Please join us today, Wednesday, July 19th, 12:00-1:00pm in PCL Learning Lab 4 to learn about digital badging. We’ll have several knowledgeable presenters give a very short presentation and we’ll save the second half of the hour for discussion. Here’s our speaker line-up: Victor Baeza, Oklahoma State (via Skype) Cinthya… read more
A Fantastic Milestone for Texas ScholarWorks!
TSW has now surpassed over 50,000 items! From theses and dissertations to newsletters to articles to student journals, we provide a wide-ranging collection of what is being produced by the UT Austin Community. We have been accessed millions of times by people in almost every country in the world! Thank… read more
OpenScore
There is an interesting project going on that aims to digitize public domain sheet music to make it more accessible to music fans everywhere. It’s called OpenScore and they are going to be enabling crowdsourced transcriptions to create the digital sheet music. All crowdsourced scores will be checked and reviewed… read more
Travel scholarship available
The University of Texas Libraries wants to send you to OpenCon 2017 in Berlin, Germany! If you are a graduate student or postdoctoral researcher with an interest in open access (OA), open educational resources (OER) or open data who wants to help shape the future of research and education at… read more
Portland Press APC discounts
As a subscriber to Portland Press journals, UT Austin affiliated authors get a discount on the article processing charge (APC) for hybrid open access and full open access journals. The discounts range from 15% to 30% off the APC depending on the journal. Please see the Portland Press website for… read more
Open Science Summer School
If you are interested in being more open in your research practices, but don’t quite know where to start, check out this one week Open Science course being offered at Utrecht University: Open Science and Scholarship: Changing Your Research Workflow. The course is open to researchers from all disciplines and… read more
Donut Day!
UT Graduate Students, The semester is almost over! Come enjoy a sweet treat and a little caffeine to celebrate your hard work. We will have donuts, coffee, and prizes in the kitchen of the Graduate Landing Spot in PCL on Tuesday, May 9th from 9:00-11:00am. Thanks from all of us… read more
Short ORCID Update
Some folks may recall the open letter in late 2015/early 2016 calling on publishers to require corresponding authors to use ORCID. That letter now has 27 publisher signatories representing 1500 journals. All the publishers who are requiring ORCID are passing that information along to Crossref, which then asks the author’s permission… read more
Short OER video from COERLL
Professional development opportunity and stipend from COERLL
The Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL) is offering a $500 stipend and professional guidance to graduate student language teachers who are interesting in learning how to create open language learning materials. Students can apply by filling out a project proposal form and submitting it to info@coerll.utexas.edu… read more
