UT Austin has joined an international consortium of libraries in supporting the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). OLH is a charitable organization that publishes open access humanities scholarship without charging any article processing charges. The costs of publication are supported by a consortium of over 190 partner libraries. OLH publishes… read more
Open access
Luminos and UT Austin
The University of Texas at Austin is a Futura Level member of Luminos. Luminos is a University of California open access monograph publishing program. It has the same selection, peer review, and production process as their traditional publishing model, but with a different mechanism for distributing the titles they publish.… read more
Clifford Lynch speaking at UT Austin!
UT Austin joins MDPI
UT Austin recently joined MDPI as a member. Our membership in MDPI allows UT Austin authors to get a 10% discount on the article processing charge (APC) for journals. The APCs range in price from roughly $300-1800, and many journals have no APC. MDPI publishes over 150 journals in a wide… read more
UT Austin joins BioMed Central
UT Austin has joined BioMed Central (BMC) as a Supporter Member. This membership gives UT Austin authors two main benefits. 15% discount on article processing charges (APCs) for BioMed Central or SpringerOpen journals. A UT Austin author must be corresponding author to take advantage of the membership discount. In addition to… read more
ACRL issues policy statement on OA
The Association of College and Research Libraries has issued a policy statement about open access to scholarship by academic librarians. The statement encourages academic librarians to publish in open access journals or to archive their final manuscript in an open access repository. This seems a long overdue statement as librarians… read more
OpenCon scholarship
Are you interested in creating better access to research and educational materials? Do you want to help make that a reality on the UT Austin campus? If so, please consider applying for a travel scholarship to attend OpenCon 2016. OpenCon is an academic conference for students and early career researchers… read more
Scholarly publishing site live
OA Panel event cancelled
Evaluating publishers
I was asked to give a talk to the Mechanical Engineering department about ethical vs unethical publishing practices. One of the topics of that conversation was how to evaluate a journal you are unfamiliar with. There is a really great checklist that was developed by Nina Collins at Indiana Tech… read more