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
OA Week 2018: Going to the Source
Open data is defined as “research data that is freely available on the internet; permits any user to download, copy, analyze, re-process, pass to software or use for any other purpose; and is without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself”… read more
OA Week 2018: Emphasis on Access
With a name like open access, it goes without saying that accessing scholarly literature is not just an important piece of OA initiatives, but a primary goal. One popular method of ensuring access to open materials has been through the utilization of institutional repositories. Institutional repositories are “digital collections capturing and preserving… read more
Open Access Week 2018
It’s that time of year again – Open Access Week kicks off today! This year’s theme is Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge. Open knowledge initiatives are inherently disruptive, labor-intensive, and time-consuming. When we design and implement these initiatives, we need to think carefully about who is likely to benefit… read more
Free events for Open Access Week
Open Access Week is Oct. 22-28th. There will be several free online events taking place that week that anyone can participate in. Here are a few: Webinar: Economics and Sustainability of Open Access, hosted by Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Thursday, Oct. 25th at 7:30am Central. Click on the… read more
Open Textbook Pilot applications open
The Department of Education has announced that proposals are now being accepted for an Open Textbooks Pilot program. They will be awarding between one and three grants up to a total of $5 million dollars. The priorities for this pilot include: Improve collaboration and dissemination through consortial arrangements Address gaps in… read more
A new way to evaluate research
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Canada has developed a tool they hope will better measure the quality and impact of research coming out of the global south. They want to ensure that researchers who are working on projects that positively impact their region are evaluated on criteria that make… read more
