Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 9 A guide to Plan S: the open-access initiative shaking up science publishing nature.com/articles/d4158… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 8 $1.4M Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant expands Enslaved.org research msutoday.msu.edu/news/2021/ensl… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 8 TSW Highlights: Arab-American Month sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 7 Twitter won’t let National Archives revive @realDonaldTrump politi.co/3wyfSye via @politico… read more
Open access
Free scholarly publishing event
The landscape of scientific publishing has been shifting for a while but the remote research situations forced by COVID-19 brought many inadequacies of the current system into the limelight. Data management challenges, open access availability, wariness of predatory publishers, and an overwhelming abundance of information avenues make publishing research more… read more
Info on Cambridge UP Deal for UT Austin Authors
Hopefully by now you’ve heard about the UT System deal with Cambridge University Press (CUP). This Read & Publish deal gives the UT community read access to all CUP journals, and also includes unlimited OA publishing for our authors. What does this mean for you as a UT Austin researcher,… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest March 16-31, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 29 The Library of Congress will change its subject heading on the event kfor.com/news/local/lib… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 26 Fugitive Libraries placesjournal.org/article/fugiti… via @PlacesJournal Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 26 Google Scholar’s open-access move ‘sends a powerful message’ researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-world-… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 26 From Fee to Free: The Move to an Open-Access Digital Publication:… read more
First OA issue of Demography
The population research journal, Demography, switched to an open access format published by Duke University Press late last year. They’ve recently released their first OA issue. Demography and Duke University Press have chosen a community supported business model that doesn’t depend on readers or authors to supply funding to maintain… 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
UC Makes a Deal with Elsevier
The University of California and Elsevier have come to an agreement on a transformative big deal: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-news-uc-secures-landmark-open-access-deal-world-s-largest-scientific-publisher Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe has a nice summary on Scholarly Kitchen: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/03/16/the-biggest-big-deal/ Short story – UC now has a deal with Elsevier that provides access to Elsevier’s journals for all UC schools, plus it… read more
New Knowledge Production/Exchange Podcast
SPARC and the Knowledge Equity Lab have teamed up to create a podcast about the politics of knowledge production, exchange, and circulation as well as the structural, global power dynamics that shape it. The podcast is called Unsettling Knowledge Inequities and will have five episodes this first season. You can… read more
Report on Diamond Open Access Journals
A study about diamond open access (OA) journals commissioned by cOAlition S has concluded and published their report. The report found that there are thousands of small diamond OA journals that are largely supported by volunteers, universities, and governments. These journals represent a diverse range of disciplines – 60% HSS,… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest February 1-28, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Feb 26 Massive Google-funded COVID database will track variants and immunity nature.com/articles/d4158… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Feb 26 The Pandemic Has Made An Unlikely Star Out Of A Brooklyn Librarian npr.org/2021/02/24/971… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Feb 24 Studio Ghibli Makes 1,178 Images Free to Download from My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away & Other Beloved Animated… read more
