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Top Downloads from Texas ScholarWorks – November 2024
These were the top ten downloaded items from Texas ScholarWorks (TSW) last month. Creativity as a learned skill : the role of deliberate practice in the development of creativity – 5,879 downloads BoJack Horseman: A Narrative Analysis of Mental Illness and Substance Abuse – 1,334 downloads In xochitl, in cuicatl… read more
TSW Highlights: Thanksgiving
OA Books Toolkit Refresh
The OAPEN Foundation has updated and improved its OA Book Toolkit. The toolkit provides helpful information to authors and policy makers about the publishing environment for open access, academic books. Authors on our campus may be interested in viewing the two main sections created for authors: Publishing open access books… read more
Top Downloads from Texas ScholarWorks – October 2024
These were the top ten downloaded items from Texas ScholarWorks (TSW) last month. Creativity as a learned skill : the role of deliberate practice in the development of creativity – 6,982 downloads First Year Hindi Course Part One – 1,479 downloads 31 – 1,301 downloads Book reports – 879 downloads… read more
Open Access Business Models
As part of our OA Week 2024 celebrations, we hosted a discussion on October 23rd about various open access topics. I’ll be recapping those discussions here on the OA blog. Today, I’ll share what we discussed related to open access business models. There are many types of OA business models.… read more
Preprints
As part of our OA Week 2024 celebrations, we hosted a discussion on October 23rd about various open access topics. I’ll be recapping those discussions here on the OA blog. Today, I’ll share what we discussed related to preprints. For a little context: Preprints are articles that are posted online… read more
Theses, dissertations, and embargoes
As part of our OA Week 2024 celebrations, we hosted a discussion on October 23rd about various open access topics. I’ll be recapping those discussions here on the OA blog. First up – embargoing electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) For a little context: at UT Austin, all masters and PhD… read more
OA Initiatives Annual Report
The Open Access (OA) Initiatives Working Group is pleased to share our report on activities for Sept. 1, 2023 through Aug. 31, 2024. Here are a couple highlights from the report: Our OA initiatives saved UT researchers over $675,000 on APCs during the 2023-2024 fiscal year During that same reporting… read more
Happy Open Access Week 2024!
An international celebration of open access is taking place this week. This is the first in a series of posts about open access. UT Libraries also has a free discussion about open access scheduled for noon on Wednesday in PCL Learning Lab 4. Unfortunately, knowledge isn’t free. Much of the… read more
