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
Petition against new machine learning journal
A large group of scholars has signed a petition protesting the creation of a new subscription journal from Nature, Nature Machine Intelligence. https://openaccess.engineering.oregonstate.edu/home They argue that most journals in the field are open access with no charges for readers or authors. The people signing the petition have said they will… read more
Florida State cancels big deal
Florida State University has announced it’s canceling it’s “big deal” journals package with Elsevier. The dean of university libraries, Julia Zimmerman, released a statement about the cancellation. Instead of the big deal, FSU will subscribe to a sub-set of journals that are most-needed. The Faculty Senate voted unanimously to approve… read more
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