This week is Open Education Week! To celebrate, we’re having an Open Textbook Fair in the PCL Lobby. It’s today (March 6th) from 2:00pm-4:00pm. We’ll have a trivia game, a whiteboard to share your textbook thoughts, and some print open educational textbooks for people to check out. There will also… read more
UC terminates Elsevier subscriptions
The University of California system is the most recent institution to back away from their Elsevier subscriptions after negotiations failed. UC had been trying to negotiate a deal that would include subscription access to Elsevier journals for their faculty, staff, and students, but that would also include making all UC… read more
Fair Use Workshop Feb. 27th
Fair Use Week takes place from February 25-March 1. It’s an opportunity to celebrate one of the most important, and yet frequently misunderstood, parts of U.S. copyright law. UT Libraries will be celebrating with a workshop about fair use on Wednesday, Feb. 27th from 12:00-1:00pm in PCL Learning Lab 2.… read more
Cleveland Museum of Art
More Public Domain Fun
Last month I talked about all the new content entering the public domain for the first time in twenty years. This month, I want to share some additional resources to consult when trying to find newly public domain materials. Internet Archive – movies collection Center for the Study of the Public… read more
Public Domain Day 2019
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, 2019 will mark the first time in… read more
OER Workshop in January
Notes from the OER Workshop are available here. Registration Open for OER Workshop on January 10, 2019 Are you interested in learning more about Open Educational Resources (OER), how to find and adapt them, how to create them, how the copyright works, how to incorporate openness into your teaching, and… read more
Retractions Brown Bag Discussion
Our next scholarly communication brown bag discussion will be about retractions. We hope to talk about how retractions get issued, how researchers find out about retracted articles, what happens to people who are involved in a retraction, and what impact this has on the research lifecycle. In advance of that… read more
OA Week 2018: Bringing It All Together
Open educational resources (OER) – instructional resources made from open materials – are a logical endpoint when discussing open access initiatives. At UT Libraries, we’re committed to promoting the adoption and creation of OER across campus. Our OER Working Group’s efforts were recently discussed on Tex Libris, and they have included revamping the OER LibGuide and… read more
OA Week 2018: Engaging Early and Often
A key component of scholarly communication is, in fact, communication. What’s the point of making information available if engagement doesn’t follow? One way of facilitating increased engagement with scholarly literature is through the hosting of preprint articles on institutional repositories and preprint servers. Preprints are typically defined as scholarly articles… read more
