We are proud to announce that UT Austin is celebrating Fair Use Week! UT students, faculty, and staff use fair use every day. Professors teach, undergraduates learn, and researchers advance knowledge relying on fair use to use copyrighted information. Fair Use Week is an occasion to promote the opportunities presented… read more
Archives for February 2015
Fair Use and MOOCs
As Fair Use Week begins, Francesca Giannetti and David Hunter considers the use of readily and legally available digital media for MOOCs. Their experience stems from assisting a University of Texas professor with an online jazz appreciation course. In helping University of Texas at Austin professor Jeff Hellmer identify and include… read more
Alcalde interview with Lorraine Haricombe
AHRQ releases public access plan
The Agency for Health Research & Quality (AHRQ) has released their public access plan – a response to the OSTP memo of nearly two years ago. Details of the plan are available here: http://www.ahrq.gov/funding/policies/publicaccess/index.html Very briefly: AHRQ states that authors will be required to submit scholarly papers to PubMed Central. AHRQ-funded… read more
