These were the top ten downloaded items from Texas ScholarWorks (TSW) last month. First Year Hindi Course Part One – 2995 downloads Causes et conséquences de la guerre en République Démocratique du Congo – 1865 downloads 33 – 1318 downloads Vérité de l Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès… read more
New OA support
We have a new open access (OA) initiative that we are supporting, Bloomsbury Open Collections. Bloomsbury is using a collective funding model for OA books, similar to the Subscribe to Open business model for journals. Their goal is to make 20 frontlist titles open access immediately upon publication. Bloomsbury is… read more
Free Webinar About Federal Public Access Policy
The University of California and the Authors Alliance have organized a webinar, “The Right to Deposit – Uniform Guidance to Ensure Author Compliance and Public Access” on April 16th from 1:00-2:30pm (Central time). The webinar “will explore the deposit rights environment authors will face under new, zero-embargo public access policies… read more
Top downloads from Texas ScholarWorks – February 2024
These were the top ten downloaded items from Texas ScholarWorks (TSW) last month. Vérité de l Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social ( UDPS) – 3682 downloads First Year Hindi Course Part One – 2764 downloads Causes et conséquences de la guerre en République Démocratique du Congo –… read more
Student Spotlight: Marco Pevia
Marco Pevia (he/him) Undergraduate Student (Senior) College of Liberal Arts, Spanish and Linguistics Today we’re proud to feature student, Marco Pevia (he/him), as part of Open Education Week. Marco is a first generation college student and is in his fourth year pursuing degrees in Spanish and Linguistics with a… read more
Open Education Fellowship
One of the many ways UT Austin Libraries supports faculty in implementing OER into their coursework is through the Open Education Fellowship. The Open Education Fellowship is a stipend-supported program, in which selected faculty either adopt or create OER to use in place of paid course materials. And the fellows… read more
Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Jocelly Meiners
Dr. Jocelly Meiners Associate Professor of Instruction Department of Spanish and Portuguese Today we’re spotlighting the open education work of UT faculty member, Dr. Jocelly Meiners! Dr. Meiners is Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. A native of San José, Costa Rica, she came to… read more
OER Crash Course
Are you interested in learning more about OER, but don’t know where to start? Check out UTL’s OER Crash Course! This is a self-paced Canvas course, designed to broaden your knowledge about OER, as well as to provide ideas about how you might start implementing these resources into your learning… read more
Happy Open Education Week!
Today marks the start of Open Education Week! Open Educational Resources are openly licensed materials that can be: Retained Reused Revised Remixed Redistributed OER can make a huge difference to our students. In the 2022-2023 academic year alone, students saved over $1.8 million dollars because OER was prioritized over paid… read more
Happy Fair Use Week!
February 26th-March 1st, 2024 marks the 11th annual Fair Use Week. Fair Use Week is designed to celebrate the limitations and exceptions to copyright law that allow the use of copyrighted materials without needing to ask permission of the copyright owner. You can find out more on our fair use… read more
