Author: Maura A. Smale

Maura Smale is Chief Librarian at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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OA Week Wrap-up: John Jay and City Tech

We’re finally recovered from Open Access Week and are happy to share the great materials from events that happened across CUNY that week!

On October 22nd and 25th, John Jay College hosted an Authors’ Rights Workshop. Check out their presentation and handout, and peruse the article from Anthropology News about the American Anthropological Association’s publishing program that was discussed. There was also a great Open Access Week display at the library! (see photo at left)

City Tech also hosted an Authors’ Rights Workshop on October 23rd, and you can check out the presentation and handout on the library’s blog.

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Open Access Workshop @ LaGuardia Community College on 10/23

Open Access: Good Citizenship in the Information Age

The Library will participate in OA Week by offering this workshop to the College community. We will discuss open access, defining it and explaining how it impacts the work of faculty and the learning environment of students. It will also show participants how to find open access content, like articles and textbooks, and how to determine to what extent their work can be shared with a broader audience.

Presented by Ann Matsuuchi, Steven Ovadia, Alexandra Rojas and Catherine Stern

WHEN: Tuesday, October 23 12:00-1:00 p.m.
WHERE: LaGuardia Community College Library, Conference Room-E-101

Contacts:
Ann Matsuuchi, [email protected]; Steven Ovadia, [email protected]; Alexandra Rojas, [email protected]; Catherine Stern, [email protected]

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Authors’ Rights Workshop @ Queens College, 10/23

Celebrate Open Access Week 2012 at Queens College by attending this workshop about your rights as an academic author!

Publishers often ask authors to sign away some rights as a condition of publication. When you publish your works, what rights do you retain? Can you repost it on your website? Who owns your copyright? How can you retain the rights you want? Should you consider publishing in open access journals?

Aiming to strengthen your knowledge about intellectual property, we will cover several aspects of academic publishing with a focus on authors’ rights, including:

• Considering the benefits of retaining copyright
• Assessing the types of contracts you may be offered
• Negotiating a better contract
• Accessing alternatives to traditional academic publishing
• Recognizing current problems with the academic publishing environment

The workshop will focus primarily on journal articles rather than other types of publications.

Speakers:
Michael Miller, Associate Librarian for Public Services, Benjamin Rosenthal Library
Nancy Foasberg, Humanities Librarian, Benjamin Rosenthal Library

Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Time: 12:15 – 1:30 pm
Location: Razran 318, Queens College

Please RSVP for the event at http://tinyurl.com/techtalk-23Oct2012, whether you plan to join us in person or virtually.

If you can’t make it in person, click here to join us online: http://queenscollege.adobeconnect.com/tt23oct2012/. You don’t need a password. Just choose Enter as a Guest, type in your name, and click Enter.

Click here to check your connection before the event: http://queenscollege.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

Sponsored by the Center for Teaching & Learning at Queens College.

Learn more about Open Access Week 2012: http://www.openaccessweek.org/