Marco Pevia (he/him) Undergraduate Student (Senior) College of Liberal Arts, Spanish and Linguistics Today we’re proud to feature student, Marco Pevia (he/him), as part of Open Education Week. Marco is a first generation college student and is in his fourth year pursuing degrees in Spanish and Linguistics with a… read more
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Open Education Fellowship
One of the many ways UT Austin Libraries supports faculty in implementing OER into their coursework is through the Open Education Fellowship. The Open Education Fellowship is a stipend-supported program, in which selected faculty either adopt or create OER to use in place of paid course materials. And the fellows… read more
Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Jocelly Meiners
Dr. Jocelly Meiners Associate Professor of Instruction Department of Spanish and Portuguese Today we’re spotlighting the open education work of UT faculty member, Dr. Jocelly Meiners! Dr. Meiners is Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. A native of San José, Costa Rica, she came to… read more
OER Crash Course
Are you interested in learning more about OER, but don’t know where to start? Check out UTL’s OER Crash Course! This is a self-paced Canvas course, designed to broaden your knowledge about OER, as well as to provide ideas about how you might start implementing these resources into your learning… read more
Happy Fair Use Week!
February 26th-March 1st, 2024 marks the 11th annual Fair Use Week. Fair Use Week is designed to celebrate the limitations and exceptions to copyright law that allow the use of copyrighted materials without needing to ask permission of the copyright owner. You can find out more on our fair use… read more
Fair Use Week
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is again celebrating Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, scheduled for February 20th-24th, 2023. Fair Use Week is designed to celebrate the importance of fair use in the creation of new works – such as books, movies, journal articles, plays, music, art, and much more. ARL… 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 July 16-31, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 31 Science, uninterrupted: Will COVID-19 mark the end of scientific publishing as we know it? news.lib.berkeley.edu/covid-oa Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 31 University Research Should Be Free to All insidehighered.com/views/2020/07/… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 30 This sheriff said he wouldn’t respond to calls at the county’s library,… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest May 1-15, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 14 New open-access archaeology database launched for geochemical artefacts heritagedaily.com/2020/05/new-op… via @HeritageDaily – Archaeology News Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 12 We Will Lose Libraries to COVID-19 by Kate Tkacik Sweeney link.medium.com/TU19fEAHq6 Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 12 “Even before librarians closed their doors against the pandemic, they… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest April 16-30, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 29 The Library of Congress wants to help you remix public domain audio clips theverge.com/2020/4/27/2123… via @Verge Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 27 Here’s what you need to know about UNC libraries, Elsevier and open access dailytarheel.com/article/2020/0… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 27 Open Access, Open Source, and… read more
