I am excited to announce that the Sustainable Open Scholarship (SOS) Working Group report is now officially public on the Provost’s website. The SOS Working Group met through the 2020/2021 academic year and submitted their report in late fall 2021. The group’s efforts focused on four main areas: open access,… read more
Open data
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest March 16-31, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo 21h A Mexican American superhero travels to Ukraine’s aid in new comic book nbcnews.com/news/latino/me… via @nbcnews Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 31 Cambridge University Press OA for UT Authors sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 30 PLOS launches new feature to promote data sharing and access – goo.gl/alerts/8idVo Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 21 World academies call for… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest December 1-15, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 12 School librarians speak out against recent upsurge in attempts to ban books pbs.org/newshour/show/… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 8 AIP Publishing to Launch Two Fully Open Access Journals in 2022 – PR Newswire – goo.gl/alerts/Qnwwt Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 7 Study finds COVID-19 research freely accessible, but research data sharing and preprinting… read more
Open Research Toolkit
Christopher Eaker from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has created a resource called the Open Research Toolkit (ORT). It’s designed with librarians in mind and aims to teach open research concepts and skills. The ORT is published on the Open Science Framework (OSF) and is licensed with CC-BY license. The… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest July 1-15, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 15 Google Dataset Search: Using open access tools during the research process news.illinoisstate.edu/2021/07/google… via @IllinoisStateU Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 12 The “Sci-Hub effect” can almost double the citations of research articles, study suggests via @psypost psypost.org/2021/07/the-sc… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 9 Research ‘should benefit society, not shareholders’ | Research Information researchinformation.info/analysis-opini… via… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest June 16-30, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jun 29 CUP launches ‘revolutionary’ Open Access monograph pilot thebookseller.com/news/cup-launc… via @thebookseller Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jun 29 A Maryland attic hid a priceless trove of Black history. Historians and activists saved it from auction. washingtonpost.com/history/2021/0… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jun 28 Author Rights & the SPARC Author Addendum sparcopen.org/our-work/autho… via @sparc_na Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jun 22… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest May 1-15, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 14 Open-access publisher PLOS pushes to extend clout beyond biomedicine nature.com/articles/d4158… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 13 This $60 million Brooklyn library renovation is so stunning, you’ll want to move in fastcompany.com/90635348/this-… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 13 PLOS and TCC Africa partnering to support African researchers eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 13 Digital |… read more
Open Data Town Hall
The SOS Working Group’s Open Data Subcommittee is reaching out to the campus community to engage researchers through a community town hall on Monday, May 3rd at 10:00am. The Open Data Subcommittee will share preliminary findings from the survey that went out earlier this semester, and will welcome questions and… read more
Free scholarly publishing event
The landscape of scientific publishing has been shifting for a while but the remote research situations forced by COVID-19 brought many inadequacies of the current system into the limelight. Data management challenges, open access availability, wariness of predatory publishers, and an overwhelming abundance of information avenues make publishing research more… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest March 1-15, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 12 Congress Allocates Billions of Dollars to Libraries in COVID Relief Package- bookriot.com/covid-relief-f… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 12 Report on Diamond Open Access Journals sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 12 Restricted Access To COVID-19 Variants Database Draws Criticism From Scientists science.thewire.in/the-sciences/r… via @TheWireScience Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 12 The Evolution of Water Resources Research… read more
