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    Expanded Hours Coming Soon

    Dear Graduate Center community, I am pleased to share the good news that effective Monday, November 15th, the Mina Rees Library building will be open from 9am to 9pm Monday through Friday and noon to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. In-person reference services will continue […]

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    EBSCO databases are down

    EBSCO databases appear to be lagging and timing out, particularly EBSCO ebooks. You may find that you can get to a book’s page, but will see an error when you try to access the content. The vendor is aware of the issue, and will notify us […]

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    The Value of Open Access…in the Words of Readers

    We at the Mina Rees Library often talk about how open access scholarly literature can benefit everyone: students and teachers of all levels, researchers inside and outside academia, policy makers (and those their policies affect), medical and mental health practitioners (and their patients), and potentially […]

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    A New Partner for the CUNY Digital History Archive

    The Mina Rees Library is pleased to announce ongoing support for the CUNY Digital History Archive, in partnership with the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (ASHP/CML) at the Graduate Center. The library will assume a lead role in developing and sustaining the […]

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  • The Access Paradox

    Hard sciences often have the greatest barriers between educational resources and students or educators. At CUNY, much work needs to be done to offer pathways through these barriers. 

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  • Apply now! Open Pedagogy Fellowship – Winter and Spring 2022

    Open Pedagogy Fellowship – Apply by Monday 10/18/21 at 5pm EST  The Library seeks applications for the Open Pedagogy Fellowship, each carrying a $2000 stipend. There are two Fellowship cohorts: one in Winter 2022 and another in Spring 2022. Please review the dates below carefully […]

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  • Cultivating a Philosophy of Open Pedagogy

    The fellowship helped me realize that even the relatively quotidian pedagogical process of assembling a syllabus can be a point of resistance against the corporatization and commodification of knowledge.

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    Scholarly Communication Essentials: Fall 2021 Workshops

    What is “scholarly communication”? In short, it’s all the different ways researchers share their work, in formal publications and otherwise, and all the complexities and issues surrounding that sharing. This fall, the Mina Rees Library is offering workshops on an assortment of important scholarly communication […]

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  • Digital Research Infrastructure Awards

    Create a web presence for your digital project! The Graduate Center Library and GC Digital Initiatives are happy to announce that we are continuing our pilot program to support student digital scholarship: one year of free access to hosting on a web server, along with your choice […]

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  • Open Pedagogy in Theatre Arts

    As I continued to learn about open pedagogy, I felt like I had finally found an articulated educational and teaching philosophy that encompassed so many of the goals that I was trying to achieve as an educator.

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