Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 14 Study: Only 5% of Conservation Journals Comply With Principles for Fair and Open Access disq.us/t/3qcq49n Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 13 Transformative open-access deals spread to the US disq.us/t/3qa7njj Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 7 Go read about how Americans who depend on libraries for internet are… 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
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
ORCID Single Sign on Live
I’m pleased to report that we now have single sign on activated for ORCID, https://orcid.org/. That means anyone at UT will be able to use their EID and password to login, rather than having to set up a yet another username and password. Instructions are below. Go to ORCID, https://orcid.org/,… read more
Norwegian institutions don’t renew Elsevier contract
A consortium of Norwegian institutions has decided not to renew their Elsevier contract for 2019. They were trying to negotiate an agreement that would move from paying for subscriptions to paying for publishing articles open access (as required by 2024 by the Norwegian government). While there is no agreement for… read more
Retractions Brown Bag Discussion
Our next scholarly communication brown bag discussion will be about retractions. We hope to talk about how retractions get issued, how researchers find out about retracted articles, what happens to people who are involved in a retraction, and what impact this has on the research lifecycle. In advance of that… read more
A new way to evaluate research
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Canada has developed a tool they hope will better measure the quality and impact of research coming out of the global south. They want to ensure that researchers who are working on projects that positively impact their region are evaluated on criteria that make… read more
Editors4BetterResearch initiative
Researchers Chris Chambers, Corin Logan, and Brad Wyble have started an initiative called Editors4BetterResearch. They hope to create a database of journal editors who support reproducibility and open science. Right now they are soliciting feedback on their proposal and collecting names of editors who would like to be listed in… read more
UC takes a stand on journal negotiations
The University of California System has made an announcement that they will be prioritizing an open access future in their journal negotiations with publishers. Their goal is to responsibly transition funding for journal subscriptions towards funding for open access. You can find the full announcement which includes their guiding priorities here.
June brown bag discussion
For our June discussion we’ll be talking about information security, privacy, social media, and algorithmic culture and how all those things are impacting our society. If you’d like to read up on any of this before the June event, here are some helpful resources. Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us… read more
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