Stocking Stuffers from Your Library

Don’t forget your favorite stocking stuffers from the Library:

  • Access the New York Times or Wall Street Journal for free with our institutional subscription.
  • BrowZine is an app for Apple or Android smart phones and devices that helps you flip through the scholarly electronic journals available through UT Southwestern Medical Center.
  • LibKey Nomad brings the Library’s journal holdings to wherever you are searching, both on- and off-campus.
  • Read & Publish Agreements – learn how the Library supports open access publishing with selected publishers, such as Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Sage, and Wiley.
  • Have you upgraded to EndNote 21?
  • Want to learn a new language? Try Pronunciator!
  • Brush up on your research skills and sign up for a class.

The Library’s Ejournals A to Z: new and improved!

The Library’s Ejournals A to Z has a new user interface! Search or browse the Library’s online collection of more than 23,000 electronic journals by title, subject, or database.

Now you can limit your search results by:

  • Peer review journals
  • Resource type (e.g., journal, book, report, newsletter, etc.)
  • Subject
  • Database

Note: EBSCO defines peer reviewed as follows:

  • Blind Peer Reviewed (or Double Blind Peer Reviewed)
  • Editorial Board Peer Review
  • Expert Peer Review

To make it easier for users to find articles on a given subject, EBSCO has developed its own thesaurus: EBSCO’s Comprehensive Subject Index (CSI). Each article indexed by EBSCO is assigned two or more subject headings from this thesaurus to describe the article’s content.

To view a PowerPoint tutorial featuring the updated user interface, please see Publication Finder – Overview Tutorial.

Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) and the University of Texas System reach new transformative agreement

The transformative agreement (TA) between IOPP and the University of Texas System allows affiliated researchers to publish unlimited OA articles in IOPP’s journals and most partner journals with the costs to publish already covered for a 3-year contract. TAs are key to making publicly funded research openly accessible to all on publication, in line with The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) policy.

More information about the agreement may be found on the Institute of Physics page on the Library’s APC Guide.

The UT Southwestern Library actively investigates other TA agreements with publishers as they become available, and the primary concern in these negotiations is evaluating whether supporting OA publishing may be accommodated by or applied to the usual annual price increases for subscription renewals. These efforts are being handled by Jon Crossno, Collection Management Librarian, and Kelly Gonzalez, Assistant Vice President of Library Services. Gonzalez also serves as chair of TLCUA, the organization who successfully negotiated the Elsevier negotiations.

Ejournal Virtual Bookshelf Using BrowZine

BrowZine is an app for Apple or Android smart phones and devices that helps you flip through the scholarly electronic journals available through UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Browzine has sorted UT Southwestern’s ejournals into broad subjects and then into narrower disciplines. You can save and organize your most-used ejournals on virtual bookshelves saved to your account. The result is an easy and familiar way to browse through, read, and monitor scholarly ejournals across disciplines.

For more information or to get started, please visit the BrowZine page in the Library’s LibKey Guide.

New York Times Audio App now available with Campus Subscription

As part of our Academic Site License News subscription, the New York Times has just launched New York Times Audio, a new iOS app for audio journalism and storytelling on world events, daily headlines, and reporter’s reads of top stories.

To access the app, you must first register your utsouthwestern.edu email address at nytimes.com (from on-campus or using VPN) and then visit accessnyt.com, type in “UT Southwestern Medical Center”, and follow the instructions to activate your account to get 24-hour app access.

Elsevier News – Article Processing Charges – Update 04/26/2023

The Library is pleased to announce that Elsevier will apply discounts retroactively for article processing charges (APCs). The effective date is July 1, 2022 – the start date for the APC discount program per our license agreement with Elsevier. For additional information on how the refund will be processed, please see the Elsevier APC Update Section.

Upcoming Wiley Webinars for Authors

Opening the Editor’s Black Box: Insider Tips for Successful Submissions

2 May 2023               11:00 AM CST

How to Promote Your Published Article

17 May 2023            1:00 PM CST

Opening the Editor’s Black Box: Insider Tips for Successful Submissions

7 June 2023                10:00 AM CST

How to Promote Your Published Article

13 June 2023   11:00 AM CST

Upcoming April Webinars on Open Access Publishing with Wiley

The Library now participates in a Read & Publish agreement with Wiley. The agreement allows UT Southwestern affiliated corresponding authors to publish articles as open access in eligible journals at no charge to them.

Wiley is offering the following two virtual classes on how to publish your manuscript in open access.

