Starting this month, we will create a digest every 2 weeks of the tweets we have sent out via Texas ScholarWorks and share it here. We try to find any interesting news pertaining to Open Access, archives, and libraries, in general. Remember, you can also follow us on Twitter here:… read more
Open Access Week 2019
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
OA Week 2018: Bringing It All Together
Open educational resources (OER) – instructional resources made from open materials – are a logical endpoint when discussing open access initiatives. At UT Libraries, we’re committed to promoting the adoption and creation of OER across campus. Our OER Working Group’s efforts were recently discussed on Tex Libris, and they have included revamping the OER LibGuide and… read more
OA Week 2018: Engaging Early and Often
A key component of scholarly communication is, in fact, communication. What’s the point of making information available if engagement doesn’t follow? One way of facilitating increased engagement with scholarly literature is through the hosting of preprint articles on institutional repositories and preprint servers. Preprints are typically defined as scholarly articles… read more
OA Week 2018: Going to the Source
Open data is defined as “research data that is freely available on the internet; permits any user to download, copy, analyze, re-process, pass to software or use for any other purpose; and is without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself”… read more
OA Week 2018: Emphasis on Access
With a name like open access, it goes without saying that accessing scholarly literature is not just an important piece of OA initiatives, but a primary goal. One popular method of ensuring access to open materials has been through the utilization of institutional repositories. Institutional repositories are “digital collections capturing and preserving… read more
Open Access Week 2018
It’s that time of year again – Open Access Week kicks off today! This year’s theme is Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge. Open knowledge initiatives are inherently disruptive, labor-intensive, and time-consuming. When we design and implement these initiatives, we need to think carefully about who is likely to benefit… read more
Free events for Open Access Week
Open Access Week is Oct. 22-28th. There will be several free online events taking place that week that anyone can participate in. Here are a few: Webinar: Economics and Sustainability of Open Access, hosted by Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Thursday, Oct. 25th at 7:30am Central. Click on the… read more
OA Week 2017 Summary
Thank you to everyone who helped with Open Access Week 2017 activities! I wanted to share with you a summary of our celebration this year. In person activities: Sign up for an ORCID ID Tuesday, Oct. 24th, from 1-3 in the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Building 18 students, faculty,… read more
ORCID and Cookies in CLA today
Come visit us over in the CLA building today from 1-3pm. We’ll set up on the main floor hallway and will be talking about ORCID identifiers. If you want to learn more about ORCID or just want to chat with some friendly librarians, that’s where you can find us.
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