Our Academic Works posting parties are a special opportunity for us to meet faculty. Yesterday, I met Claudia Hernandez from Architectural Technology. She and Ting Chin presented a paper at the national conference related to first year students in design and architecture, National Conference of the Beginning Design Student.
They wrote a wonderful paper ANALOG:DIGITAL, The Digital Spine: A 1 x 1 Strategy for Integrating Digital Tools in Foundation Design Studios. The problem is that the paper is only available as part of an entire book for sale on Lulu.com.
Not only is it hard to find their article, no one can read their work unless they buy the ebook. And their work isn’t preserved for perpetuity.
But now that their article in Academic Works, they are part of the conversation of scholarship. Other architecture and design instructors interested in pedagogy will find their work and it will rise towards the top in a Google Scholar search. We look forward to learning more about any new opportunities that arise out of Claudia and Ting sharing via Academic Works.
Remember, Academic Works helps amplify the impact of your scholarship whether it is published in a traditional journal or not. For work that isn’t easy to find or isn’t freely online, Academic Works is your best opportunity to get out there! And, as a bonus, you get monthly reports of how many times your work has been downloaded which is evidence of the impact of your work.
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.
Know Your Rights as an Author: A Workshop for Faculty 11/1
Celebrate Open Access Week 2016 by joining us for a discussion on author rights on Nov. 1.
Don’t sign away your rights! Your decisions today regarding your scholarship can affect you in the future. Learn how to better understand publisher contracts and how you can keep key rights to your scholarship by using the SPARC Author Addendum, a legal instrument that modifies the publisher’s agreement.
Wine and cheese will be served!
Open to all City Tech Faculty
DATE: November 1, 2016
VENUE: Multimedia Projection Room, Atrium 432
TIME: 4-5:30
http://library.citytech.cuny.edu
DATE: November 1, 2016
VENUE: Multimedia Projection Room, Atrium 432
TIME: 4-5:30
http://library.citytech.cuny.edu
RSVP to Prof. Monica Berger mberger@citytech.cuny.edu
Academic Works Posting Parties 10/20 and 11/2
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, 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: October 20, 2-3:30 and November 2, 10-11:30 am|
VENUE: Library Eclassroom, Atrium 432|
http://library.citytech.cuny.edu
RSVP and questions to Prof. Monica Berger mberger@citytech.cuny.edu
What’s New in Academic Works? Presentations and articles from A. Satyanarayana
What’s new in Academic Works? We recently added three computing-related works by City Tech’s Ashwin Satyanarayana (Computer Systems Technology) and CST undergraduate student researchers Rosemary Chinchilla and Mariusz Nuckowski.
Ashwin Satyanarayana and Rosemary Chinchilla, “Ensemble Noise Filtering for Streaming Data using Poisson Bootstrap Model Filtering”
Ashwin Satyanarayana,”Performance modeling of CMOS inverters using support vector machines (SVM) and adaptive sampling”
Ashwin Satyanarayana and Mariusz Nuckowski, “Data Mining using Ensemble Classifiers for Improved Prediction of Student Academic Performance”
What’s New in Academic Works?
What’s new in Academic Works? We have new climate-related articles co-authored by Satya Prakash and Hamidreza Norouzi (Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technology) and Reginald Blake (Physics). Hamid is our new director of Undergraduate Research!
Satya Prakash, Hamidreza Norouzi, M. Azarderakhsh, Reggie Blake, and K. Tesfagiorgis: “Global Land Surface Emissivity Estimation From AMSR2 Observations”
Satya Prakash, Imaranali M. Momin, Ashis K. Mitra, Partha S. Bhattacharjee, Fanglin Yang, and Vijay Tallapragada, “An Early Assessment of Medium Range Monsoon Precipitation Forecasts from the Latest High-Resolution NCEP-GFS (T1534) Model over South Asia”
Satya Prakash, Ashis K. Mitra, Amir AghaKouchak, Zhong Liu, Hamidreza Norouzi, and D. S. Pai, “A preliminary assessment of GPM-based multi-satellite precipitation estimates over a monsoon dominated region”
Boost Your Scholarly Profile! Task 4: Submit your work to City Tech’s institutional repository, CUNY Academic Works
Learn more about CUNY’s Institutional Repository, Academic Works and how it will make your scholarship be read more and cited more. The guide walks you through the steps of submitting your work.
http://LibGuides.citytech.cuny.edu/c.php?g=464871&p=3178095
About this series:
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/.
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.
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New in Academic Works: Scholarship on Louisa May Alcott by Nina Bannett
What’s new in Academic Works? This month, we highlight two book chapters on Louisa May Alcott by Prof. Nina Bannett, Chair of City Tech’s English department. Read them here:
Cuban Femininity and National Unity in Louisa May Alcott’s Moods and Elizabeth Stoddard’s ‘Eros and Anteros.’
and
“Unrighteous Compact”: Louisa May Alcott’s Resistance to Contracts and Promises in Moods
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/
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.
