As our OA Week 2014 activities wrap up, we are pleased to announce that the recording of Erin McKiernan’s talk is now available in the UT Digital Repository and in YouTube. UT Digital Repository: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26870 YouTube: http://youtu.be/xakrgOhfqhA
OA Week starts today at UT Austin
Open Access Week 2014 starts today at UT Austin. We’re getting a jump on International Open Access Week with a keynote talk by Dr. Erin McKiernan. Erin is an early career researcher and will be talking about how you can freely share your work and advance your career. Come join… read more
American dissertations from 1933-1955 now online
EBSCO Information Service has recently made the print index, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities (DDAAU), available for free at http://www.OpenDissertations.com. The print index was published by the H.W. Wilson Company, who provided financial support for this project. The database covers dissertations that were completed between 1933-1955 at American universities. More information… read more
Communication Toolkit
Engage your departments in our OA Week events! Flyers to print or attach to emails OA Week 2014 half sheet flyer PDF OA Week 2014 single flyer JPG Flyer for OA and the Early-Career Researcher PDF Sample message to customize Hello [department] faculty and instructors, The UT Libraries are participating… read more
Apply to attend OpenCon 2014
Altmetrics brown bag discussion
Our June brown bag discussion focused on altmetrics. Two tools that are offered that could integrate with our UT Digital Repository are PlumX and Altmetric. Both of these tools provide information on downloads, saves, and social media mentions as part of the larger picture for research impact. They are also… read more
OpenKnowledge MOOC
Stanford University is offering a public, online course this fall called, OpenKnowledge: Changing the global course of learning. Weekly topics include: technological change, digital identity, citizen journalism, citizen science, IP, copyright, open science, open data, open educational resources, evaluating open collections, scholarly publishing, student publishing, information literacy, global perspectives on… read more
Faculty Media Impact Project
The Faculty Media Impact Project is designed to assess “the degree to which faculty share their research with the broader public”. The project is focused around two questions: 1) Should social scientists share their insights with the broader public (who is funding a lot of their work)? and 2) Should… read more
More publisher take-down notices
The American Society of Civil Engineers has hired a firm called Digimarc to police the uploading of publisher PDF versions of their articles on personal or university websites. The take-down notices have gone out to many universities around the world. For more information: General information: http://torrentfreak.com/publishers-targets-university-researchers-pirating-articles-140516/ Information about these take-down… read more
OA Symposium summary-day two
Day two of the UNT OA Symposium was just as great as day one. Here’s my summary of the talking points for the day. Note-I was listening, taking notes, and thinking about how to implement some of this on our campus all at the same time. So, I may have… read more
