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
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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
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest November 16-30, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 30 Mexico’s biggest university inks contract with key open-access publisher – Fronteras Desk – goo.gl/alerts/PBjeY5 Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 29 Springer Nature continues open access drive in Latin America | Research Information – goo.gl/alerts/TwnjSw Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 26 Amateur Investigators Take Down Local Politicians—By Hitting the Library – WSJ wsj.com/articles/taiwa… Texas… read more
OA Highlight – Open Access Community Investment Program
Our second open initiative highlight for Open Access Week is the LYRASIS Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP). The OACIP program exists to provide a framework for collectively funding diamond open access journals (meaning journals that do not collect fees from readers or authors). The program is designed to be… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest October 1-15, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 12 Science’s no-fee public-access policy will take effect in 2023 – Nature – goo.gl/alerts/X4NdAg Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 10 Sticker Shock 2022 sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 10 Apply for the Open Education Fellows program sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 6 The Why, What and Who of Open Access – goo.gl/alerts/QRyihd Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 6… read more
Sticker Shock 2022
International Open Access Week will happen October 24-30, 2022. We’re starting the celebrations early by sharing our updated Sticker Shock poster. Each year we share this resource to help faculty, students, and staff understand the prices associated with journal subscriptions. We’ll be sharing more information about open access over the… read more
