Scholarly Communications Newsletter, #6
September 3, 2024
New in Texas ScholarWorks
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) – we’ve added several new collections of materials from the LANIC website. The LANIC website will sunset soon, but these materials will continue to be available via TSW.
State of Texas Advanced Resource Recovery (STARR) – STARR conducts geoscience and engineering research in the state of Texas and we have four new collections in TSW for reports, publications, posters, and presentations.
UT Austin COVID-19 Modeling Consortium – we added almost 100 reports from the Center for Pandemic Decision Science about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Division of Campus & Community Engagement (formerly the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement) – we’ve added several new collections, including Access Magazine, reports, organizational charts, strategic plans, and videos.
Open Access Publishing
The Open Access Initiatives Working Group is pleased to announce that we are now supporting the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and OAPEN. DOAB indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed, OA books and helps users find trusted OA book publishers. OAPEN provides open infrastructure services like hosting, preservation, and discovery to publishers, libraries, and research funders. Both DOAB and OAPEN are important tools for increasing the availability of OA books.
You can find a full list of our support for OA initiatives on our Open Access LibGuide.
ScholComm News
- Springer to make half of its articles open access https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2024/Aug/28/springer-to-make-half-of-its-articles-open-access
- Taylor & Francis publishes 26 open access books on global issues through innovative funding pilot https://www.knowledgespeak.com/news/taylor-francis-publishes-26-open-access-books-on-global-issues-through-innovative-funding-pilot/
- Open access: a diamond in the rough? https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/open-access-a-diamond-in-the-rough/
- Survey: Cost of Course Materials Impacts Student Success https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/health-wellness/2024/08/26/college-students-avoid-courses-high-textbook-costs
- PLOS and the University of South Carolina announce APC-free Open Access publishing agreement https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1055517
- A Different Open Access Model for Journals https://dailynous.com/2024/08/19/a-different-open-access-model-for-journals/
- Authors: make sure you choose the right licence when you publish an article https://home.cern/news/announcement/cern/authors-make-sure-you-choose-right-licence-when-you-publish-article
- Open access scientific publications get more diverse citations https://www.psypost.org/open-access-scientific-publications-get-more-diverse-citations/
- Announcing Scholars Lab Fellowship https://sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/2024/08/13/announcing-scholars-lab-fellowship/
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