As the federal government, private funding agencies, and academic publishers push for greater sharing of research outputs, the UT Libraries is positioned to help researchers understand the impacts of new policies and develop skills to facilitate open scholarship. The requirements outlined in the 2022 OSTP Memo on Ensuring Free, Immediate,… read more
OA policies
Enhancing Public Access Workshop
Enhancing Public Access to the Results of Research Supported by DHHS – A Workshop On November 30 – December 1, the National Academies will host a public workshop to inform the development and update of agency public access policies at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest January 1-15, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 15 Archivists Are Mining Parler Metadata to Pinpoint Crimes at the Capitol vice.com/en/article/qjp… via @vice Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 15 Turning the Page: Emory’s leadership in digital publishing and open access expands the scope and reach of new humanities scholarship links.emory.edu/68 via @EmoryUniversity Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 15 A Big Science Publisher… 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
Gates Foundation and AAAS OA agreement
You’ve probably already seen the news, but the Gates Foundation and AAAS have come to an agreement that will allow all Gates Foundation funded research to be published with a CC-BY license in Science, Science Translational Medicine, Science Signaling, Science Advances, Science Immunology, and Science Robotics. This now puts Science… 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
ACRL issues policy statement on OA
The Association of College and Research Libraries has issued a policy statement about open access to scholarship by academic librarians. The statement encourages academic librarians to publish in open access journals or to archive their final manuscript in an open access repository. This seems a long overdue statement as librarians… read more
Dept. of Labor adopts open licensing policy
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has adopted an open licensing policy that requires all intellectual property created under the competitive award process to be licensed with a Creative Commons attribution license. This will allow the public to use, share and build upon the work funder by DOL. More information:… read more
UC OA policy extends to all UC employees
The University of California has expanded the reach of their open access policy by including all UC employees. The Presidential Open Access Policy builds on the Academic Senate open access policy and will include scholarly research authored by clinical faculty, lecturers, staff researchers, postdoc scholars, grad students, and librarians. You can… read more
New chart outlines public access policies
Science has just published a short news story about public access policies at federal agencies. They have a really nice chart showing U.S. science agencies, their budgets, their model of dissemination of research articles, estimated # of articles per year, and when the policy starts. For the full news… read more
