The Catalogue consists of accounts of taxa prepared by specialists, including synonymy, description, diagnosis, phylogenetic relationships, published descriptions, illustrations, distribution map, and comprehensive list of literature for each taxon. Over 900 accounts have been published since the initiation of the series in 1963. The series covers amphibians and reptiles of… read more
Next brown bag discussion is about misinformation and fake news
Please join us for our next brown bag discussion on Friday, Feb. 17th, at 12:00pm in PCL Learning Lab 2. We’ll be discussing misinformation, fake news, and the abundance of information available online. We’ll supply some donuts to help fuel the discussion. Please read this article in advance of our… read more
Open science software
Top 5 Things We Tweeted This Year!
These are our top 5 tweets for 2016! Thanks for all the Twitter love, everybody! Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo The @utlibraries scholarly publishing site is now live! Learn about #openaccess, #opendata, #copyright and more! http://goo.gl/EM493D Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo ACRL Releases Updated Scholarly Communication Toolkit http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/12559#.V_K4uLRy3x4.twitter … Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo More #openaccess… read more
UT Austin sets up PeerJ account
UT Austin has joined as institutional plan members of PeerJ. PeerJ publishes open access articles in the biological, medical, and computer sciences. They also host a preprint repository where authors can share a draft of an article for free. PeerJ and PeerJ Computer Science offer fast publishing turnaround (median of… read more
Top OA author
In celebration of Open Access Week 2016, we’d like to highlight our top OA author, Dr. Chandra Bhat. Dr. Bhat, a Professor in the Dept. of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Center for Transportation Research, has more articles in our online archive, Texas ScholarWorks (TSW), than anyone… read more
UT Libraries institute OA policy
AUSTIN, Texas—The University of Texas Libraries has taken the first step to institute an open access policy for staff at The University of Texas at Austin. A modest plan to induce Libraries staff to deposit articles and conference papers into Texas ScholarWorks, the university’s digital repository, was recently approved by… read more
Open Access Week 2016
Knowledge unfortunately isn’t free. Much of the research being conducted at universities, colleges, and institutes around the world is written up by professors, graduate students, and research associates and published in toll-access (subscription) journals. Anyone lacking a subscription to that journal will not be able to access the articles published there. This… read more
Year of Open events
The Year of Open is a joint effort by the University of Texas Libraries and Texas Learning Sciences to raise the profile of open content on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin, in the city of Austin, and in the surrounding area. During the 2015-2016 academic year… read more
Thank you to Clifford Lynch!
As part of our “Year of Open,” UT Libraries hosted CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch for a public presentation. Titled “Evolving Scholarly Practice and the New Challenges for Scholarly Communications, ” Dr. Lynch discussed multiple topics pertaining to digital scholarship, including data management, digital curation, research replication, and data packaging.… read more
