Library Workshops & Events
Check the library calendar for workshops and events of interest, including Zotero trainings!
Featured Stories
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Interlibrary Loan: Access the World’s Library Resources from the GC
19 April 2024 3:45 PM | No Comments -
Teaching (and Reforming) the Next Generation of Pirates and Copyright Violators
10 April 2024 3:24 PM | No Comments -
A New Way to Log In to Interlibrary Loan
16 January 2024 11:34 AM | 1 Comment -
700,000 Interlibrary Loan Requests…and Counting! (updated)
12 December 2023 2:29 PM | No Comments -
Banned Books and Rights for the Incarcerated: Martin Sostre’s Afro-Asian Bookshop in Exile
03 October 2023 4:28 PM | No Comments
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Open Access Archive
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Share It Now or Save It For Later: Making Choices about Dissertations and Publishing
Posted on April 4, 2014 | 22 CommentsYou are invited to an event in the Information Interventions @ CUNY series: Share It Now or Save It For Later: Making Choices about Dissertations and Publishing Thursday, May 1, 2014 2-4 p.m. Graduate Center Room C198 Join us for a lively panel debate on […] -
What We Talk About When We Talk About Open Access (aka Don’t Forget About Repositories!)
Posted on March 26, 2014 | No Comments(Déjà vu? This post is a very slight reworking of a post I wrote last week for the fantastic JustPublics@365 blog. It also appeared on Open Access @ CUNY, a blog that might interest followers of this blog.) Discussion about open access often focuses exclusively on open access journals, and […] -
Graduates Lose Off-Site Access to Library Databases
Posted on February 28, 2014 | 10 CommentsWe regret that the CUNY-mandated email and network account changes have interrupted graduates’ off-campus access to GC Library resources. Newly differentiated alumni network accounts now preclude all GC alums, not only those with lapsed GC accounts, from getting to licensed databases from off campus. Publishers […] -
Measuring and Increasing Your Scholarly Impact
Posted on February 19, 2014 | No CommentsThis class will introduce the metrics currently used to evaluate scholarly journals, authors, and articles, and will discuss the effect on impact of making works available open access. -
Do You Use Google Scholar? Use It Better!
Posted on May 28, 2013 | 6 CommentsAre you a fan of Google Scholar, Google’s tool for searching for journal articles and other scholarly materials? If so, don’t use plain old Google Scholar. Rather, use the library’s customized version, available in the Databases tab on the library homepage and on the library’s […] -
Digitized Museum Catalogs
Posted on May 12, 2013 | No CommentsSeveral museums have released e-book versions of museum publications free on the web! Updates will be added to the ‘E-Books‘ section of the ‘Books’ tab on the Art History Subject Guide. Guggenheim Museum: Select exhibition catalogs from 1937-1999 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA): […] -
American Journal of Public Health Is Suddenly Less Public
Posted on April 30, 2013 | 14 CommentsOn April 27, the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) informed its recent authors of plans to close a portion of its backfile, which is currently open access on the journal website. Until now, all AJPH articles more than two years old have been freely […] -
Prof. Jill Cirasella Joins the Graduate Center Library
Posted on April 26, 2013 | 2 CommentsThe Graduate Center Library welcomes Jill Cirasella, Associate Professor, as its Associate Librarian for Public Services and Scholarly Communication. Jill will coordinate reference, circulation, and interlibrary loan services, and she will also lead many of the Grad Center Library’s scholarly communications initiatives. She joins the […] -
Publishing and the POOC, or, why we need open access
Posted on March 11, 2013 | No CommentsIsn’t everything up on the internet for free? Yes, most new books and articles appear in digital format, but NO-O-O they’re not (yet) mostly free. Libraries pay big bucks to license them, and the licenses require libraries to restrict access to narrow audiences (students, faculty, or people […]
