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
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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
New Open Access Journal
This is the fourth in our series of OA Week 2021 blog posts about open access activities at UT Austin. The theme this year is “It Matters How we Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity”, and that’s why we are so excited to announce a new mathematics journal, Ars Inveniendi Analytica.… read more
Open Initiative Support at UT Libraries
This is the third in our series of OA Week 2021 blog posts. Today we’ll be talking a bit more about our efforts to create a more sustainable scholarly publishing ecosystem. First a very brief overview of scholarly publishing and how we got here. We’ll be talking primarily about journal… read more
Infrastructure & Support for OER Adoption & Development at UT Austin
This blog post is part of our Open Access Week series. The theme of Open Access 2021 is “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.” Open educational resources (OER) are a critical feature of the open access content landscape. Per the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC),… read more
Happy Open Access Week!
October 25-31 is OA Week 2021. For those who are new to open access, you can find a description of what it is and why it’s important here. TLDR: open access works are free to access and licensed in a way that allows for reuse. This blog post is part… read more