Knowledge unfortunately isn’t free. Much of the research being conducted at universities, colleges, and institutes around the world is written up by professors, graduate students, and research associates and published in toll-access (subscription) journals. Anyone lacking a subscription to that journal will not be able to access the articles published there. This… read more
ORCID Single Sign on Live
I’m pleased to report that we now have single sign on activated for ORCID, https://orcid.org/. That means anyone at UT will be able to use their EID and password to login, rather than having to set up a yet another username and password. Instructions are below. Go to ORCID, https://orcid.org/,… read more
Open Education Workshop in November
Join us for a discussion on implementing open pedagogical practices in the classroom, enabling student-driven learning opportunities, and using open educational resources in your instruction. We’ll hear from a panel of UT faculty who have adopted open pedagogy in their approach to teaching, get a demo of the open web… read more
Copyright & Digital Culture
Our fall scholarly communication brown bag discussions will kick off with a discussion about copyright and how it intersects with and impacts our online activities. Our speaker for this event is Oren Bracha, the William C. Conner Chair in Law, at the University of Texas School of Law. The inspiration… read more
Research Computing Resources Seminars
In the spring, a team of researchers from the Libraries, the Texas Advanced Computing Center, and Information Technology Services surveyed campus to better understand the research computing environment. As part of that survey, a request for the types of training you wish to see offered on campus was made. The… read more
Feedback for TSW
OER Community of Practice meet-ups start Friday, Sept. 13th!
If you are looking to connect with fellow UT faculty, graduate students, and staff on issues related to open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy, then please join us starting Friday, Sept. 13th for our first community of practice meet-up. The meet-ups are a space to brainstorm, ask questions, consult… read more
OER Community of Practice
If you are using open educational resources (OER) in your courses or have considered using them, please join us this fall for our OER community of practice meet-ups. These meet-ups are being organized by staff from UT Libraries, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning, and Texas Digital… read more
UT is a QDR Member
The University of Texas has joined the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) as a member. The “QDR curates, stores, preserves, publishes, and enables the download of digital data generated through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences” (QDR website). Our membership covers most data curation deposit costs for UT Austin… read more
Registration open for OER Workshop in August
The UT Libraries and COERLL are happy to announce an open educational resources (OER) workshop for instructors at UT. If you are interested in learning more about how you can incorporate OERs into your class, this would be a great place to get started. Title: Incorporating OER in Courses Description:… read more
