Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Feb 26 Massive Google-funded COVID database will track variants and immunity nature.com/articles/d4158… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Feb 26 The Pandemic Has Made An Unlikely Star Out Of A Brooklyn Librarian npr.org/2021/02/24/971… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Feb 24 Studio Ghibli Makes 1,178 Images Free to Download from My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away & Other Beloved Animated… read more
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Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest November 16-30, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 26 Nature Journals To Charge Authors Hefty Fee To Make Scientific Papers Open Access via @IFLScience: iflscience.com/editors-blog/n… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 26 Accessibility: What’s so hard about making things simple? openaccessgovernment.org/making-things-… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 23 Accelerating social sciences reach a fork in the road universityworldnews.com/post.php?story… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 20 Hydrogen Peroxide, Lollipops,… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest July 16-31, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 31 Science, uninterrupted: Will COVID-19 mark the end of scientific publishing as we know it? news.lib.berkeley.edu/covid-oa Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 31 University Research Should Be Free to All insidehighered.com/views/2020/07/… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 30 This sheriff said he wouldn’t respond to calls at the county’s library,… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest May 1-15, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 14 New open-access archaeology database launched for geochemical artefacts heritagedaily.com/2020/05/new-op… via @HeritageDaily – Archaeology News Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 12 We Will Lose Libraries to COVID-19 by Kate Tkacik Sweeney link.medium.com/TU19fEAHq6 Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 12 “Even before librarians closed their doors against the pandemic, they… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest April 16-30, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 29 The Library of Congress wants to help you remix public domain audio clips theverge.com/2020/4/27/2123… via @Verge Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 27 Here’s what you need to know about UNC libraries, Elsevier and open access dailytarheel.com/article/2020/0… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 27 Open Access, Open Source, and… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest April 1-15, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 14 Coronavirus article free access ‘doesn’t go far enough’ timeshighereducation.com/news/coronavir… via @timeshighered Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 13 Your Guide To Free Google Books (And Its Limitations)- bookriot.com/2020/04/13/fre… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 10 Nature to join open-access Plan S, publisher says nature.com/articles/d4158… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 9… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest
Starting this month, we will create a digest every 2 weeks of the tweets we have sent out via Texas ScholarWorks and share it here. We try to find any interesting news pertaining to Open Access, archives, and libraries, in general. Remember, you can also follow us on Twitter here:… read more
UT is a QDR Member
The University of Texas has joined the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) as a member. The “QDR curates, stores, preserves, publishes, and enables the download of digital data generated through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences” (QDR website). Our membership covers most data curation deposit costs for UT Austin… read more
Data Carpentry Workshop in August
Want to learn how to realize the full potential of your research data? Interested in developing new skills with Python, SQL, and Open Refine? Save the date for the August 2019 Data Carpentry workshop co-hosted by the UT Libraries and Texas Advanced Computing Center. The workshop is open to the… read more
Check out the first Texas Data Repository Annual Report
Check out our first Texas Data Repository Annual Report, which reports on UT-Austin’s activities in the consortium over the last two years since its launch. https://hdl.handle.net/2152/74154 Some highlights include: • Many upgrades to Dataverse: currently at version 4.9.4 (thanks TDL!!) • 77 dataverses (collections), 430 datasets, and nearly 7000 files.… read more
