A new repository for open educational resources (OER) went live last week. OERTX was created by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) and it’s meant to provide access to OER created here in Texas. It uses the same interface as OER Commons so that should make it easy for… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest June 16-30, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jun 30 An Invisible Threat: Compassion Fatigue in Libraries-bookriot.com/compassion-fat… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jun 26 The Endangered Internet Archive Is Full of Treasures gizmodo.com/the-endangered… via @gizmodo Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jun 25 People are microwaving library books and masks to kill COVID-19 — and that’s bad freep.com/story/news/loc… via @freep… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest June 1-15, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jun 10 New Collections Highlighted in Updated Latin American Digital Initiatives Repository From University of Texas Libraries, More Than 60 Thousand Scanned Images Available infodocket.com/2020/06/09/new… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jun 10 Temporary National Emergency Library to close 2 weeks early, returning to traditional controlled digital lending blog.archive.org/2020/06/10/tem… via… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest May 16-31, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 27 Hemingway’s Reading Habits Revealed After Parisian Library’s Records Digitized insidehook.com/daily_brief/bo… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 26 Rising Voices Library Highlights Stories Of Black And Latino Boys wbur.fm/2X003k3 via @hereandnow Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 26 Open Access Stakeholders Make Their Case to White House aip.org/fyi/2020/open-… Texas ScholarWorks… 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 March 16-31, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo 23h Creative Commons Interview with Dr. Lucie Guibault: What Scientists Should Know About Open Access infojustice.org/archives/42216 Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 30 Watch Zoe Saldaña & Eva Longoria Read Kids Books in Spanish as Part of the Save With Stories Campaign remezcla.com/film/eva-longo… via @remezcla Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 30 A Revolution in Science Publishing,… read more
Open Education Week 2020
It’s Open Education Week and we are trying to spread the work about the benefits of using open educational resources (OER). We were in the PCL lobby today telling students about OER and encouraging them to share how much they spent on course materials this semester and share a story… 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
Wiki Education
If you are interested in having your students contribute to Wikipedia as part of the activities for your class, you may want to consider working with Wiki Education. Instructors who sign up will have access to support materials to help guide their assignment. If you would like to try running… read more
Pressbooks webinar on Nov. 21st
If you are a faculty member at a Texas Digital Library-affiliated institution, you are invited to attend a webinar on Pressbooks, an OER textbook platform. The webinar will be geared towards showing faculty how to use Pressbooks to create OER course materials. Sign up for the free webinar Date: Thursday,… read more
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