Libraries Announces New Open Access Agreement with Scientific Publisher IOP
In coordination with the University of Texas System (UT System), the University of Texas Libraries has established a three-year transformative agreement (TA) with society publisher IOP Publishing (IOPP). The agreement between IOPP and the UT System allows affiliated researchers…
Libraries Announce Access to Open Publishing Platform Pressbooks
The University of Texas Libraries announces access to now offers access to Pressbooks for the creation of open educational resources (OER).
Pressbooks is an open textbook creation platform allowing authors to write and publish open access books. Work can then be exported into…
AILLA Road Trip: Teaching About the Archive in Rural Oaxaca
I am a dual-degree master’s student in Latin American Studies and Information Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, working to become an academic librarian with a subject specialty in Latin American and Indigenous Studies. I had come to Oaxaca with a clear goal in mind: to teach several…
Texas Digital Library Announces Annual Awards
The Texas Digital Library (TDL) announced its annual TDL Awards at the opening plenary session of the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries on Tuesday, May 16.
The Texas Digital Library Awards honor Texas-based individuals and groups that have made outstanding contributions to the…
Rader Among Fulbright Scholar Program Grantees for 2023-2024
AUSTIN, Texas — The U.S. Department of State and Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have selected four members of the staff and faculty at The University of Texas at Austin to receive Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Professors Tia Madkins…
Libraries' Announce 2023 Information Literacy Award Winners
The University of Texas Libraries recently announced the winners of the 2023 Signature Course Information Literacy Award.
The award – administered by the Libraries’ Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) – recognizes exemplary student work that achieves the information literacy…
Los del Valle Oral Histories Available through Collections Portal
The Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin has made a significant oral history archive featuring voices of the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas and Northern Mexico available online through the Libraries’ Collections Portal.
Read more at Tex Libris.
…¡A Viva Voz! to Feature Chicana/Tejana Artist Santa Barraza
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is proud to host the 21st Annual ¡A Viva Voz! Celebration of U.S. Latino/a/x Culture, featuring a conversation with Chicana/Tejana artist Santa Barraza.
A native of Kingsville, Texas, Santa Barraza is a contemporary artist and founder…
Winners of Inaugural Black Queer Studies Awards Named
The University of Texas Libraries recently recognized a group of student scholars for their use of a groundbreaking collection focused on Black Queer Studies.
The Libraries announced the inaugural winners of the Black Queer Studies Student Awards. The Monica K. Roberts Graduate and the…
Libraries Announce New Open Access Initiatives
The University of Texas at Austin supports a variety of open access (OA) memberships, initiatives and infrastructure with the goal of creating a more sustainable publishing ecosystem for community stakeholders. That support sometimes provides direct benefits to our authors like…
Libraries Offer Resources for New Data/Sharing Requirements
A new directive from the National Institutes for Health (NIH) strengthens data management and sharing for the results of research funded by the organization.
All researchers, regardless of funding level, seeking grants from the NIH will now be required to follow the new guidelines laid…
Libraries 2023 Open Education Fellows Announced
The University of Texas Libraries announces faculty selected for the 2023 Open Education Fellows Program.
This year’s fellows are Dr. Amanda Bush and Dr. Silvia Luongo (French & Italian), Dr. Nico Osier (Nursing) and Dr. Franco Pestilli (Psychology). Their work over the next year…
Diversity Resident Explores the Chase Archive
The Black Diaspora Archive (BDA) at The University of Texas at Austin documents the Black experience in the Americas and the Caribbean through the voices and stories of those who have championed the Black spaces that we use and benefit from today. Diaspora is defined as the “dispersion…
Libraries Begins Construction of Digital Scholars Lab
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin will soon have a new space for scholarly collaboration and innovation on the Forty Acres.
Construction is underway in the creation of a new Scholars Lab on the entry level of the Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL) that aligns with a growing…
2022 UTL MGCE Fellow Announced
The University of Texas Libraries announced the student recipient of the 2022 Map & Geospatial Collections Explorer Fellowship at a GIS Day event on Wednesday, November 16.
The Fellowship was created as an annual award to encourage scholarly and creative use of maps and geospatial…
