Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 14 Preserving Open Access and other at-risk scholarly content portico.org/news/preservin… via @Portico_Digital Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 13 Historians to Digitize Endangered Peruvian Archive ucdavis.edu/news/historian… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct 13 Initiative pushes to make journal abstracts free to read in one place nature.com/articles/d4158… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Oct… read more
Reality Czech Curriculum
The Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL), the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), and the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies are excited to announce the publication of Dr. Christian Hilchey’s course in Czech language and culture, Reality Czech. The curriculum in this… read more
TSW Highlight: United States Supreme Court
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest September 16-30, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep 30 Author James Patterson Gives $2.5 Million So Teachers Can Build Better Libraries via @forbes forbes.com/sites/carliepo… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep 28 ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF) Releases List of the Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books of the Past Decade infodocket.com/2020/09/27/ala… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo… read more
UT Joins Texas Library Coalition
UT Austin and the University of Texas System have joined the Texas Library Coalition for United Action (TLCUA). With the addition of UT System, there are now 41 institutions in Texas that are a part of this coalition. One of the goals of the coalition is to expand open access… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest September 1-15, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep 14 ‘I literally weep’: anguish as New Zealand’s National Library culls 600,000 books theguardian.com/world/2020/sep… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep 14 OER/Textbooks: OpenStax to Vastly Expand Open Education Library with Support From National Foundations infodocket.com/2020/09/10/oer… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Sep 11 Censoring Jon Hamm’s Penis Doesn’t Violate Copyright Law, Federal… read more
OERTX is Live!
A new repository for open educational resources (OER) went live last week. OERTX was created by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) and it’s meant to provide access to OER created here in Texas. It uses the same interface as OER Commons so that should make it easy for… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest August 16-31, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Aug 30 TSW hits 70,000 items! sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Aug 28 Publisher hails open-access deals, but cost concerns remain researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Aug 28 “Pods” for the People: Libraries Host Learning Pods to Serve Students in Need | From the Editor slj.com/?detailStory=p… #SchoolLibraryJournal Texas ScholarWorks… read more
TSW hits 70,000 items!
Texas ScholarWorks (TSW) hit a new milestone today – there are now over 70,000 items available. The 70,000th item added was the (2003-2004) Agenda 27: Agenda for UT Austin Student Government Assembly Meeting. That item is part of a collection of Student Government resources like resolutions, bills, and legislative summaries,… read more
