Open access

November 1, 2017, Filed Under: Open access, Publishing

Evaluating Journal Quality

With the proliferation of new journals enabled by online publishing, it can be difficult for researchers to know if a particular journal is worth publishing in. Here are two resources that could help librarians and researchers when looking into an unfamiliar journal. The first is the Quality Open Access Market… read more

October 30, 2017, Filed Under: OAWeek, Open access

OA Week 2017 Summary

Thank you to everyone who helped with Open Access Week 2017 activities! I wanted to share with you a summary of our celebration this year. In person activities: Sign up for an ORCID ID Tuesday, Oct. 24th, from 1-3 in the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Building 18 students, faculty,… read more

October 24, 2017, Filed Under: OAWeek, Open access, Publishing

ORCID and Cookies in CLA today

Come visit us over in the CLA building today from 1-3pm. We’ll set up on the main floor hallway and will be talking about ORCID identifiers. If you want to learn more about ORCID or just want to chat with some friendly librarians, that’s where you can find us.

October 23, 2017, Filed Under: OAWeek, Open access, Open data

Open Access Week 2017

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

October 18, 2017, Filed Under: Copyright, Open access, Open data, Repositories

Office hours today

If you have a question about Texas Data Repository, Texas ScholarWorks, managing your data, copyright, or open access come visit us today (10/18). We’ll be in PCL 3.120 from 10:00am-12:00pm.

October 16, 2017, Filed Under: OAWeek, Open access

OA Week Promotional Materials

We’re getting excited for Open Access Week 2017 and wanted to share some of the posters we’ve created. They are all licensed CC-BY, so go ahead and reuse/remix them! Sticker Shock OA and OER Paying for Articles – Don’t Do It! Library Haiku ORCID Identifiers We’re having three activities for OA… read more

October 5, 2017, Filed Under: OAWeek, Open access

Open access from a researcher's perspective

As part of our Open Access Week 2017 celebrations, we’ll be sharing guest blog posts from UT Austin researchers throughout the month of October. You can find the posts on the UT Libraries Tex Libris blog. Our first guest post from K. Sata Sathasivan is now available. Check back with… read more

September 5, 2017, Filed Under: Fair use, Open access, Public access, Repositories, Texas ScholarWorks

Building Digital Humanities: The Prague Spring Project

In this video, European Studies and Digital Scholarship Librarian Ian Goodale talks about working with UT faculty and LBJ Library collections to build a website about the 1968 Czech revolt known as the Prague Spring. The full collection of the primary documents are available on Texas ScholarWorks.

August 9, 2017, Filed Under: Open access, Texas ScholarWorks

80 years of Texas Business Review Available Online with Help from Texas ScholarWorks

Bureau of Business Research announces new access to all articles going back to 1927. In connection with the celebration of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Bureau of Business Research (BBR) at The University of Texas at Austin, the Bureau is pleased to announce new digital access to… read more

July 20, 2017, Filed Under: Open access, Open data

OA for archaeologists

The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) has started a fund to help authors pay article processing charges for Internet Archaeology or depositing fees at ADS. The fund is supported by donations from individuals around the world who are interested in expanding open access to archaeology research.