Academic Works Posting Party, 3/29/17 3-4 pm

Learn how CUNY’s institutional repository can help maximize your research impact. We will demonstrate how to post your scholarly work to Academic Works and talk more about your rights as an author. Bring your files on a flash drive, including conference presentations, and we’ll guide you through the process of posting your work. The final, peer-reviewed version of an article (not the published version) is best but feel free to bring what you have.
Open to all City Tech Faculty
DATES: March 29, 3-4:00 
VENUE: Library Eclassroom, Atrium 540
http://library.citytech.cuny.edu
RSVP and questions to Prof. Monica Berger mberger@citytech.cuny.edu

Do academic social networks share academics’ interests?

Social networking services for academics are great for networking and getting feedback but at what cost to your privacy? How are these services monetizing you and your work? “Do academic social networks share academics’ interests?” in the Times Higher Education  is truly eyeopening! And don’t forget that Academia.edu is not an .edu and should be a .com.
There are many other ways to share your scholarship including depositing your work in Academic Works and subject pre-print repositories.

Airing dirty laundry for Open Access Week

I sat down in front of my work PC to post something about Open Access Week, and now all I can think about is the vulgar state of my desktop.
Exhibit Adesktop
I’m a librarian so…what do I have to say for myself? In my defense, it’s been a really busy semester! I got a little carried away and started cutting corners. Screen-casting images to the desktop here. Downloading files, and saving to the desktop there. At least 30 percent of these files are duplicate saves, and many are destined for the recycle bin, but I can’t be exactly sure. What I am certain of is this is no way to store and organize digital things! (FYI, my personal desktop is in less of a state.)
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City Tech Open Access Advocates: Maura Smale, Library

This year’s International Open Access Week theme is Open Access in Action. Accordingly, we are profiling City Tech faculty who have made taken the time to repeatedly contribute their work to Academic Works, our institutional repository. Academic Works helps increase the impact of your scholarship but did you know that Open Access is a social good? When your scholarship is open access, everyone, from your students to scholars in less developed countries, can read and use your work!
Wrapping up Open Access Week 2016, our final profile is Maura Smale, Chair, Library.
How was your experience contributing to Academic Works?
Setting up an account and uploading my articles to Academic Works has been easy. I appreciate that I can link from my professional website to Academic Works without fear that my articles will disappear over time, since preservation is a core part of the mission of Academic Works.
Any other comments about Academic Works or Open Access?
Having my articles in Academic Works came in handy when I was preparing my application for promotion last year. The download statistics that the repository provides offer an indication of the impact of my scholarly work, and I was pleased to include them in my PARSE along with citation counts.

City Tech Open Access Advocates: Ashwin Satyanarayana, CST

This year’s International Open Access Week theme is Open Access in Action. Accordingly, we are profiling City Tech faculty who have made taken the time to repeatedly contribute their work to Academic Works, our institutional repository. Academic Works helps increase the impact of your scholarship but did you know that Open Access is a social good? When your scholarship is open access, everyone, from your students to scholars in less developed countries, can read and use your work!
Our second City Tech faculty we’re profiling is Ashwin Satyanarayana, Computer Systems Technology.
How and where did you hear about Academic Works?
I heard about Academic Works from the Library’s summer “Boost Your Scholarly Profile” series.
How was your experience contributing to Academic Works?
It was an easy and smooth experience to upload my articles on Academic Works. The staff were very helpful in making any changes i suggested. Thanks to Monica Berger for the support and help.
Did any of your works get a new or different audience? Tell us more.
Yes! I received a few emails from CIty Tech faculty who without Academic Works would probably not notice my work, and also would like to collaborate. Also, thanks to the Library blog which had the article: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/library/whats-new-in-academic-works-2/
Any other comments about Academic Works or Open Access?
I think Academic Works should be advertised more, as many faculty members would benefit from it. I know that faculty members in our department are still not aware of it.

City Tech Open Access Advocates: Boyan Kostadinov, Mathematics

This year’s International Open Access Week theme is Open Access in Action. Accordingly, we are profiling City Tech faculty who have made taken the time to repeatedly contribute their work to Academic Works, our institutional repository. Academic Works helps increase the impact of your scholarship but did you know that Open Access is a social good? When your scholarship is open access, everyone, from your students to scholars in less developed countries, can read and use your work! 
Boyan Kostadinov
Our first City Tech faculty we’re profiling is Boyan Kostadinov, Mathematics Department. 
How and where did you hear about Academic Works?
Prof. Monica Berger came across my contributions on Researchgate and she contacted me and suggested that I consider making submissions to Academic Works, a newly launched CUNY-wide platform for hosting open access scholarly and pedagogical works. Apparently, many other colleges and universities across the US are using the Digital Commons platform of Bepress for hosting open access institutional repositories.
How was your experience contributing to Academic Works?
I submitted to Academic Works six presentations and articles, and they were all promptly reviewed and approved. The submission procedure was well-structured and simple to follow. It took me only a few minutes to make a submission. I plan to submit there a number of other scholarly and pedagogical works, including open access instructional materials.
Did any of your works get a new or different audience? Tell us more.
I find the Author Dashboard quite useful. In particular, over the last 40 days, since I submitted my works there, they were downloaded 30 times by people from 8 different countries on 5 continents. The Author Dashboard also includes details about the educational and commercial institutions, where the searches originated from.
Any other comments about Academic Works or Open Access?
I am sympathetic to the ideals of the open access movement, which seeks to remove barriers to learning by making information freely available to everybody irrespective of their means, and I do believe this is the future of academic publishing. However, in today’s world, open access academic publishing can be a problematic–faculty need to be careful to avoid predatory publishers, low quality and sometimes unethical publishers which provide immediate open access for a fee.

Don’t sign away your copyright when you publish!

Know Your Rights as an Author: A Workshop for Faculty 11/1-media-1Faculty: You can choose the best publisher for your work and retain some important rights such as being able to add your work to CUNY Academic Works without waiting through an embargo period. Don’t sign away all your rights when you sign a standard publisher’s agreement. How? Learn more at our Author Rights workshop on Nov. 1 and also check out SPARC’s Author Rights information, especially the SPARC Addendum.

Celebrate Open Access Week 2016! Save these dates

The library is featuring a series of events for both faculty and students to celebrate Open Access Week 2016.

For students (and faculty too):

Screening of Internet’s Own Boy, Oct. 27, 12:45-2:30 p.m., Library Multimedia Center, A432. Please consider bringing your class to an additional screening!  details: http://bit.ly/2ettAtl


For faculty:
Author Rights Workshop, Nov. 1, 4-5:30 PM, Library Multimedia Center, A432 details: http://bit.ly/2ehYAjy

Academic Works Posting Party, Nov. 2, 10-11:30 AM, Library eclassroom, A540 details: http://bit.ly/2eleivS

Academic Works Posting Party Nov. 2

aw-posting-party-plasmaLearn how CUNY’s institutional repository can help maximize your research impact. We will demonstrate how to post your scholarly work to Academic Works and talk more about your rights as an author. Bring your files, including conference presentations, and we’ll guide you through the process of posting your work. The final, peer-reviewed version of an article (not the published version) is best but feel free to bring what you have.
Coffee and cookies will be served! Open to all City Tech Faculty
DATES: November 2, 10-11:30 AM
VENUE: Library Eclassroom, Atrium 540
http://library.citytech.cuny.edu
RSVP and questions to Prof. Monica Berger mberger@citytech.cuny.edu