This summer, take some time to boost your scholarly profile!
In partnership with the Faculty Commons and Associate Provost Brown, City Tech Library will provide a series of seven do-it-yourself, self-paced tasks for you to update, maintain or create your online scholarly presence. By the end of the summer, your scholarship will be easier to find online and you will be on the path to stardom!
We will release a new task every week. Tasks will include how to create your Google Scholar Profile, creating your scholarly ID, using social media, and how to increase the impact of your work by adding it to CUNY Academic Works http://academicworks.cuny.edu/.
Task 1: Google Yourself!
The purpose of this task is to identify things you want to improve about your scholarly/professional profile. Throughout the summer, we will provide strategies to help you update your online presence and improve access to your scholarship. https://citytech_cuny.libapps.com/LibGuides/admin_c.php?g=464871&p=3178092
Questions? Contact Prof. Monica Berger, Library and check this webpage http://LibGuides.citytech.cuny.edu/c.php?g=464871 throughout the summer for new posts.
Wishing you a productive summer!
Prof. Monica Berger, Chair, Scholarly Communications Committee, Library
Prof. Julia Jordan, Director, Faculty Commons
Associate Provost Pamela Brown
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Why you should submit your scholarship in CUNY Academic Works
There are many benefits to contributing your work to Academic Works!
Want to know more? Here is our new guide.
Ready to submit? Here are concise directions.
- MORE READERS People can and will read you. In addition to other academics or experts in your area, journalists and other members of the general public, including your students, can now read your work. Your previously published work gets a “second life” in Academic Works where it is easily found via Google Scholar and Google. When your work is freely available, your work has significantly greater potential for public good.
- MORE CITATIONS If you have more readers, you will have more citations! You can include citations to your work in your PARSE in the appendix.
- ARTICLE-LEVEL METRICS are available for your work that you can include in your PARSE. Article-level metrics are NOT available via Web of Science and Scopus.
- PRESERVATION: Your work is preserved permanently.
- STABLE URLs for linking to your work.
source: https://blog.digitalcommons.bepress.com/2016/06/09/open-access-100-stories-of-impact/
Take Control of Your Scholarship: An Author’s Rights Workshop
Learn more about copyright, Creative Commons licenses, and how to
better understand publisher contracts. Did you know that you can keep
key rights to your scholarship by using the SPARC Author Addendum, a
legal instrument that modifies the publisher’s agreement? Workshops
are open to all City Tech faculty members.
DATE: Monday, March 21, 2015
TIME: 3:00-4:00 p.m.
VENUE: Small Library Classroom, Atrium 441
RSVP is encouraged to Prof. Monica Berger, mberger@citytech.cuny.edu
How Can Faculty Make Their Work Open?
Barbara Fister in Inside Higher Ed has written a wonderful piece, Open Access Without Tears, on how faculty can make their scholarship open and more widely read.
Faculty: did you know that you can self-archive your work in City Tech’s own repository, Academic Works? Just create your account and then either click on “submit research” under Author’s Corner or contact Monica Berger for help at mberger@citytech.cuny.edu.
Open Scholarship Matters! A Program for Faculty
Open Scholarship Matters!
Oct. 20, 2015, 4-6 PM, Atrium 632, Faculty Lounge, New York City College of Technology Google map :: Wine and cheese will be served.
RSVP to Prof. Monica Berger
City Tech Library and the Faculty Commons invite you to celebrate Open Access Month 2015* with a presentation and discussion featuring guest speakers: Megan Wacha (CUNY Office of Library Services) and Jessie Daniels (JustPublics@365).
How can your scholarship be more visible and meaningful? Reach new readers and make a difference in the world through open scholarship!
Connect with more scholars across the globe.
CUNY’s Academic Works is our new showcase for CUNY faculty scholarship and creative work and helps make scholarship more easily found and, accordingly, read and cited more often.
Make a difference in the world. JustPublics@365 (CUNY Graduate Center) is “reimagining scholarly communication for the public good.” This initiative teaches academics and others how they can use digital media to get their work out to broader audiences as well as how they can apply their work to social justice.
More about our guest speakers:
Megan Wacha, Scholarly Communications Librarian, CUNY Office of Library Services [more about Megan]
Jessie Daniels, Professor of Public Health, Sociology and Psychology at the Graduate Center, JustPublics@365, CUNY Graduate Center
*We’re so excited about Open Access Week 2015, October 19 – 25, that we’re celebrating it all month! Look for more events at City Tech and throughout CUNY.
