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Open Access: The Basics, October 21 at Queens College

The Center for Teaching and Learning at Queens College is sponsoring an event during Open Access Week. If you’d like to learn more about open access, this talk is for you! We will cover:

– The benefits of open access publishing
– Authors’ rights
– Green open access (self-archiving on the web)
– Gold open access (open access journals)
– Evaluating potential publishers
– Resources at QC to help you learn more about open access.

Speakers:
Nancy Foasberg, Humanities Librarian, Benjamin Rosenthal Library
Kelly Blanchat, Electronic Resources Librarian, Benjamin Rosenthal Library

Date: Monday, October 21, 2013
Time: 12:15pm-1:30pm
Location: Razran Hall Room 360, Queens College
Light refreshments will be served.

Please help us plan the event by registering here.

For more information, visit the CTL website.

This workshop is being offered as a part of Open Access Week (October 21-27, 2013). For more information about the problems with traditional journal publishing and the promise of open access publishing, and to learn about Open Access Week events across CUNY, visit https://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/.

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Save the Date: Our First Information Interventions @ CUNY Event!

Please save the date for our first event in a new series, Information Interventions @ CUNY:

An Introduction to Open Access
Friday, October 25
10am-Noon
At the CUNY Graduate Center

We expect that this event will provide an overview of open access and author’s rights and would be appropriate for anyone who publishes or who is considering publishing their work (including  students). More details to come–watch this space!

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Event Announcement: “Open, Connected, Accessible: Navigating the Road to Digital Scholarship”

“Open, Connected, Accessible: Navigating the Road to Digital Scholarship”

Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013
Time: 2:30-4pm
Location: 6304.01, Psychology Department, Graduate Center
Hashtag: #DigitalGC

How are digital technologies changing how we, as academics, do our jobs? What are the implications for faculty, for graduate students, and those in between? This conversation will highlight the most crucial issues in higher education and offer guideposts about how to navigate the road to scholarship in the digital era.

Publishing & Open Access in the Digital Era

  • Jill Cirasella, Assistant Professor, Library Department, Brooklyn College (for a few more weeks) & Graduate Center (in a few weeks), @jillasella

Networked Scholarly Collaboration and the CUNY Academic Commons

  • Matthew K. Gold, Associate Professor, English, City Tech, @mkgold

Tools for Making Scholarship Accessible

  • Joan Greenbaum, Professor Emerita, City University of New York, @Ashanda100