Scholarly Communication Archive

Open Access Week Events: Authors’ Rights and The Internet’s Own Boy

Posted on October 16, 2014 | 8 Comments
Next week (October 20-26, 2014) is Open Access Week, an annual global event promoting open access as a new norm in scholarship and research. Here at the Graduate Center, we’re celebrating Open Access Week with a workshop about understanding and preserving your rights as an author and […]
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Dissertation Dilemma: To Embargo or Not to Embargo?

Posted on September 22, 2014 | 40 Comments
Now that the first batch of dissertations is available in Academic Works, the Graduate Center’s new open access institutional repository, students and faculty are once again wondering whether it’s better to make dissertations open access immediately or embargo them (keep them private, unavailable to readers and […]
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First Batch of Dissertations & Theses Now in Academic Works

Posted on September 16, 2014 | 12 Comments
Our first batch of goodies is ready! All dissertations and theses from 2014 (thus far) are now in Academic Works, the Graduate Center’s new open access institutional repository. Some of them are open access (i.e., freely available) now, and the others will become open access at the end of the […]
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“For the Public Good”: A Public Institution and Its New Open Access Repository

Posted on May 20, 2014 | 17 Comments
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently ran a column by Graduate Center Interim President Chase Robinson about the Graduate Center’s recent string of high-profile hires and overall success recruiting prominent and innovative faculty. One reason the Graduate Center is so appealing to potential hires, he says, is […]
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