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
OAWeek
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
Open Access Week 2021
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
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
