In celebration of Open Education Week 2026, the Senate of College Councils and UT Libraries partnered to ask students to nominate instructors who have positively impacted their educational experience through their use of free or low-cost materials. We’re pleased to recognize a few of our nominees this week as Affordable… read more
AFFORDABLE EDUCATION CHAMPION SPOTLIGHT: DR. HANNAH LEWIS
In celebration of Open Education Week 2026, the Senate of College Councils and UT Libraries partnered to ask students to nominate instructors who have positively impacted their educational experience through their use of free or low-cost materials. We’ll be recognizing a few of our nominees this week as Affordable Education… read more
AFFORDABLE EDUCATION CHAMPION SPOTLIGHT: PROFESSOR OGANDO LAVIN
In celebration of Open Education Week 2026, the Senate of College Councils and UT Libraries partnered to ask students to nominate instructors who have positively impacted their educational experience through their use of free or low-cost materials. We’ll be recognizing a few of our nominees this week as Affordable Education… read more
AFFORDABLE EDUCATION CHAMPION SPOTLIGHT: DR. REBECCA GAVILLET
In celebration of Open Education Week 2026, the Senate of College Councils and UT Libraries partnered to ask students to nominate instructors who have positively impacted their educational experience through their use of free or low-cost materials. We’ll be recognizing a few of our nominees this week as Affordable Education… read more
AFFORDABLE EDUCATION CHAMPION SPOTLIGHT: DR. ANN THIJS
In celebration of Open Education Week 2026, the Senate of College Councils and UT Libraries partnered to ask students to nominate instructors who have positively impacted their educational experience through their use of free or low-cost materials. We’ll be recognizing a few of our nominees this week as Affordable Education… read more
AFFORDABLE EDUCATION CHAMPION SPOTLIGHT: CARLEY LAW
In celebration of Open Education Week 2026, the Senate of College Councils and UT Libraries partnered to ask students to nominate instructors who have positively impacted their educational experience through their use of free or low-cost materials. We’ll be recognizing a few of our nominees this week as Affordable Education… read more
AFFORDABLE EDUCATION CHAMPIONS 2026
Congratulations to our 2026 Affordable Education Champions! To wrap up Open Education Week 2026, UT Libraries is proud to announce the 2026 Affordable Education Champions. This year, we received a record of 178 nominations and are thrilled that the student body was impacted by their professors in this way. Affordable Education… read more
Open Education Week 2026
Happy Open Education Week 2026! Today marks the start of Open Education Week! Open Educational Resources are openly licensed materials that can be: Retained Reused Revised Remixed Redistributed OER can make a huge difference to our students. In anonymous surveys, students report using the money they saved from having to… read more
Top downloads from Texas ScholarWorks – June 2025
These were the top ten downloaded items from Texas ScholarWorks (TSW) last month. Creativity as a learned skill : the role of deliberate practice in the development of creativity – 5233 downloads The Daily Texan, April 2, 1986 – 2701 downloads Permanent underground : radical sounds and social formations in… read more
UT Libraries and TDL supporting new OA journal
The journal, Constitutional Studies, has been relaunched as a multilingual, open access journal, publishing on the theory and practice of constitutional government around the world. It’s published by the International Association of Constitutional Law and the Comparative Constitutions Project. UT Libraries and Texas Digital Library (TDL) are supporting the infrastructure… read more







