The Scholarly Communication Group at UT Libraries organizes periodic brown bag discussions on a variety of schol comm topics. These brown bag sessions are open to anyone, although the primary audience is UT Libraries staff. They provide an opportunity to talk through either current or emerging issues for the Libraries and for the University.
Our next brown bag discussion will be May 8th, 2018 at 12:00pm in PCL 1.124. The topic will be a viewing of Siva Vaidhyanathan’s talk from ER&L, Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects People and Undermines Democracy.
Here is the history of our brown bag discussions:
- January 31, 2014: Economics of the scholarly communication ecosystem
- April 18, 2014: Green vs gold OA
- June 13, 2014: Altmetrics
- September 12, 2014: Preview of OA Week 2014
- November 21, 2014: UT Press
- February 20, 2015: Scholarly Communication Strategic Initiative report and Sherpa/Romeo
- March 13, 2015: Open Education Week
- April 10, 2015: ACRL round-up
- June 19, 2015: #icanhazPDF
- September 25, 2015: Texas ScholarWorks
- February 12, 2016: Ethical vs deceptive publishing practices
- March 2, 2016: Statistics in Texas ScholarWorks
- March 21, 2016: Finding and repurposing data
- April 15, 2016: Publication agreements and author rights
- July 14, 2016: Conference round-up
- September 23, 2016: Journal club
- November 2, 2016: Data question and answer with Mike Geruso and Elizabeth Vandewater
- January 12, 2017: OpenCon discussion with Adam McBride
- February 17, 2017: Misinformation and Fake News
- March 31, 2017: ACRL round-up
- July 19, 2017: Digital Badging
- February 21, 2018: SciHub and LibGen in Perspective
- March 28, 2018: The legislative process and SB810
If you have a suggestion for a brown bag topic, please send it to tsw at utlists.utexas.edu
