Happy Open Access Week! In celebration of this annual, international event, The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship, is pleased to invite all faculty and staff to a program:
You Know What You Write, But Do You Know Your Rights?
Understanding and Protecting Your Rights as an Author
When you publish a journal article, you sign a copyright agreement. Do you know what you’re agreeing to when you sign it? How can you find out a journal’s policy? How can you negotiate your contract to make the most of your rights as a scholar, researcher, and author?
Come enjoy wine & cheese with your colleagues at our Open Access Happy Hour and learn how to preserve your rights to reproduce, distribute, and display the work you create.
WHEN: Tuesday, October 23, from 5:30-7pm
WHERE: Rm A632, Faculty Lounge, City Tech
Space is limited! RSVP to Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu.
You Know What You Write, But Do You Know Your Rights?
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship, is pleased to announce a workshop in celebration of Open Access Week!
You Know What You Write, But Do You Know Your Rights?
Understanding and Protecting Your Rights as an Author
When you publish a journal article, you sign a copyright agreement. Do you know what you’re agreeing to when you sign it? How can you find out a journal’s policy? How can you negotiate your contract to make the most of your rights as a scholar, researcher, and author? Come enjoy wine & cheese with your colleagues at our Open Access Happy Hour and learn how to preserve your rights to reproduce, distribute, and display the work you create.
WHEN: Tuesday, October 23, from 5:30-7pm
WHERE: Rm A632, Faculty Lounge, City Tech
Space is limited! RSVP to Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu.
Support open access to taxpayer-funded research!
There’s a petition that began recently to ask the White House to require academic and scientific research funded by federal dollars to be made available for all to read free of charge. This is called open access publishing, and support for open access has been growing in the scholarly and library community over the past several decades.
Here at the City Tech Library we’re big fans of open access publishing, and have held many events over the years. We’ve even pledged to publish our own research open access whenever possible. When research is published open access everyone — students, patients, researchers who don’t work at a wealthy university, you, and me — can read it free of charge, and use it to teach, learn, and innovate.
Help support open access to federally-funded research! Head over to the White House website and sign the petition. The petition has until June 19th to reach 25,000 signatures, which guarantees an official response from the Administration (which is currently considering a bill called the Federal Research Public Access Act).
For more details about the issues surrounding open access publishing, check out this short video, and great website. There’s also the open access publishing network on the CUNY Academic Commons — if you’re interested in more discussion and action about open access publishing, please join us!
Spring Break Hours
Happy Spring Break! In case your plans include catching up on your studying or research, the library is OPEN during Spring Break, April 6-15, from 9:00am – 5:00pm, Monday through Friday (closed on Saturdays).
And of course you can use library resources online anytime! Just visit our website at http://library.citytech.cuny.edu
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Faculty Workshop: Manage and Share References with Zotero and Mendeley
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a library workshop. Doing research using internet or library sources? Interested in what other researchers in your field are reading? Learn how to use the free web-based tools Zotero and Mendeley to organize and cite your references, and to share and discuss scholarship with colleagues at City Tech or beyond.
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, March 14, 1-2pm in Rm. A540 (library classroom). RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.
Faculty Workshop: Maximizing minimally
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a library workshop: Maximizing minimally: Keeping current using RSS, alerts, and more. Discover how to set up RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds and alerts in your favorite databases and internet sources to keep track of the latest research in journals, news sources, associations, and blogs.
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, February 29, 1-2pm in Rm. A540 (library classroom). RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.
Open Access Happy Hour: Your Rights as an Author
You know what you write, but do you know your rights? Copyright is a bundle of rights that apply to work you produce in any medium. How can you choose a publisher and negotiate your contracts to make the most of your rights as a scholar, researcher, author, and creator? Come enjoy wine & cheese with your colleagues and learn how to preserve your rights to reproduce, distribute, and display the work you create.
Wednesday, October 26, 5:30-7pm
LOCATION: Rm A632, Faculty Lounge (Atrium Building)
RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.
Open Access Week is October 24-30 – learn more at http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
Faculty Workshop: Using Open Educational Materials in Your Courses
High-quality open access curricular materials are increasingly available online, and can provide an alternative to traditionally-published, high-priced textbooks. In this workshop we’ll discuss strategies for incorporating freely-available open access and public domain resources into your courses. Bring your syllabus or assignment and we will work together to add resources to your course website on Blackboard, the City Tech OpenLab, or other online platforms.
Coffee & cookies will be served.
Tuesday, October 25, 3:30-5pm
LOCATION: Rm A543, City Tech Library
RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.
Open Access Week is October 24-30 – learn more at http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
Are Scholarly Journal Prices Too Scary?
What’s so spooky about today’s scholarly journal prices?
Take our open access quiz to find out what is scaring librarians and might scare you too!
In support of Open Access Week (October 24-30), our colleagues at the Brooklyn College Library created a Halloween-themed quiz about journal pricing.
The Open Access “Pretty Scary” Quiz is ready, don’t be scared to take it, or share it!
http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/oa-quiz/
Faculty Workshop: Copyright and Fair Use in the Digital Teaching Environment
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a library workshop. Do you know how copyright and fair use applies to online courses, class blogs and other web-based teaching tools? Are you interested in making material available to students online, but aren’t sure how to do so legally? Do you have questions about intellectual property and the responsibilities and rights that you and your students have when posting class work online? In this workshop we’ll discuss these issues and look at some of the tools and guidelines available for your use.
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, October 12, 1-2pm in Rm. A540 (library classroom). RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.
