Happy New Year! January 1, 2021 marks the date that items published in the year 1925 enter the public domain in the United States. January 1st of any given year is the date that items typically fall into the public domain. This happens 70 years after the death of the author,… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest December 16-31, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 31 Top 10 APIs for Museums programmableweb.com/news/top-10-ap… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 26 Elsevier and Wiley Declare War on Research Community in India newsclick.in/Elsevier-Wiley… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 22 Billion-Dollar Book Companies Are Ripping Off Public Schools newrepublic.com/article/160649… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 22 Visions of Success: Academic Libraries in a Post COVID-19 World libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=V… Texas… read more
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Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest December 1-15, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 15 Simba Information: Cost of Open Access Book Publishing Goes Under the Microscope heraldmailmedia.com/news/state/sim… via @HeraldMailNews Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 14 Voices : Open access: A problem way beyond one nation one subscription timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/o… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 11 Advance science in Africa through open access journals universityworldnews.com/post.php?story… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Dec 10 Library… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest November 16-30, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 26 Nature Journals To Charge Authors Hefty Fee To Make Scientific Papers Open Access via @IFLScience: iflscience.com/editors-blog/n… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 26 Accessibility: What’s so hard about making things simple? openaccessgovernment.org/making-things-… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 23 Accelerating social sciences reach a fork in the road universityworldnews.com/post.php?story… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 20 Hydrogen Peroxide, Lollipops,… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest November 1-15, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 12 The report linked in this article can be found in TSW: repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/83… The article is here: nytimes.com/live/2020/11/1… twitter.com/keribla/status… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov 10 Can ‘Open Science’ speed up the search for a COVID-19 vaccine? 5 things you need to know news.un.org/en/story/2020/… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Nov… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest October 16-31, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 27 How to Genrefy Your Library: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started- bookriot.com/how-to-genrefy… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 26 Why Open Access Is Necessary for Makers eff.org/deeplinks/2020… via @eff Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 26 Can we do open science on Zoom? alkhaleejtoday.co/technology/519… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 26… read more
Open Memberships
On this final day of OA Week, we want to highlight some of the open memberships that UT Austin participates in. We participate in these programs because we want to help create a more sustainable scholarly publishing system. Some of these memberships provide direct benefits to UT Austin authors, and… read more
Openly Available Geology Content
In our continued celebration of OA Week, we’d like to draw your attention to some wonderful resources made available by our beloved geology librarian, the late Dennis Trombatore. The Virtual Landscapes of Texas was a massive effort to compile a collection of mostly public domain works on the early writings… read more
OER Workshop in November
You are invited to a virtual workshop on Friday, November 13 at 9:30am to learn how affordable course material options, including open educational resources (OER) and other materials that are available at low or no cost to students, can help you improve student success through online teaching and learning. Click… read more