I just read an interesting blog post about Academia.edu by Gary Hall: http://www.garyhall.info/journal/2015/10/18/does-academiaedu-mean-open-access-is-becoming-irrelevant.html Academia.edu (and ResearchGate) come up quite frequently when I talk with faculty, postdocs, and grad students. I’ve always advised that it may be a good tool to use if you are trying to network with your colleagues, but… read more
How has open scholarship helped you?
The Advancing Research Communication & Scholarship (ARCS) conference happened for the first time this past spring. One of the conversations from that conference was about the negative information some people hear about sharing their scholarship more openly. You know, the “if you share your data you’ll get scooped” warning. The… read more
A big OA Week thank you
Thanks to everyone who showed up for OA Week 2014 events! We had great discussions about OA issues and hope we sparked some long term interest in OA. We want to thank the UT Libraries administration for providing financial support for this week. And a big thanks to everyone who… read more
OA Week 2014 Planning Group
Here is the list of the wonderful people who volunteered to plan this year’s Open Access Week events. Roxanne Bogucka Carolyn Cunningham Jee Davis Allyssa Guzman Georgia Harper Colleen Lyon Aizul Ortega Kristi Park Robyn Rosenberg Kathryn Strickland If you have questions about any of the OA Week events, please… read more
Erin McKiernan's talk now available via UTDR
As our OA Week 2014 activities wrap up, we are pleased to announce that the recording of Erin McKiernan’s talk is now available in the UT Digital Repository and in YouTube. UT Digital Repository: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26870 YouTube: http://youtu.be/xakrgOhfqhA
OA Week starts today at UT Austin
Open Access Week 2014 starts today at UT Austin. We’re getting a jump on International Open Access Week with a keynote talk by Dr. Erin McKiernan. Erin is an early career researcher and will be talking about how you can freely share your work and advance your career. Come join… read more
Communication Toolkit
Engage your departments in our OA Week events! Flyers to print or attach to emails OA Week 2014 half sheet flyer PDF OA Week 2014 single flyer JPG Flyer for OA and the Early-Career Researcher PDF Sample message to customize Hello [department] faculty and instructors, The UT Libraries are participating… read more
OA Week 2013 wrap-up
Thanks to everyone who showed up for OA Week 2013 events! We had great discussions about OA issues and hope we sparked some long term interest in OA. A big thanks to everyone who helped make our first OA Week a success. In addition to everyone on the planning group,… read more
OA Week 2013 in review
Dates and times for OA Week 2013 events: #utopenaccess Monday, October 21st, 4-6 pm: Wikipedia Editathon in the Perry Castañeda Library (PCL 1.124) Celebrate Open Access Week by joining other students, faculty, staff, librarians, and community members interested in becoming Wikipedians and improving the open educational content of this online… read more
RiP: A Remix Manifesto additional resources
The documentary being screened at today’s OA Week 2013 event is RiP: A Remix Manifesto. The idea of remix culture is quite fascinating and always brings up many questions. The resources provided below are meant to provide people with additional avenues of exploration into this topic. Video: Everything is a… read more
