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Information Interventions @ CUNY: Handouts and Slides

So far this year, there have been two events in the new Information Interventions @ CUNY series: Open Access to Scholarly Literature: Which Side Are You On? and To Catch a Predator: How to Recognize Predatory Journals and Conferences.  In case you missed them, here are the materials from each.  Please use, share, and remix as you wish!

Open Access to Scholarly Literature: Which Side Are You On?

To Catch a Predator: How to Recognize Predatory Journals and Conferences

Still to come: Information Interventions @ CUNY events on open educational resources and the controversy surrounding open access and dissertations!

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To Catch a Predator: How to Recognize Predatory Journals and Conferences

You are invited to the second event in the Information Interventions @ CUNY series:

To Catch a Predator: How to Recognize Predatory Journals and Conferences
Friday, November 15, 2013, 10am – noon
The Graduate Center, Rooms C203/C204 (Concourse Level)
Refreshments will be served

Evaluating journal quality is increasingly difficult: there are many new journals and publishers. Some are predatory, claiming peer review where there is none and being far more interested in profit than the dissemination of high-quality scholarly information. (Many others are simply low quality — not predatory but not a desirable publishing venue for most scholars.) Predatory publishers have always existed but, due in part to the growth of online publishing, they are becoming more visible, more aggressive, and more important to understand.

Come learn about their spammy, scammy practices, as well as how to distinguish simply less-good publishers from truly predatory ones, why the existence of predatory publishers should not scare us away from open access publishing more generally, and how to respond when others conflate predatory and open access publishing.

RSVP by Thursday, November 7 to Jill Cirasella or Maura Smale.

Sponsored by the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable, the CUNY Office of Library Services, and Just Publics @ 365.

There are more Information Interventions @ CUNY coming up: Stay tuned for Spring 2014 events about open educational resources and the controversy surrounding dissertations and open access!

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Open Access to Scholarly Literature: Which Side Are You On?

120x240You are invited to the first event in the Information Interventions @ CUNY series!

Open Access to Scholarly Literature: Which Side Are You On?
Friday, October 25, 2013
10am – noon
The Graduate Center
Rooms C201/C202 (Concourse Level)
Refreshments will be served

Open access (OA) to scholarly literature recently hit a major milestone: Half of all research articles published become open access, either immediately or after an embargo period. Are the articles you read among them? What about the articles you write? Are the journals to which you submit open-access friendly? What about the journals for which you peer review? Are there any reasons why the public should not have access to the results of taxpayer-funded research?

Jill Cirasella (Associate Librarian for Public Services and Scholarly Communication, Graduate Center) will explain the motivation for OA, describe the details of OA, and differentiate between publishing in open access journals (“gold” OA) and self-archiving works in OA repositories (“green” OA). She will also dispel persistent myths about OA and examine some of the challenges to OA.

Please RSVP by Friday, October 18 to Jill Cirasella or Maura Smale. This event is sponsored by the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable and JustPublics@365.

And that’s not all! There are more Information Interventions @ CUNY coming up!

Save the Date for our upcoming event on predatory journals and conferences!
Friday, November 15, 2013
10am-noon
The Graduate Center
C203/C204 (Concourse Level)

And stay tuned for Spring 2014 events about open educational resources and the controversy surrounding dissertations and open access!

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/.