This month is LGBTQ+ Pride Month so we wanted to showcase material in TSW pertaining to the LGBTQ+ community and the contributions they have made to our society and the discrimination they have faced and still face today.
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest May 16-31, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 28 Over 800 European research institutions and funders urge publishing reform | News | Chemistry World: chemistryworld.com/news/over-800-… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 27 Eric Carle, Creator Of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar,’ Has Died npr.org/2021/05/26/970… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 26 Research lobbies lock horns with science publishers over open access sciencebusiness.net/news/research-… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 25… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest May 1-15, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 14 Open-access publisher PLOS pushes to extend clout beyond biomedicine nature.com/articles/d4158… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 13 This $60 million Brooklyn library renovation is so stunning, you’ll want to move in fastcompany.com/90635348/this-… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 13 PLOS and TCC Africa partnering to support African researchers eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 13 Digital |… read more
UT Senate of College Councils Supports Low-Cost Course Materials Markings in Course Schedule
In April 2021, the Senate of College Councils (SCC) passed S.R. 2103: A Resolution in Support of Requiring That Low-Cost Course Status Be Displayed on the University’s Course Schedule. The resolution explains the necessity and value of this functionality and “seeks to have the registrar denote any low-cost course in… read more
TSW Highlights: Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest April 16-30, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 21 It’s Time for Open Educational Resources insidehighered.com/digital-learni… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 21 Why Open Access Is a Game Changer insidehighered.com/views/2021/04/… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 19 How will the termination of the contract between UVM Libraries and its biggest provider of scientific journals affect you? vtcynic.com/?p=94070 via @VermontCynic
Open Data Town Hall
The SOS Working Group’s Open Data Subcommittee is reaching out to the campus community to engage researchers through a community town hall on Monday, May 3rd at 10:00am. The Open Data Subcommittee will share preliminary findings from the survey that went out earlier this semester, and will welcome questions and… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest April 1-15, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 9 A guide to Plan S: the open-access initiative shaking up science publishing nature.com/articles/d4158… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 8 $1.4M Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant expands Enslaved.org research msutoday.msu.edu/news/2021/ensl… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 8 TSW Highlights: Arab-American Month sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 7 Twitter won’t let National Archives revive @realDonaldTrump politi.co/3wyfSye via @politico… read more
TSW Highlights: Arab-American Month
Free scholarly publishing event
The landscape of scientific publishing has been shifting for a while but the remote research situations forced by COVID-19 brought many inadequacies of the current system into the limelight. Data management challenges, open access availability, wariness of predatory publishers, and an overwhelming abundance of information avenues make publishing research more… read more
