Happy Public Domain Day! With the start of a new year, we have new works entering the public domain. January 1, 2025 marks the date that items published in the year 1929 enter the public domain in the United States. Items in the public domain are free from copyright protections… read more
TSW Highlights: Christmas
December Scholarly Communications Newsletter
Scholarly Communications Newsletter, #9 December 9, 2024 Open Education Fellows for 2025 UT Libraries’ is pleased to announce the 2025 cohort of Open Education Fellows: Dr. Robin Moore, Butler School of Music Dr. Marissa Burgermaster, Dell Medical School Dr. Øyvind Bjøru, College of Liberal Arts This cohort of Open Education… read more
TSW Highlights: Pearl Harbor
Top Downloads from Texas ScholarWorks – November 2024
These were the top ten downloaded items from Texas ScholarWorks (TSW) last month. Creativity as a learned skill : the role of deliberate practice in the development of creativity – 5,879 downloads BoJack Horseman: A Narrative Analysis of Mental Illness and Substance Abuse – 1,334 downloads In xochitl, in cuicatl… read more
TSW Highlights: Thanksgiving
OA Books Toolkit Refresh
The OAPEN Foundation has updated and improved its OA Book Toolkit. The toolkit provides helpful information to authors and policy makers about the publishing environment for open access, academic books. Authors on our campus may be interested in viewing the two main sections created for authors: Publishing open access books… read more
Top Downloads from Texas ScholarWorks – October 2024
These were the top ten downloaded items from Texas ScholarWorks (TSW) last month. Creativity as a learned skill : the role of deliberate practice in the development of creativity – 6,982 downloads First Year Hindi Course Part One – 1,479 downloads 31 – 1,301 downloads Book reports – 879 downloads… read more
Open Access Business Models
As part of our OA Week 2024 celebrations, we hosted a discussion on October 23rd about various open access topics. I’ll be recapping those discussions here on the OA blog. Today, I’ll share what we discussed related to open access business models. There are many types of OA business models.… read more
Preprints
As part of our OA Week 2024 celebrations, we hosted a discussion on October 23rd about various open access topics. I’ll be recapping those discussions here on the OA blog. Today, I’ll share what we discussed related to preprints. For a little context: Preprints are articles that are posted online… read more
