Representatives from African Open Science Platform, AmeLICA, cOAlition S, OA2020, and SciELO met on May 1, 2019 during the Global Research Council meeting. The five initiatives came up with a joint statement on open access. This statement builds on previous OA statements and hopefully helps continue recent momentum around open… read more
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Check out the first Texas Data Repository Annual Report
Check out our first Texas Data Repository Annual Report, which reports on UT-Austin’s activities in the consortium over the last two years since its launch. https://hdl.handle.net/2152/74154 Some highlights include: • Many upgrades to Dataverse: currently at version 4.9.4 (thanks TDL!!) • 77 dataverses (collections), 430 datasets, and nearly 7000 files.… read more
Norwegian institutions don’t renew Elsevier contract
A consortium of Norwegian institutions has decided not to renew their Elsevier contract for 2019. They were trying to negotiate an agreement that would move from paying for subscriptions to paying for publishing articles open access (as required by 2024 by the Norwegian government). While there is no agreement for… read more
UC terminates Elsevier subscriptions
The University of California system is the most recent institution to back away from their Elsevier subscriptions after negotiations failed. UC had been trying to negotiate a deal that would include subscription access to Elsevier journals for their faculty, staff, and students, but that would also include making all UC… read more
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OA Week 2018: Bringing It All Together
Open educational resources (OER) – instructional resources made from open materials – are a logical endpoint when discussing open access initiatives. At UT Libraries, we’re committed to promoting the adoption and creation of OER across campus. Our OER Working Group’s efforts were recently discussed on Tex Libris, and they have included revamping the OER LibGuide and… read more
OA Week 2018: Engaging Early and Often
A key component of scholarly communication is, in fact, communication. What’s the point of making information available if engagement doesn’t follow? One way of facilitating increased engagement with scholarly literature is through the hosting of preprint articles on institutional repositories and preprint servers. Preprints are typically defined as scholarly articles… read more
OA Week 2018: Going to the Source
Open data is defined as “research data that is freely available on the internet; permits any user to download, copy, analyze, re-process, pass to software or use for any other purpose; and is without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself”… read more
OA Week 2018: Emphasis on Access
With a name like open access, it goes without saying that accessing scholarly literature is not just an important piece of OA initiatives, but a primary goal. One popular method of ensuring access to open materials has been through the utilization of institutional repositories. Institutional repositories are “digital collections capturing and preserving… read more
Open Access Week 2018
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