On this final day of OA Week, we want to highlight some of the open memberships that UT Austin participates in. We participate in these programs because we want to help create a more sustainable scholarly publishing system. Some of these memberships provide direct benefits to UT Austin authors, and… read more
Archives for October 2020
Openly Available Geology Content
In our continued celebration of OA Week, we’d like to draw your attention to some wonderful resources made available by our beloved geology librarian, the late Dennis Trombatore. The Virtual Landscapes of Texas was a massive effort to compile a collection of mostly public domain works on the early writings… read more
OER Workshop in November
You are invited to a virtual workshop on Friday, November 13 at 9:30am to learn how affordable course material options, including open educational resources (OER) and other materials that are available at low or no cost to students, can help you improve student success through online teaching and learning. Click… read more
PCL Maps
This Wednesday of OA Week, we’d like to highlight a longstanding online resource, the PCL Maps collection. The first maps were scanned and put online in 1994 and now there are about 70,000 maps online out of a total collection of over 250,000 maps. Most of the online maps in… read more
Keyword/Search Term Generator
The second open resource we’d like to highlight this week is the Keyword/Search Term Generator developed at UT Libraries. This tool offers a step by step tutorial to help students break a topic into search terms and brainstorm keywords. The code for this tool is available on GitHub and it’s… read more
Happy OA Week!
October 19-25 is OA Week 2020. For those who are new to open access, you can find a description of what it is and why it’s important here. TLDR: open access works are free to access and licensed in a way that allows for reuse. This year we are celebrating… read more
TSW Highlight: Donald Trump
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest October 1-15, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 14 Preserving Open Access and other at-risk scholarly content portico.org/news/preservin… via @Portico_Digital Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 13 Historians to Digitize Endangered Peruvian Archive ucdavis.edu/news/historian… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 13 Initiative pushes to make journal abstracts free to read in one place nature.com/articles/d4158… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct… read more
Reality Czech Curriculum
The Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL), the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), and the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies are excited to announce the publication of Dr. Christian Hilchey’s course in Czech language and culture, Reality Czech. The curriculum in this… read more
