Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 14 Coronavirus article free access ‘doesn’t go far enough’ timeshighereducation.com/news/coronavir… via @timeshighered Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 13 Your Guide To Free Google Books (And Its Limitations)- bookriot.com/2020/04/13/fre… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 10 Nature to join open-access Plan S, publisher says nature.com/articles/d4158… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 9… read more
Open access
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest March 16-31, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo 23h Creative Commons Interview with Dr. Lucie Guibault: What Scientists Should Know About Open Access infojustice.org/archives/42216 Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 30 Watch Zoe Saldaña & Eva Longoria Read Kids Books in Spanish as Part of the Save With Stories Campaign remezcla.com/film/eva-longo… via @remezcla Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 30 A Revolution in Science Publishing,… read more
OA During the Pandemic
As we consider, and are thankful for, the steps publishers are taking to open up resources about COVID-19, it’s worth considering why this level of access isn’t always considered necessary. Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei has a very thought-provoking blog post that addresses this issue. I encourage you to check… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest March 01-15, 2020
Mar 9 VCU Libraries will close Open Access Fund for faculty authors July 1 library.vcu.edu/about/news/202… Mar 9 Elsevier signs contract with California State University: News from the CSU Libraries Network: libraries.calstate.edu/csu-elsevier-r… Mar 5 Open Access at UT Blog: Open Education Week 2020 sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Mar 4 The Michael J. Fox Foundation… 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
Wiki Education
If you are interested in having your students contribute to Wikipedia as part of the activities for your class, you may want to consider working with Wiki Education. Instructors who sign up will have access to support materials to help guide their assignment. If you would like to try running… read more
Pressbooks webinar on Nov. 21st
If you are a faculty member at a Texas Digital Library-affiliated institution, you are invited to attend a webinar on Pressbooks, an OER textbook platform. The webinar will be geared towards showing faculty how to use Pressbooks to create OER course materials. Sign up for the free webinar Date: Thursday,… read more
Open Access Week 2019
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
São Paulo Statement on Open Access
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
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
