This Wednesday of OA Week, we’d like to highlight a longstanding online resource, the PCL Maps collection. The first maps were scanned and put online in 1994 and now there are about 70,000 maps online out of a total collection of over 250,000 maps. Most of the online maps in… read more
Keyword/Search Term Generator
The second open resource we’d like to highlight this week is the Keyword/Search Term Generator developed at UT Libraries. This tool offers a step by step tutorial to help students break a topic into search terms and brainstorm keywords. The code for this tool is available on GitHub and it’s… read more
Happy OA Week!
October 19-25 is OA Week 2020. For those who are new to open access, you can find a description of what it is and why it’s important here. TLDR: open access works are free to access and licensed in a way that allows for reuse. This year we are celebrating… read more
TSW Highlight: Donald Trump
As the presidential election draws near, we wanted to provide UT’s academic works involving Donald Trump and his influence in politics and social media over the past four years. https://bit.ly/3o414TR
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest October 1-15, 2020
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
Today, we present material produced by UT Austin academics concerning the United States Supreme Court and its national and local impact on society and politics. https://bit.ly/2Sr7AVV
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
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