Please join us on Wednesday, Feb. 21st at noon in PCL Learning Lab 4 to hear UT Austin iSchool graduate student, Stephen McLaughlin, speak about Sci-Hub and LibGen. There will be plenty of time for discussion, so bring your questions. Sci-Hub and LibGen in Perspective Over the past decade, websites… read more
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Happy Fair Use Week!
This week is Fair Use Week and UT Libraries is participating by hosting a Copyright & Fair Use workshop on Wednesday and by joining in the online discussion via social media. If you want to see everything that is happening around the country this week, please see the Association of… read more
Top 5 Things We Tweeted This Year!
These are our top 5 tweets for 2016! Thanks for all the Twitter love, everybody! Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo The @utlibraries scholarly publishing site is now live! Learn about #openaccess, #opendata, #copyright and more! http://goo.gl/EM493D Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo ACRL Releases Updated Scholarly Communication Toolkit http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/12559#.V_K4uLRy3x4.twitter … Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo More #openaccess… read more
Carla Hayden: New Librarian Of Congress
We at Texas ScholarWorks wanted to congratulate Carla Hayden on her appointment as the new Librarian of Congress! She is not only the first women to hold the post, but the first African American. We wish her luck and we are confident that she will provide the knowledge and experience… read more
Google Books copyright case
The Google Books copyright case (Authors Guild vs Google) is finally over – more than 10 years after it started. The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal from the authors which means the Second Circuit Court decision stands – that the Google Books digitization project was a fair use.… read more
Scholarly publishing site live
Scholarly communication learning opportunities
Winter/spring semester 2016 is full of learning opportunities on a variety of scholarly communication topics. Friday, February 12th, 12:30-1:30: Deceptive -vs- ethical publishing practices. PCL 1.124 Wednesday, February 17th, 1:00-2:00: Copyright and academic work. Learning Lab 2 (PCL 2.340). Wednesday, March 2nd, 12:00-1:00: Statistics in Texas ScholarWorks. PCL 1.124 UT… read more
Happy Birthday to You!
A district judge ruled yesterday that Warner-Chappell does not own the copyright to Happy Birthday. Warner-Chappell had been collecting licensing fees on the song that reportedly totaled 2 million dollars a year. For more information about the ruling: http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2015/09/happy-birthday-to-everyone-candles.html http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/u2yv5yz8/california-central-district-court/rupa-marya-v-warner-chappell-music-inc/
Fair Use Week is coming
In celebration of all things fair use, UT Austin will be participating in Fair Use Week, Feb. 23th-27th. We’ll have a blog post from some UT Austin folks who were involved in creating a jazz appreciation MOOC, and we’ll be promoting the events, videos, and general expertise that are being… read more
