Knowledge unfortunately isn’t free. Much of the research being conducted at universities, colleges, and institutes around the world is written up by professors, graduate students, and research associates and published in toll-access (subscription) journals. Anyone lacking a subscription to that journal will not be able to access the articles published there. This… read more
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Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest October 1-15, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 15 Terminology explained | Open access explained | Library | University of Leeds – goo.gl/alerts/uQrNE #GoogleAlerts Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 12 Publishing paper in top journal costs about $1,000, says study timeshighereducation.com/news/publishin… via @timeshighered Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 12 Why schools are failing female students for success in tech careers openaccessgovernment.org/why-schools-ar… Texas… 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
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest February 1-28, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Feb 26 Massive Google-funded COVID database will track variants and immunity nature.com/articles/d4158… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Feb 26 The Pandemic Has Made An Unlikely Star Out Of A Brooklyn Librarian npr.org/2021/02/24/971… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Feb 24 Studio Ghibli Makes 1,178 Images Free to Download from My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away & Other Beloved Animated… read more
Public Domain for 2021
Happy New Year! January 1, 2021 marks the date that items published in the year 1925 enter the public domain in the United States. January 1st of any given year is the date that items typically fall into the public domain. This happens 70 years after the death of the author,… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest December 16-31, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 31 Top 10 APIs for Museums programmableweb.com/news/top-10-ap… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 26 Elsevier and Wiley Declare War on Research Community in India newsclick.in/Elsevier-Wiley… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 22 Billion-Dollar Book Companies Are Ripping Off Public Schools newrepublic.com/article/160649… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 22 Visions of Success: Academic Libraries in a Post COVID-19 World libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=V… Texas… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest December 1-15, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 15 Simba Information: Cost of Open Access Book Publishing Goes Under the Microscope heraldmailmedia.com/news/state/sim… via @HeraldMailNews Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 14 Voices : Open access: A problem way beyond one nation one subscription timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/o… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 11 Advance science in Africa through open access journals universityworldnews.com/post.php?story… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 10 Library… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest November 1-15, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 12 The report linked in this article can be found in TSW: repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/83… The article is here: nytimes.com/live/2020/11/1… twitter.com/keribla/status… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 10 Can ‘Open Science’ speed up the search for a COVID-19 vaccine? 5 things you need to know news.un.org/en/story/2020/… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest September 16-30, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep 30 Author James Patterson Gives $2.5 Million So Teachers Can Build Better Libraries via @forbes forbes.com/sites/carliepo… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep 28 ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF) Releases List of the Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books of the Past Decade infodocket.com/2020/09/27/ala… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest September 1-15, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep 14 ‘I literally weep’: anguish as New Zealand’s National Library culls 600,000 books theguardian.com/world/2020/sep… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep 14 OER/Textbooks: OpenStax to Vastly Expand Open Education Library with Support From National Foundations infodocket.com/2020/09/10/oer… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep 11 Censoring Jon Hamm’s Penis Doesn’t Violate Copyright Law, Federal… read more