Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo 23h Creative Commons Interview with Dr. Lucie Guibault: What Scientists Should Know About Open Access infojustice.org/archives/42216 Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 30 Watch Zoe Saldaña & Eva Longoria Read Kids Books in Spanish as Part of the Save With Stories Campaign remezcla.com/film/eva-longo… via @remezcla Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 30 A Revolution in Science Publishing,… read more
OA During the Pandemic
As we consider, and are thankful for, the steps publishers are taking to open up resources about COVID-19, it’s worth considering why this level of access isn’t always considered necessary. Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei has a very thought-provoking blog post that addresses this issue. I encourage you to check… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest March 01-15, 2020
Mar 9 VCU Libraries will close Open Access Fund for faculty authors July 1 library.vcu.edu/about/news/202… Mar 9 Elsevier signs contract with California State University: News from the CSU Libraries Network: libraries.calstate.edu/csu-elsevier-r… Mar 5 Open Access at UT Blog: Open Education Week 2020 sites.utexas.edu/openaccess/202… Mar 4 The Michael J. Fox Foundation… read more
Open Education Week 2020
It’s Open Education Week and we are trying to spread the work about the benefits of using open educational resources (OER). We were in the PCL lobby today telling students about OER and encouraging them to share how much they spent on course materials this semester and share a story… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest
Starting this month, we will create a digest every 2 weeks of the tweets we have sent out via Texas ScholarWorks and share it here. We try to find any interesting news pertaining to Open Access, archives, and libraries, in general. Remember, you can also follow us on Twitter here:… read more
Wiki Education
If you are interested in having your students contribute to Wikipedia as part of the activities for your class, you may want to consider working with Wiki Education. Instructors who sign up will have access to support materials to help guide their assignment. If you would like to try running… read more
Space Limitations in UT’s Fluid-preserved Fish Collection
Today we have a guest post about cataloging and access to natural history collections from Adam Cohen, Dean Hendrickson, and Melissa Casarez of the University of Texas’ Biodiversity Center. Specimens are, in many ways, like books written in languages we are still learning. New technologies like DNA analyses, high-resolution CT… read more
Public Domain for 2020
From the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8: “The Congress shall have Power…to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” [emphasis mine] January 1, 2020 marks the date that items published… read more
Pressbooks webinar on Nov. 21st
If you are a faculty member at a Texas Digital Library-affiliated institution, you are invited to attend a webinar on Pressbooks, an OER textbook platform. The webinar will be geared towards showing faculty how to use Pressbooks to create OER course materials. Sign up for the free webinar Date: Thursday,… read more
Images of Research Competition Open
The 3rd annual Images of Research competition is now open. In a nutshell, UT undergrads engaged in any kind of research, whether it is in a lab, library/archive or the field, can submit images via Instagram. In order to be eligible to win, students need to be enrolled in Spring… read more
