UT Libraries is pleased to announce support for a new open access (OA) initiative, Peer Community In. Peer Community In (PCI) is a scientist-led initiative to provide a reviewing and recommending service for pre-print articles; similar to the peer review process for journal articles. Those recommended pre-prints can then be… read more
Publishing
Webinar about supporting open monographs
If you would like to learn more about business models for supporting open access book publishing, you may be interested in an upcoming webinar hosted by CEU Press. The free webinar is scheduled for February 27th from 11am-12pm Central time. From their invitation: “You are invited to join the Central… 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
New OA Agreement
UT Austin now has an agreement with Cogitatio Press. The agreement allows UT Austin corresponding authors to publish in any Cogitatio journal without paying an article processing charge (APC). Cogitatio publishes five journals: Media and Communication, Ocean and Society (launching in 2024/2025), Politics and Governance, Social Inclusion, and Urban Planning.… read more
UT OA Support – by the numbers
During Open Access Week we posted about our guiding principles for supporting open access (OA) initiatives. We recently reviewed our OA initiative support over the past 18 months and here are some numbers related to those activities. 51 – the total number of OA initiatives we support (this includes initiatives… read more
Supporting Open Access Initiatives
An international celebration of open access (OA) is taking place this week. This is the second in a series of daily posts about open access. UT Libraries also has a free, online workshop today about support for OA publishing at UT. Yesterday, our OA Week post was about the basics… read more
Event Announcement – Support for Open Access Publishing at UT
Open Access Week 2023 event announcement In this session we’ll talk about UT Libraries support for open access (OA) publishing, including support that eliminates article processing charges (APCs) for UT authors. We’ll discuss the main types of OA publishing business models (including OA book publishing), and how the Libraries is… read more
New OA Initiative – IOP Publishing
UT Austin now has an agreement with IOP (Institute of Physics) Publishing that will allow UT corresponding authors to publish open access (OA) in a majority of IOP journals without paying an article processing charge (APC). The UT community can also view and download articles from IOP’s full portfolio. If… read more
New OA Initiatives
UT Austin participates in several open access (OA) initiatives that aim to create a more equitable and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem. Today we’d like to highlight four of our newer initiatives. Association of Computing Machinery (ACM): ACM publishes journals, conference proceedings, and magazines. UT Austin is participating in their program… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest December 16, 2022 – January 15, 2023
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 15 The open access movement, to make academic papers accessible for all – The Hindu – goo.gl/alerts/jAF7W5 Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 15 How was the transition to open access advanced in 2022? | Research Information – goo.gl/alerts/cLw6NK Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 23 2022 PLOS accomplishments – The Official PLOS Blog theplosblog.plos.org/2022/12/2022-p… Texas… read more