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Open access
New OA Agreement
UT Austin now has an agreement with Cogitatio Press. The agreement allows UT Austin corresponding authors to publish in any Cogitatio journal without paying an article processing charge (APC). Cogitatio publishes five journals: Media and Communication, Ocean and Society (launching in 2024/2025), Politics and Governance, Social Inclusion, and Urban Planning.… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest November 1 – November 16, 2023
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 15 Immersive Python Workshop sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 14 United States Open Access Journal Publishing Report 2023-2027: Millions of Articles and Countin – goo.gl/alerts/HngV8N Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 14 Who should pay for open-access publishing? APC alternatives emerge – Nature – goo.gl/alerts/bpL3ws Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 13 Report: “Librarians Turn to Civil Rights… read more
UT OA Support – by the numbers
During Open Access Week we posted about our guiding principles for supporting open access (OA) initiatives. We recently reviewed our OA initiative support over the past 18 months and here are some numbers related to those activities. 51 – the total number of OA initiatives we support (this includes initiatives… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest October 16 – October 31, 2023
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 27 Open Science sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 26 Texas ScholarWorks Upgrade sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 25 Resources for Support and Development of OER at UT Austin sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 24 Wiley and DEAL Consortium to sign five-year agreement | Research Information – goo.gl/alerts/5puR21 Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 24 Community Over Commercialization: OA… read more
Open Science
An international celebration of open access (OA) is taking place this week. This is the fifth and final post in a series of daily posts about open access. Open science, or open scholarship, is the effort to make the entire research process transparent and accessible to everyone. Open science reflects… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Upgrade
An international celebration of open access (OA) is taking place this week. This is the fourth post in a series of daily posts about open access. The Libraries are excited to announce that we have a major upgrade coming for our institutional repository, Texas ScholarWorks (TSW). The software running TSW… read more
Supporting Open Access Initiatives
An international celebration of open access (OA) is taking place this week. This is the second in a series of daily posts about open access. UT Libraries also has a free, online workshop today about support for OA publishing at UT. Yesterday, our OA Week post was about the basics… read more
Happy Open Access Week 2023
An international celebration of open access is taking place this week. This is the first in a series of daily posts about open access. UT Libraries also has a free, online workshop tomorrow about support for open access publishing at UT. Unfortunately, knowledge isn’t free. Much of the research being… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest October 1 – October 15, 2023
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 13 Sticker Shock 2023 sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… International Open Access Week will happen October 23-29, 2023. We’re starting the celebrations early by sharing our updated Sticker Shock poster! Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 11 Embracing a sustainable open access future: removing barriers to publishing – OUPblog – goo.gl/alerts/7x2Wcf Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 8 Book bans… read more
