What is the FC/LSCC Publication Support Workshop Series?
City Tech faculty are cordially invited to participate in the 2023-2024 FC/LSCC Publications Support workshop series, with the goal of each participant setting a long-term goal and making substantial progress on their scholarly endeavors. The series may be of interest to faculty from disciplines where training is not typically focused on publication, to new faculty, and to mid-career and senior faculty seeking to reenergize or refocus their scholarly activities. The group will meet once a month. Meetings include a guest speaker on a topic of interest, as well as group discussions of monthly goals, progress, and challenges.
Workshop presentation recordings and PowerPoints and many other resources supporting writing and publishing are available on this site. Learning materials from workshops prior to 2020 can be found on the library’s guide, Resources for Academic Publishing. City Tech faculty can benefit from the library’s scholarly publishing site as well. Kudos to Faculty Commons Graphic Designer Savonne Andrews for our logo design.
* Meetings are scheduled on the second Friday of the month from 12:00 – 1:30 pm unless otherwise noted. They are hybrid; in-person attendees will meet in Namm 227 (Faculty Commons).
2023-2024 Schedule
| Meeting # | Date | Topic |
| 1 | Friday Sept. 22* 12:00-1:30pmRegistration |
Welcome! Overview of program. A few words by program alumni, Profs. Renata Budny Shelley Smith – Funding and other opportunities within CUNY. Pam Brown – Introduction to undergraduate research opportunities for advancing your scholarship. |
| 2 | Friday Oct. 13 12:00-1:30pm |
Presentation by Prof. Monica Berger – Conducting the literature review – find target journals for publishing your work; get a quick bird’s eye view of your topic; review basics of using the library for the literature review; effectively use Google Scholar, citation managers, and link resolvers; quickly assess a journal and avoid predatory journals. Setting goals and progress report – Review of participant progress since the last meeting. Set goals for next meeting. |
| 3 | Friday Nov. 10 12:00-1:30pm |
Presentations by Profs. Richard Hanley – The editor’s perspective. Focus on the peer review process and working effectively with the editor. Setting goals and progress report – Review of participant progress since the last meeting. Set goals for next meeting. |
| 4 | Friday Dec. 8 12:00-1:30pm |
Presentations by Profs. Denise Sutton and Todd Craig — Obtaining book contracts, working with editors, peer review. Setting goals and progress report – Review of participant progress since the last meeting. Set goals for next meeting. |
| January | No meeting | |
| 5 | Friday Feb. 9 12:00-1:30pm |
Presentation by Prof. Tina Kao – IRB approval for research involving human subjects. Setting goals and progress report – Review of participant progress since the last meeting. Set goals for next meeting. |
| 6 | Friday March 8 12:00-1:30pm |
Presentations by Profs. Katherine Gregory and Renata Ferdinand– Qualitative research and scholarly publications, auto-ethnography, mention of work with undergraduate researchers. Setting goals and progress report – Review of participant progress since the last meeting. Set goals for next meeting. |
| 7 | Friday April 12 12:00-1:30pm |
Presentations by Profs. Diana Samaroo & Sandie Han – Educational research and publishing – components of an educational research journal article. Setting goals and progress report – Review of participant progress since the last meeting. Set goals for next meeting. |
| 8 | Friday May 10 12:00-1:30pm |
Presentations by Profs. Monica Berger and Cailean Cooney– Open Publishing There are many paths to open! Learn about resources from CUNY and City Tech library that facilitate authoring preprints, open access monographs and journals, open textbooks, OER, and more. Open publishing makes your research and teaching materials freely available which benefits the broader community and increases your visibility as a scholar and educator. Setting goals and progress report – Review of participant progress since the last meeting and beginning of the year.RECAP OF SERIES – Discussion on publication program and ways to improve. Set up summer writing buddies. |
