In celebration of Open Education Week 2025, the Senate of College Councils and UT Libraries partnered to solicit nominations from students across campus to recognize instructors who increased access and equity by selecting free or low cost course materials for their classes. We’ll be recognizing a few of those nominees… read more
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Public Domain for 2025
Happy Public Domain Day! With the start of a new year, we have new works entering the public domain. January 1, 2025 marks the date that items published in the year 1929 enter the public domain in the United States. Items in the public domain are free from copyright protections… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Digest January 1 – January 31, 2024
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 29 Navigating the maze of scientific publishing – The Sunday Guardian Live – goo.gl/alerts/yWz6uU Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 20 Academic Publishing: ResearchGate Expands Sage Journals – goo.gl/alerts/AA5FWe Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 13 AI Breakthrough Creates Images From Nothing; Open Access Publishing and the Power of … – goo.gl/alerts/ZTdZ6R Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 12 Wiley… read more
Public Domain for 2024
Happy New Year! With the start of a new year, we have new works entering the public domain. January 1, 2024 marks the date that items published in the year 1928 enter the public domain in the United States. Items in the public domain are free from copyright protections and can be… read more
Who Owns History?
Filmmaker Richard Misek has created a short film composed of videos that are already part of the public domain. These videos lack copyright protection, but because there are few high quality copies, the companies that physically own those copies can charge high prices for access. One of Misek’s goals in… read more
Public Domain for 2023
Happy New Year! January 1, 2023 marks the date that items published in the year 1927 enter the public domain in the United States. Items in the public domain are free from copyright protections and can be legally shared without needing to ask permission or pay fees. January 1st of… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest January 1-15, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 7 Inside a hollow library book, a secret library – Capital Daily: capitaldaily.ca/news/secret-zi… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 7 Tools are costly and take up space. Tool libraries are popping up so people can share. wvnews.com/tools-are-cost… via @WVNews247 Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 7 Glass-walled library envisioned as a tree-filled forest newatlas.com/architecture/s… Texas… read more
Public Domain for 2022
Happy New Year! January 1, 2022 marks the date that items published in the year 1926 enter the public domain in the United States. January 1st of any given year is the date that items typically enter into the public domain. This happens 70 years after the death of the… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest January 1-15, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 15 Archivists Are Mining Parler Metadata to Pinpoint Crimes at the Capitol vice.com/en/article/qjp… via @vice Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 15 Turning the Page: Emory’s leadership in digital publishing and open access expands the scope and reach of new humanities scholarship links.emory.edu/68 via @EmoryUniversity Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 15 A Big Science Publisher… read more
Public Domain for 2021
Happy New Year! January 1, 2021 marks the date that items published in the year 1925 enter the public domain in the United States. January 1st of any given year is the date that items typically fall into the public domain. This happens 70 years after the death of the author,… read more
