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
Open access
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
Open Access Town Hall
Now updated with new date and time The university community is invited to participate in a town hall about academic publishing and open access practices at The University of Texas at Austin on Thursday, March 11th at 3:30pm. The event is co-sponsored by the Provost’s Sustainable Open Scholarship (SOS) Working… read more
TSW Highlight: Black History
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest January 16-31, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 31 Access to Penn State scholarly research expands through two new agreements | Penn State University news.psu.edu/story/645842/2… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 25 Assault on open access to science in india downtoearth.org.in/blog/science-t… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 25 Open access publishing could end academic elitism in science dailycal.org/2021/01/22/ope… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 22 Let it flow… 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 December 16-31, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 31 Top 10 APIs for Museums programmableweb.com/news/top-10-ap… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 26 Elsevier and Wiley Declare War on Research Community in India newsclick.in/Elsevier-Wiley… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 22 Billion-Dollar Book Companies Are Ripping Off Public Schools newrepublic.com/article/160649… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 22 Visions of Success: Academic Libraries in a Post COVID-19 World libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=V… Texas… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest December 1-15, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 15 Simba Information: Cost of Open Access Book Publishing Goes Under the Microscope heraldmailmedia.com/news/state/sim… via @HeraldMailNews Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 14 Voices : Open access: A problem way beyond one nation one subscription timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/o… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 11 Advance science in Africa through open access journals universityworldnews.com/post.php?story… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 10 Library… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest November 16-30, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 26 Nature Journals To Charge Authors Hefty Fee To Make Scientific Papers Open Access via @IFLScience: iflscience.com/editors-blog/n… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 26 Accessibility: What’s so hard about making things simple? openaccessgovernment.org/making-things-… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 23 Accelerating social sciences reach a fork in the road universityworldnews.com/post.php?story… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 20 Hydrogen Peroxide, Lollipops,… read more
