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Tag Archives: green open access
Elsevier: Ever More Evil (aka Why Do Authors Boycott Elsevier?)
(Note: This post has been updated and expanded to match the post at the Graduate Center Library blog.) You may have heard of the Cost of Knowledge, a site where researchers publicly express their upset with the business practices of the … Continue reading
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Tagged elsevier, green open access, institutional repositories, self-archiving
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Grad Center Faculty Workshop: Why & How to Submit to Academic Works
Graduate Center faculty, did you know that the vast majority of journals allow authors to make their articles (either the pre-refereed version, the post-refereed version, or the publisher-branded PDF) freely available online? However, the responsibility usually lies with you, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic Works, green open access, institutional repository, open access, self-archiving
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Open Access Week @ GC: Authors’ Rights Workshop, 10/21
Next week (October 20-26, 2014) is Open Access Week, an annual global event promoting open access as a new norm in scholarship and research. At the Graduate Center, we’re celebrating Open Access Week with a workshop about understanding and preserving your rights … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors' Rights, copyright, green open access, Open Access Week
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“For the Public Good”: A Public Institution and Its New Open Access Repository
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently ran a column by Graduate Center Interim President Chase Robinson about the Graduate Center’s recent string of high-profile hires and overall success recruiting prominent and innovative faculty. One reason the Graduate Center is so appealing to … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic Works, cuny, green open access, institutional repository
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Materials from Authors’ Rights Event
Weren’t able to attend last Friday’s workshop “You Know What You Write, But Do You Know Your Rights? Understanding and Protecting Your Rights As an Author”? Attended but want to review the materials again, at your own pace? Here are all … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors' Rights Workshop, green open access, Information Interventions @ CUNY series, institutional repository, repositories, self-archiving
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Open Access (aka Don’t Forget About Repositories!)
(Déjà vu? This post is a very slight reworking of a post I wrote last week for the fantastic JustPublics@365 blog.) Discussion about open access often focuses exclusively on open access journals, and often on the extreme ends of the quality spectrum: the really excellent journals and … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic Works, cuny, disciplinary repositories, green open access, institutional repository
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You Know What You Write, But Do You Know Your Rights?
You are invited to an event in the Information Interventions @ CUNY series: 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 … Continue reading
I’m Having Open Access Policy Envy
Summer tends to be slow at universities, but not this summer at the University of California! UC’s academic senate just passed an open access policy that covers over 8,000 faculty at the 10 UC campuses and could make as many … Continue reading
