The SOS Working Group’s Open Data Subcommittee is reaching out to the campus community to engage researchers through a community town hall on Monday, May 3rd at 10:00am. The Open Data Subcommittee will share preliminary findings from the survey that went out earlier this semester, and will welcome questions and… read more
Archives for April 2021
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest April 1-15, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 9 A guide to Plan S: the open-access initiative shaking up science publishing nature.com/articles/d4158… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 8 $1.4M Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant expands Enslaved.org research msutoday.msu.edu/news/2021/ensl… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 8 TSW Highlights: Arab-American Month sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 7 Twitter won’t let National Archives revive @realDonaldTrump politi.co/3wyfSye via @politico… read more
TSW Highlights: Arab-American Month
Free scholarly publishing event
The landscape of scientific publishing has been shifting for a while but the remote research situations forced by COVID-19 brought many inadequacies of the current system into the limelight. Data management challenges, open access availability, wariness of predatory publishers, and an overwhelming abundance of information avenues make publishing research more… read more
Info on Cambridge UP Deal for UT Austin Authors
Hopefully by now you’ve heard about the UT System deal with Cambridge University Press (CUP). This Read & Publish deal gives the UT community read access to all CUP journals, and also includes unlimited OA publishing for our authors. What does this mean for you as a UT Austin researcher,… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest March 16-31, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 29 The Library of Congress will change its subject heading on the event kfor.com/news/local/lib… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 26 Fugitive Libraries placesjournal.org/article/fugiti… via @PlacesJournal Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 26 Google Scholar’s open-access move ‘sends a powerful message’ researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-world-… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 26 From Fee to Free: The Move to an Open-Access Digital Publication:… read more
