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
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Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest August 1-15, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Aug 15 Libraries Creates Department of Digital Stewardship news.syr.edu/blog/2021/08/1… #SyracuseU Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Aug 14 AYS Open Access Use Grows, Showing Beneficial Outcomes For Students and Faculty news.gsu.edu/2021/08/13/ays… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Aug 13 Major UK Funding Organization Says All Grant Research Must Be Free for All to Access mymodernmet.com/ukri-funding-o… via @mymodernmet Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Aug… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest March 1-15, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 12 Congress Allocates Billions of Dollars to Libraries in COVID Relief Package- bookriot.com/covid-relief-f… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 12 Report on Diamond Open Access Journals sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 12 Restricted Access To COVID-19 Variants Database Draws Criticism From Scientists science.thewire.in/the-sciences/r… via @TheWireScience Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 12 The Evolution of Water Resources Research… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest October 16-31, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 27 How to Genrefy Your Library: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started- bookriot.com/how-to-genrefy… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 26 Why Open Access Is Necessary for Makers eff.org/deeplinks/2020… via @eff Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 26 Can we do open science on Zoom? alkhaleejtoday.co/technology/519… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 26… read more
Open Memberships
On this final day of OA Week, we want to highlight some of the open memberships that UT Austin participates in. We participate in these programs because we want to help create a more sustainable scholarly publishing system. Some of these memberships provide direct benefits to UT Austin authors, and… read more
Openly Available Geology Content
In our continued celebration of OA Week, we’d like to draw your attention to some wonderful resources made available by our beloved geology librarian, the late Dennis Trombatore. The Virtual Landscapes of Texas was a massive effort to compile a collection of mostly public domain works on the early writings… read more
PCL Maps
This Wednesday of OA Week, we’d like to highlight a longstanding online resource, the PCL Maps collection. The first maps were scanned and put online in 1994 and now there are about 70,000 maps online out of a total collection of over 250,000 maps. Most of the online maps in… read more
Keyword/Search Term Generator
The second open resource we’d like to highlight this week is the Keyword/Search Term Generator developed at UT Libraries. This tool offers a step by step tutorial to help students break a topic into search terms and brainstorm keywords. The code for this tool is available on GitHub and it’s… read more
Happy OA Week!
October 19-25 is OA Week 2020. 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 year we are celebrating… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest
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