Please join us on Wednesday, Feb. 21st at noon in PCL Learning Lab 4 to hear UT Austin iSchool graduate student, Stephen McLaughlin, speak about Sci-Hub and LibGen. There will be plenty of time for discussion, so bring your questions. Sci-Hub and LibGen in Perspective Over the past decade, websites… read more
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Digital scholarship office hours spring semester
We are offering digital scholarship office hours again this semester. Gilbert Borrego, Allyssa Guzman, Jessica Trelogan and Colleen Lyon will be available to answer any questions you may have about digital scholarship, Texas Data Repository, Texas ScholarWorks, research data services, or scholarly publishing. Here are the dates –all sessions are… read more
The Flora of Forfarshire: A publication of historical and botanical value available in modern collections and public platforms.
During the spring semester 2017, UT Libraries and the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center worked together to digitize the Flora of Forfarshire and make it available to the public through the Texas ScholarWorks repository. The Flora of Forfarshire is an emblematic botanical work by the Scottish botanist, William Gardiner… read more
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
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
ORCID and Cookies in CLA today
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
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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
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
