The theme for Open Access Week 2018 was announced earlier this week – Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge. OA Week this year will be October 22nd-28th. You can find more information about OA Week on their website. In the past UT Libraries has participated with both online and in-person… read more
Archives for May 2018
Swedish libraries walk away from Elsevier deal
Y’all may have already seen the announcement last week that the Bibsam Consortium in Sweden has decided not to renew their agreement with Elsevier. The Bibsam Consortium negotiates license agreements on behalf of Swedish universities, government agencies, and research institutes. The Swedish government has set a goal of immediate open… read more
June brown bag discussion
For our June discussion we’ll be talking about information security, privacy, social media, and algorithmic culture and how all those things are impacting our society. If you’d like to read up on any of this before the June event, here are some helpful resources. Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us… read more
Petition against new machine learning journal
A large group of scholars has signed a petition protesting the creation of a new subscription journal from Nature, Nature Machine Intelligence. https://openaccess.engineering.oregonstate.edu/home They argue that most journals in the field are open access with no charges for readers or authors. The people signing the petition have said they will… read more
