out how to make their works OA, and help make OA the new norm in scholarship and research. Once Open Access Week has whetted your appetite for OA (or even if Open Access Week slips past you), join the Graduate Center Library for workshops addressing two key aspects of OA: Does my publisher allow me to share my work (i.e., make it OA)? And if so, how and where am I allowed to share it? -
Find Your Audience with CUNY Academic Works
Posted on September 8, 2015 | 1 CommentYou may already know about Academic Works, CUNY’s new open access institutional repository. (You can browse the whole site or go straight to the GC section.) It collects and provides public access to the scholarly and creative work of the CUNY community. Only the CUNY community can upload […] -
Why Do Authors Boycott Elsevier?
Posted on May 21, 2015 | 15 Comments(Déjà vu? This post also appears on the Open Access @ CUNY blog.) You may have heard of the Cost of Knowledge, a site where researchers publicly express their upset with the business practices of the publisher Elsevier and commit not to contribute to Elsevier journals. As […] -
GC Students: Submit Your Work to Academic Works!
Posted on May 12, 2015 | 19 CommentsGraduate Center students, we’re finally ready for you! You may now self-submit your scholarly and/or creative works to Academic Works, CUNY’s open access institutional repository! And by “works,” we mean just about any kind of scholarly or creative output: journal articles, book contributions, conference papers, slideshows, posters, […] -
The Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle @ GC April 20
Posted on March 20, 2015 | 5 CommentsBrewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, will speak at the annual Graduate Center Friends of the Library event April 20, 2015. [A recording of the event is here.] Kahle (pronounced “Kale”) is a leader of digital stewardship for the world’s heritage. He founded the Internet Archive in 1996 to strive for “universal […] -
Finding Digital Dissertations
Posted on March 17, 2015 | No CommentsHaving immediate access to thousands of dissertations and theses from institutions around the world from 1887 to the present can be immensely beneficial to Graduate Center researchers, especially those choosing topics for their research. Luckily, ProQuest Digital Dissertations & Theses provides such access. The full text […] -
Graduate Center Research Impact: Pin Drops Keep Falling on My Map!
Posted on March 12, 2015 | 4 CommentsGermany. India. England. France. Canada. Poland. Iran. Sweden. China. Turkey. Netherlands. Egypt. Russia. Japan. Those are just a few of the countries where researchers are downloading the works of Graduate Center students and faculty! Academic Works, the Graduate Center’s new open access institutional repository, tells us […] -
MediaCamp Workshops Nov 5, 7, 14
Posted on November 4, 2014 | 4 CommentsMediaCamp Workshops are free and open for scholars, faculty, staff, graduate students, administrators, activists, and others to build traditional media and digital media skills. Still open: Blogging (Nov 5), Analytics & Metrics (Nov 7), Communications for Social Justice Advocates (new! Nov 7), Podcasting 101 (new! Nov 14), and Op-Eds: Pitching […] -
Open Access: What Is It and Why All the Fuss?
Posted on October 30, 2014 | 11 CommentsYou might have noticed that we Graduate Center librarians talk a lot about open access — sometimes in conversations about dissertation embargoes, sometimes on the topic of authors’ rights, sometimes in the context of Academic Works, the Graduate Center’s new institutional repository. But maybe you’ve never really gotten […] -
Faculty Workshop: Why & How to Submit to Academic Works
Posted on October 24, 2014 | 5 CommentsFaculty, did you know that the vast majority of journals allow authors to make their articles (either the pre-refereed version, the post-refereed version, or the publisher-branded PDF) freely available online? However, the responsibility usually lies with you, the author, to do the online posting, and […]
