With the invigorated protests concerning civil rights and this being a presidential election year, this academic research about the Voting Rights Act and its place in today’s political climate is now more important than ever. Read what those from UT Austin have to say here: https://bit.ly/3l9Oq4l
UT Libraries add another way to discover Texas ScholarWorks resources
The new search and discovery interface that UT Libraries introduced earlier this year has become even more comprehensive: Electronic resources stored in Texas ScholarWorks, UT’s institutional repository managed by UT Libraries, can now be discovered through https://search.lib.utexas.edu. Texas ScholarWorks provides open, online access to the products of the University’s research… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest April 16-30, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 29 The Library of Congress wants to help you remix public domain audio clips theverge.com/2020/4/27/2123… via @Verge Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 27 Here’s what you need to know about UNC libraries, Elsevier and open access dailytarheel.com/article/2020/0… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 27 Open Access, Open Source, and… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest April 1-15, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 14 Coronavirus article free access ‘doesn’t go far enough’ timeshighereducation.com/news/coronavir… via @timeshighered Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 13 Your Guide To Free Google Books (And Its Limitations)- bookriot.com/2020/04/13/fre… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 10 Nature to join open-access Plan S, publisher says nature.com/articles/d4158… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 9… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest March 16-31, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo 23h Creative Commons Interview with Dr. Lucie Guibault: What Scientists Should Know About Open Access infojustice.org/archives/42216 Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 30 Watch Zoe Saldaña & Eva Longoria Read Kids Books in Spanish as Part of the Save With Stories Campaign remezcla.com/film/eva-longo… via @remezcla Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 30 A Revolution in Science Publishing,… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest
Starting this month, we will create a digest every 2 weeks of the tweets we have sent out via Texas ScholarWorks and share it here. We try to find any interesting news pertaining to Open Access, archives, and libraries, in general. Remember, you can also follow us on Twitter here:… read more
Feedback for TSW
We now have a feedback form for people to let us know what they think about Texas ScholarWorks. If you’ve used Texas ScholarWorks before and would like to share your feedback with us, please use the form.
Check out the first Texas Data Repository Annual Report
Check out our first Texas Data Repository Annual Report, which reports on UT-Austin’s activities in the consortium over the last two years since its launch. https://hdl.handle.net/2152/74154 Some highlights include: • Many upgrades to Dataverse: currently at version 4.9.4 (thanks TDL!!) • 77 dataverses (collections), 430 datasets, and nearly 7000 files.… read more
OA Week 2018: Emphasis on Access
With a name like open access, it goes without saying that accessing scholarly literature is not just an important piece of OA initiatives, but a primary goal. One popular method of ensuring access to open materials has been through the utilization of institutional repositories. Institutional repositories are “digital collections capturing and preserving… read more
Digital scholarship office hours spring semester
We are offering digital scholarship office hours again this semester. Gilbert Borrego, Allyssa Guzman, Jessica Trelogan and Colleen Lyon will be available to answer any questions you may have about digital scholarship, Texas Data Repository, Texas ScholarWorks, research data services, or scholarly publishing. Here are the dates –all sessions are… read more
