Scholarly Communications Newsletter, #7
Call for Open Education Fellows
The UT Libraries (UTL) eagerly invites applications for the Open Education Fellows Program, a stipend-support fellowship which supports faculty who will adopt and create open educational resources (OER). Through this program, we aim to reduce the cost of required course materials for UT Austin students and empower instructors to adapt or create course materials that meet their pedagogical goals. The selected adoption/adaptation Fellow(s) will each receive a stipend of $2,000, and the selected author Fellow(s) will receive a stipend of $5,000.
Applications are welcome until October 31, 2024. Apply here. You may also preview the application questions. If you have any questions not addressed in the FAQs, contact Heather Walter, heather.walter@austin.utexas.edu, and please feel free to share this announcement with any of your UT Austin colleagues.
OA Week
International Open Access Week is Oct. 21st – 27th. In honor of OA Week, UT Libraries is hosting an event on Wednesday, Oct. 23rd from 12:00-1:00 in PCL Learning Lab 4 – Trick or Treat: Unmasking the OA Publishing Landscape. We hope to see you there!
We’ve also updated our popular Sticker Shock poster to reflect 2024 prices.
New in Texas ScholarWorks
Chemistry Department News – we now have an archive of news postings from the Chemistry Department website from between 2008 and 2024.
Data & Donuts – documentation, including slides, event posters, and some video, from the very popular workshop series, Data & Donuts, is now being added to TSW.
Scholcomm News
- UNESCO Principles of Open Science Monitoring draft document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eepqGt62NTdgy22jGp-nEsVC8zIvFZvexyIAVj3RdNA/edit#heading=h.yzcbfhb49wsk. Accepting comments until Nov. 30th
- OCEAN has a new site and has announced its latest copyright related learning opportunities for the fall and early winter (all events are free).
- Internet Archive Court Loss Leaves Higher Ed in Gray Area https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/libraries/2024/09/09/internet-archives-court-loss-leaves-higher-ed-gray-area
- Academic Publishing: France’s Publishers on Open Access https://publishingperspectives.com/2024/09/academic-publishing-frances-publishers-on-open-access/
- How to support inclusive practice among students and researchers https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/the-link/blog/blogposts-news-initiatives/support-inclusive-practice-students-researchers/27691442
- Research Article: “We Need to Rethink the Way We Identify Diamond Open Access Journals in Quantitative Science Studies” https://www.infodocket.com/2024/09/18/research-article-we-need-to-rethink-the-way-we-identify-diamond-open-access-journals-in-quantitative-science-studies/
- Scholarly Communications Book Discussion Series https://sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/2024/09/17/scholarly-communications-book-discussion-series/
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