Open Access Week 2023 event announcement In this session we’ll talk about UT Libraries support for open access (OA) publishing, including support that eliminates article processing charges (APCs) for UT authors. We’ll discuss the main types of OA publishing business models (including OA book publishing), and how the Libraries is… read more
OAWeek
OA Highlight – University of Michigan Press: Fund to Mission
Our last highlight of Open Access Week 2022 is the University of Michigan Press: Fund to Mission. University of Michigan Press publishes about 170 new titles each year. Some areas of focus for the Press include English as a Second Language, classics, Asian studies, political science, and books on Michigan… read more
OA Highlight – CEU Press: Opening the Future
For Thursday of Open Access Week, we’d like to highlight a relatively new OA initiative that we are supporting – CEU Press: Opening the Future. Central European Press specializes in the history of the region, communism, and transitions to democracy. It publishes approximately 25 new monographs per year. Opening the… read more
OA Highlight – Open Access Community Investment Program
Our second open initiative highlight for Open Access Week is the LYRASIS Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP). The OACIP program exists to provide a framework for collectively funding diamond open access journals (meaning journals that do not collect fees from readers or authors). The program is designed to be… read more
OA Highlight – South Asia Open Archives
During OA Week this year we’d like to highlight a few of the open access initiatives that UT Libraries supports. Today we are highlighting our support for the South Asia Open Archives (SAOA). SAOA is a rich, curated collection of open access historical and contemporary resources from and about South… read more
Happy Open Access Week 2022!
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
Save the Date – Open Access Publishing Q&A
Tuesday, October 11th at 1:00pm If you’ve ever been curious about publishing an open access (OA) article, wanted to know what’s involved in running an OA journal, or how OA can work for books and monographs, then please join us for a virtual discussion with these panelists from UT: Paola… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest March 1-15, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 10 Meet the Texas librarian fighting book bans in schools chron.com/politics/artic… via @chron Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 7 Statement on Ukraine arl.org/news/statement… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 3 My Super Hero Is Black- Celebrates The History Of Marvel’s Black Heroes And Creators – blackenterprise.com/my-super-hero-… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 3 Open Access Through Clarity and Transparency:… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest October 16-31, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 31 Open Access Repositories sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 28 New Open Access Journal sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 27 Texas House committee to investigate school districts’ books on race and sexuality texastribune.org/2021/10/26/tex… via @TexasTribune Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 27 Open Initiative Support at UT Libraries sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… #OAWeek2021 Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 26 A Photo Of… read more
Open Access Repositories
This is our fifth and final post for OA Week 2021. Today we are going to share information about a couple open access (OA) repositories that make sharing and using scholarly content easier. There are many kinds of OA repositories. Some of the most well know publication repositories include arXiv… read more
