UT Austin faculty, students, and staff can now request digital object identifiers (DOIs) and Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) for their research products – articles, datasets, posters, etc. DOIs and ARKs are persistent identifiers that allow you to reliable point other people to your work – improving the research process and… read more
New chart outlines public access policies
Science has just published a short news story about public access policies at federal agencies. They have a really nice chart showing U.S. science agencies, their budgets, their model of dissemination of research articles, estimated # of articles per year, and when the policy starts. For the full news… read more
FASTR reintroduced
The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) bill has been reintroduced with bipartisan support. One difference between FASTR and the White House memo of a couple years ago, is that FASTR requires an electronic copy of a journal article resulting from publicly-funded research to be made available within… read more
OA journal from Penn State announced
Penn State has announced the start of a new OA journal called Digital Literary Studies. Digital Literary Studies will publish “scholarly articles on research concerned with computational approaches to literary analysis/criticism, or critical/literary approaches to electronic literature, digital media, and textual resources”. Their call for submissions for the inaugural issue… read more
Fair Use Week 2015!
We are proud to announce that UT Austin is celebrating Fair Use Week! UT students, faculty, and staff use fair use every day. Professors teach, undergraduates learn, and researchers advance knowledge relying on fair use to use copyrighted information. Fair Use Week is an occasion to promote the opportunities presented… read more
Fair Use and MOOCs
As Fair Use Week begins, Francesca Giannetti and David Hunter considers the use of readily and legally available digital media for MOOCs. Their experience stems from assisting a University of Texas professor with an online jazz appreciation course. In helping University of Texas at Austin professor Jeff Hellmer identify and include… read more
Alcalde interview with Lorraine Haricombe
AHRQ releases public access plan
The Agency for Health Research & Quality (AHRQ) has released their public access plan – a response to the OSTP memo of nearly two years ago. Details of the plan are available here: http://www.ahrq.gov/funding/policies/publicaccess/index.html Very briefly: AHRQ states that authors will be required to submit scholarly papers to PubMed Central. AHRQ-funded… read more
Humanities Open Book grant program
The NEH and the Mellon Foundation are teaming up to offer grants to publishers to turn out-of-print books into freely accessible ebooks. The grant money will be used to secure rights and make the books available online under Creative Commons licenses. Press release: http://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2015-01-15/humanities-open-book
Fair Use Week is coming
In celebration of all things fair use, UT Austin will be participating in Fair Use Week, Feb. 23th-27th. We’ll have a blog post from some UT Austin folks who were involved in creating a jazz appreciation MOOC, and we’ll be promoting the events, videos, and general expertise that are being… read more
