As part of our OA Week 2024 celebrations, we hosted a discussion on October 23rd about various open access topics. I’ll be recapping those discussions here on the OA blog. Today, I’ll share what we discussed related to open access business models. There are many types of OA business models.… read more
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Preprints
As part of our OA Week 2024 celebrations, we hosted a discussion on October 23rd about various open access topics. I’ll be recapping those discussions here on the OA blog. Today, I’ll share what we discussed related to preprints. For a little context: Preprints are articles that are posted online… read more
Theses, dissertations, and embargoes
As part of our OA Week 2024 celebrations, we hosted a discussion on October 23rd about various open access topics. I’ll be recapping those discussions here on the OA blog. First up – embargoing electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) For a little context: at UT Austin, all masters and PhD… read more
OA Initiatives Annual Report
The Open Access (OA) Initiatives Working Group is pleased to share our report on activities for Sept. 1, 2023 through Aug. 31, 2024. Here are a couple highlights from the report: Our OA initiatives saved UT researchers over $675,000 on APCs during the 2023-2024 fiscal year During that same reporting… read more
Happy Open Access Week 2024!
An international celebration of open access is taking place this week. This is the first in a series of posts about open access. UT Libraries also has a free discussion about open access scheduled for noon on Wednesday in PCL Learning Lab 4. Unfortunately, knowledge isn’t free. Much of the… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest October 16 – October 31, 2023
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 27 Open Science sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 26 Texas ScholarWorks Upgrade sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 25 Resources for Support and Development of OER at UT Austin sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 24 Wiley and DEAL Consortium to sign five-year agreement | Research Information – goo.gl/alerts/5puR21 Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 24 Community Over Commercialization: OA… read more
Open Science
An international celebration of open access (OA) is taking place this week. This is the fifth and final post in a series of daily posts about open access. Open science, or open scholarship, is the effort to make the entire research process transparent and accessible to everyone. Open science reflects… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Upgrade
An international celebration of open access (OA) is taking place this week. This is the fourth post in a series of daily posts about open access. The Libraries are excited to announce that we have a major upgrade coming for our institutional repository, Texas ScholarWorks (TSW). The software running TSW… read more
Supporting Open Access Initiatives
An international celebration of open access (OA) is taking place this week. This is the second in a series of daily posts about open access. UT Libraries also has a free, online workshop today about support for OA publishing at UT. Yesterday, our OA Week post was about the basics… read more
Happy Open Access Week 2023
An international celebration of open access is taking place this week. This is the first in a series of daily posts about open access. UT Libraries also has a free, online workshop tomorrow about support for open access publishing at UT. Unfortunately, knowledge isn’t free. Much of the research being… read more
