It’s that time of year again – Open Access Week kicks off today! This year’s theme is Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge. Open knowledge initiatives are inherently disruptive, labor-intensive, and time-consuming. When we design and implement these initiatives, we need to think carefully about who is likely to benefit… read more
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Free events for Open Access Week
Open Access Week is Oct. 22-28th. There will be several free online events taking place that week that anyone can participate in. Here are a few: Webinar: Economics and Sustainability of Open Access, hosted by Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Thursday, Oct. 25th at 7:30am Central. Click on the… read more
OA Week 2017 Summary
Thank you to everyone who helped with Open Access Week 2017 activities! I wanted to share with you a summary of our celebration this year. In person activities: Sign up for an ORCID ID Tuesday, Oct. 24th, from 1-3 in the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Building 18 students, faculty,… read more
ORCID and Cookies in CLA today
Open Access Week 2017
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
