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 Promotional Materials
We’re getting excited for Open Access Week 2017 and wanted to share some of the posters we’ve created. They are all licensed CC-BY, so go ahead and reuse/remix them! Sticker Shock OA and OER Paying for Articles – Don’t Do It! Library Haiku ORCID Identifiers We’re having three activities for OA… read more
Open access from a researcher's perspective
As part of our Open Access Week 2017 celebrations, we’ll be sharing guest blog posts from UT Austin researchers throughout the month of October. You can find the posts on the UT Libraries Tex Libris blog. Our first guest post from K. Sata Sathasivan is now available. Check back with… read more
Top 5 Things We Tweeted This Year!
These are our top 5 tweets for 2016! Thanks for all the Twitter love, everybody! Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo The @utlibraries scholarly publishing site is now live! Learn about #openaccess, #opendata, #copyright and more! http://goo.gl/EM493D Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo ACRL Releases Updated Scholarly Communication Toolkit http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/12559#.V_K4uLRy3x4.twitter … Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo More #openaccess… read more
Top OA author
In celebration of Open Access Week 2016, we’d like to highlight our top OA author, Dr. Chandra Bhat. Dr. Bhat, a Professor in the Dept. of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Center for Transportation Research, has more articles in our online archive, Texas ScholarWorks (TSW), than anyone… read more
UT Libraries institute OA policy
AUSTIN, Texas—The University of Texas Libraries has taken the first step to institute an open access policy for staff at The University of Texas at Austin. A modest plan to induce Libraries staff to deposit articles and conference papers into Texas ScholarWorks, the university’s digital repository, was recently approved by… read more
Open Access Week 2016
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
Open Textbooks save students $1.5 million
The University of Minnesota announced today that the Open Textbook Network has saved students $1.5 million dollars through the adoption of open textbooks. The Open Textbook Library has over 200 open textbooks that anyone can use. For more information about this exciting achievement, see the official announcement: http://discover.umn.edu/news/teaching-education/u-ms-open-textbook-network-reports-student-savings-15-million-open-textbooks
OA Spectrum Evaluation Tool
SPARC has announced the launch of the Open Access Spectrum Evaluation Tool. The tool provides a concrete way to analyze the openness of a particular journal. The tool measures journal policies regarding reading/reuse rights, author posting rights, machine readability, compliance with funder & institutional mandates, and other openness indicators. Five hundred… read more
Wikipedia edit-a-thon is part of OA Week
To celebrate Open Access Week 2015, SPARC is promoting a week-long Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The purpose of the edit-a-thon is to “improve existing open access related pages, create new content where it needs to be added, and translate open access related pages into new languages”. More information about the Wikipedia edit-a-thon can… read more
