The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is launching the 2023, Year of Open Science. The Year of Open Science will see activity across federal government agencies to advance the national open science policy and provide better access to the results of taxpayer-funded research. This announcement follows… read more
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Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest December 1-15, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 8 Thanks from TSW! sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 7 Why we need open-source science innovation—not patents and paywalls – Phys.org – goo.gl/alerts/oE1zUt Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 5 Libraries: Where Abortion Access and Book Bans Collide – Progressive.org progressive.org/latest/librari… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 1 Library Coalition Agreement with Elsevier Results in Lower Costs, Greater… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest November 16-30, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 30 Mexico’s biggest university inks contract with key open-access publisher – Fronteras Desk – goo.gl/alerts/PBjeY5 Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 29 Springer Nature continues open access drive in Latin America | Research Information – goo.gl/alerts/TwnjSw Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 26 Amateur Investigators Take Down Local Politicians—By Hitting the Library – WSJ wsj.com/articles/taiwa… Texas… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest November 1-15, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 2 Royal Society of Chemistry commits to 100% Open Access – goo.gl/alerts/eSsHs3 Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 2 Open access: The universal norm? – Research Information – goo.gl/alerts/8qnaHs Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 2 TSW Highlights: National Native American Heritage Month sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202…
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest October 16-31, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 31 OA Highlight – University of Michigan Press: Fund to Mission sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 28 OA Highlight – CEU Press: Opening the Future sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 28 OA Highlight – Open Access Community Investment Program sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 26 OA Highlight – South Asia Open Archives sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas… read more
OA Highlight – University of Michigan Press: Fund to Mission
Our last highlight of Open Access Week 2022 is the University of Michigan Press: Fund to Mission. University of Michigan Press publishes about 170 new titles each year. Some areas of focus for the Press include English as a Second Language, classics, Asian studies, political science, and books on Michigan… read more
OA Highlight – CEU Press: Opening the Future
For Thursday of Open Access Week, we’d like to highlight a relatively new OA initiative that we are supporting – CEU Press: Opening the Future. Central European Press specializes in the history of the region, communism, and transitions to democracy. It publishes approximately 25 new monographs per year. Opening the… read more
OA Highlight – Open Access Community Investment Program
Our second open initiative highlight for Open Access Week is the LYRASIS Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP). The OACIP program exists to provide a framework for collectively funding diamond open access journals (meaning journals that do not collect fees from readers or authors). The program is designed to be… read more
OA Highlight – South Asia Open Archives
During OA Week this year we’d like to highlight a few of the open access initiatives that UT Libraries supports. Today we are highlighting our support for the South Asia Open Archives (SAOA). SAOA is a rich, curated collection of open access historical and contemporary resources from and about South… read more
Happy Open Access Week 2022!
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
