Join the University of Texas Libraries in transforming classrooms across the Forty Acres from using expensive textbooks to using no-cost, free-use course materials through Open Educational Resources (OERs)! You can make a difference now during our 40 Hours for the Forty Acres campaign until April 7 at 10pm. Textbooks cost… read more
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Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest March 1-15, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 10 Meet the Texas librarian fighting book bans in schools chron.com/politics/artic… via @chron Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 7 Statement on Ukraine arl.org/news/statement… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 3 My Super Hero Is Black- Celebrates The History Of Marvel’s Black Heroes And Creators – blackenterprise.com/my-super-hero-… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 3 Open Access Through Clarity and Transparency:… read more
Senate of College Councils advocates for OER & affordable course materials in the College Tuition Budget Advisory Report
Recently, the Senate of College Councils released the College Tuition Budget Advisory Report (CTBAC). This report summarizes results from the biennial CTBAC survey deployed to all UT Austin students in Fall 2021 to collect feedback from the student body on the University’s tuition and budget process. For the first time,… read more
Nominate UT Instructors as Affordable Education Champions
Have you had an instructor who increased access and equity by selecting free or low cost course materials for class? Nominate them as an Affordable Education Champion to let them know how much their choices meant to you! Affordable Education Champions are instructors who assign free or low cost resources… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest January 16-31, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 31 Make science inclusive – The Hindu – goo.gl/alerts/QewUy Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 27 Tennessee School Board Bans Holocaust Memoir Maus consequence.net/2022/01/tennes… via @consequence Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 26 Managing metadata, managing hybridity via HangingTogether hangingtogether.org/managing-metad… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 26 Continued Harassment of Library Workers in Illinois- bookriot.com/continued-hara… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 26 Mississippi city… 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
Infrastructure & Support for OER Adoption & Development at UT Austin
This blog post is part of our Open Access Week series. The theme of Open Access 2021 is “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.” Open educational resources (OER) are a critical feature of the open access content landscape. Per the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC),… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest September 1-15, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep 14 TSW Highlights: Deaf Awareness Month sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… @NationalDeafCtr Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep 13 Open Science for global challenges & restoring the ethos of science openaccessgovernment.org/open-science-f… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep 8 UK Research and Innovation will mandate that all published papers containing work carried out using UKRI cash must be free to read… read more
OER 101 Workshop Coming Up
Workshop: OER 101: Supporting Learning with Flexible & Affordable Course Materials Date: Friday, 9/17 Time: 9:30am – 11:00am In this workshop, we will introduce participants to open educational resources (OER). Instructors can leverage the open licenses assigned to OER to offer their students free, immediate access to course materials as well as… read more
