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
Open access
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
Flipping subscription journals to OA
Scholarly communication learning opportunities
Winter/spring semester 2016 is full of learning opportunities on a variety of scholarly communication topics. Friday, February 12th, 12:30-1:30: Deceptive -vs- ethical publishing practices. PCL 1.124 Wednesday, February 17th, 1:00-2:00: Copyright and academic work. Learning Lab 2 (PCL 2.340). Wednesday, March 2nd, 12:00-1:00: Statistics in Texas ScholarWorks. PCL 1.124 UT… read more
Scholarly communication brown bag discussions
The Scholarly Communication Group at UT Libraries organizes periodic brown bag discussions on a variety of schol comm topics. These brown bag sessions are open to anyone, although the primary audience is UT Libraries staff. They provide an opportunity to talk through either current or emerging issues for the Libraries and… read more
Institutional repositories and academic social networking sites
The University of California Office of Scholarly Communication has a really great blog post about the difference between open access institutional and subject repositories and academic social networking sites like Academia.edu and ResearchGate. Here’s the post: http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/12/a-social-networking-site-is-not-an-open-access-repository/ I particularly like the table they created to demonstrate the differences:
