The UT OER Working Group is hosting a workshop to introduce participants to open educational resources (OER). Instructors can leverage the open licenses assigned to OER to offer their students free, immediate access to course materials as well as to copy and adapt those materials to meet the needs of… read more
Archives for August 2022
Save the Date – Open Access Publishing Q&A
Tuesday, October 11th at 1:00pm If you’ve ever been curious about publishing an open access (OA) article, wanted to know what’s involved in running an OA journal, or how OA can work for books and monographs, then please join us for a virtual discussion with these panelists from UT: Paola… read more
UT and the Cambridge University Press Deal
We are about 18 months into our agreement with Cambridge University Press and are pleased with the amount of usage from our campus community and the general public. Check out this post on TexLibris to learn more about how many articles have been published, how many are open access, and… read more
Instructor Learning Community Applications Open
The Open Educational Resources (OER) Working Group eagerly seeks applicants to join its second instructor learning community in Fall 2022. The facilitators will join participants from across disciplines in their efforts to make their courses as financially inclusive as possible by eliminating or substantially lowering course material costs. The emphasis… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest August 1-15, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Aug 13 Low-income countries leading on open access, study finds – Research Professional News – goo.gl/alerts/X3Jj8i Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Aug 9 Libraries in the U.S. and Canada are changing how they refer to Indigenous Peoples theconversation.com/libraries-in-t… via @ConversationCA Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Aug 7 Open access research repositories provide diversity and innovation publishers can’t… read more
TSW Highlights: Dinosaurs Day!
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest July 16-31, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 28 Dismantling the ivory tower’s knowledge boundaries brook.gs/3LeAbI5 via @BrookingsInst Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 28 Springer Nature and University of California Announce First Nature Open Access Agreement … – goo.gl/alerts/L7B1DR Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 26 ‘Libraries Are the Great Equalizers’ chronicle.com/article/librar… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 26 Welcome to the library of the 21st century… read more
