An international celebration of open access (OA) is taking place this week. This is the fourth post in a series of daily posts about open access. The Libraries are excited to announce that we have a major upgrade coming for our institutional repository, Texas ScholarWorks (TSW). The software running TSW… read more
Repositories
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest January 16 – January 31, 2023
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 31 New publishing initiative provides open access to Canadian research – EurekAlert – goo.gl/alerts/PM6p1X Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 30 Plan S confirms end of support for transformative arrangements – goo.gl/alerts/S7YDpA Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 30 Smithsonian’s Open Access now has over 4 million free-to-use images – goo.gl/alerts/Suk1Qj Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 30 MSU Libraries… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest September 1-15, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep 15 We Asked the Community: Is Research Integrity Possible without Peer Review? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/09/14/we-… via @scholarlykitchn Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep 7 Open access to research can close gaps for people with disabilities statnews.com/2022/09/06/ope… via @statnews Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep 5 Without appropriate metadata, data-sharing mandates are pointless – Nature – goo.gl/alerts/mk4yhn Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep… read more
Texas ScholarWorks celebrates 100,000 items!
We are excited to announce that Texas ScholarWorks (TSW) has crossed the 100,000 item threshold! The 100,000th item to be added was the minutes from a meeting of Student Government on May 3rd, 1988. This item is part of a larger collection of over 3,000 documents related to UT Student… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest October 16-31, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 31 Open Access Repositories sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 28 New Open Access Journal sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 27 Texas House committee to investigate school districts’ books on race and sexuality texastribune.org/2021/10/26/tex… via @TexasTribune Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 27 Open Initiative Support at UT Libraries sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… #OAWeek2021 Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 26 A Photo Of… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest July 16-31, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 30 Open Access Publishing Fund to Help Students, Faculty, Staff Get Published news.uark.edu/articles/57271… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 26 TSW Spotlight: Disability Pride Day sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 22 Notre Dame launches platform for online access to library, museum holdings news.nd.edu/news/notre-dam… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jul 20 Are repositories the key to institutional resilience? |… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest February 1-28, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Feb 26 Massive Google-funded COVID database will track variants and immunity nature.com/articles/d4158… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Feb 26 The Pandemic Has Made An Unlikely Star Out Of A Brooklyn Librarian npr.org/2021/02/24/971… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Feb 24 Studio Ghibli Makes 1,178 Images Free to Download from My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away & Other Beloved Animated… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest January 1-15, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 15 Archivists Are Mining Parler Metadata to Pinpoint Crimes at the Capitol vice.com/en/article/qjp… via @vice Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 15 Turning the Page: Emory’s leadership in digital publishing and open access expands the scope and reach of new humanities scholarship links.emory.edu/68 via @EmoryUniversity Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 15 A Big Science Publisher… read more
TSW Highlight: The Voting Rights Act
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