Monday, April 17, 2023, 12 pm CST
Register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4479675784079422295
Thursday, April 27, 2023, 12PM CST
Register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7543978406807553623

The class will cover…

  • What is Open Access and what are its benefits?
  • Wiley Open Access agreements with your institutions
  • How to access Wiley journals
  • Where to find citation, Altmetric, and Impact Factor information
  • Where to submit your manuscript, find the Author Guidelines and Aims and Scope of a journal
  • Writing tips for authors

Use Electronic Resources Responsibly!

From the Library’s website, authorized UT Southwestern users may access more than:

  • 440,000 electronic books
  • 25,000 electronic journals
  • 300 databases

Be aware that electronic resource use is governed by institutional license agreements. Publishers monitor use of their electronic resources for potential abuse, especially at the institutional level.

To assist you in using licensed resources responsibly and navigating the copyright and permissions labyrinth, the Library has updated two guides:

  • Copyright – includes background, answers to basic questions, links to UT System Policy and resources, and a copyright flowchart designed to assist you understand proper usage based on the media form and source.
  • Using Media – provides information on how to access and use media (i.e., images, video, audio) responsibly, request permissions and cite and attribute.

Questions? Please send them to LibAsk@utsouthwestern.edu.

Texas Universities Reach Historic Deal with Elsevier: TLCUA Saves Texas Universities Millions Collectively

(November 30, 2022) Texas Library Coalition for United Action (TLCUA) is pleased to announce that it has concluded negotiations with Elsevier, and all TLCUA members have signed or are finalizing new agreements for subscription journal access. In 2019, 44 public and private university campuses across Texas joined together to form TLCUA to think creatively about access to faculty publications and the sustainability of journal subscriptions. TLCUA has negotiated with Elsevier, the world’s largest publisher of scientific journals, including The Lancet and Cell and over 2,500 other journals covering topics in medicine, biology, psychology, engineering, business and more. The TLCUA effort aligns with other libraries across academia that have sought to evolve the relationship between libraries and publishers and find new ways to thrive together.

All TLCUA members will receive a discount on journal subscriptions—some as high as 30%—while still maintaining significant amounts of access to journals and combined, will realize a savings of over $4.75M annually. Beyond initial cost savings, Elsevier agreed to a maximum annual increase of 2% over the course of the license agreement, with some years as low as 0%, which is significantly lower than industry standard.

John Sharp, Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, said, “Since the beginning of the negotiations, the administration and faculty have stood behind the libraries in this effort. We are proud that so many institutions in Texas came together to realize cost savings and increase access not only in Texas but around the world.”

TLCUA certainly had ambitious goals to negotiate sustainable pricing for strained library budgets in higher education, but also made progress on its other goals of improving access to scholarship and providing authors with greater control over their published work over time.

TLCUA and Elsevier have agreed to partner on a pilot project to revert ownership of journal articles back to original authors—and not just those at TLCUA-member institutions. Currently, authors transfer copyright of their work in exchange for that work being published. This pilot will provide for rights to go back to authors after a period of time that will be collaboratively determined with Elsevier. A subset of Elsevier journals will be chosen to study the impact of the copyright reversion pilot for authors and its applicability more broadly to STEM (scientific, technical, engineering and medical) publishers.

Further, all TLCUA-member authors who choose to publish their work under an open access license will have access to discounted author publication charges (APCs). TLCUA also negotiated a license template that removed non-disclosure terms, restrictions on sharing usage data, and 44-year-old limitations on interlibrary loans (i.e., CONTU Guidelines) to expand library collaboration and improve how libraries can share information on journal usage.

“We worked very hard with Elsevier leadership and negotiators to come to an agreement that aligns the values and priorities of our members and those held by Elsevier,” says lead negotiator and open access advocate Jeffrey Spies of 221B Consulting. “I am particularly excited about the copyright pilot project. Copyright is an often-overlooked ingredient in securing a more open scholarship, and the library community has a real opportunity here: to work with authors to share their work openly because it will once again be their work.”

Along with Spies, the team negotiating with Elsevier consisted of faculty, library leaders and librarians with collections expertise representing the diverse membership of TLCUA. They are David Carlson, former Dean of University Libraries at Texas A&M University; Kelly Gonzalez, Assistant Vice President for Library Services at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Deborah Hathaway, Acquisitions and Collection Development Librarian at the University of Dallas; Ian Knabe, Head of Acquisitions and Resource Sharing at the University of Houston; Asheley Landrum, Associate Professor and interim Assistant Dean for Research in the College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University; Vagheesh Narasimhan, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology and Statistics and Data Sciences at the University of Texas Austin; Richard Nollan, former Dean of Libraries at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center; Alexia Thompson-Young, Assistant Director of Scholarly Resources at the University of Texas Austin; Charles Weaver, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Associate Dean for Sciences at Baylor University; and Ginger Williams, Head Acquisitions Administrative Librarian at Texas State University.

Initial workshops to define the parameters of the pilot project will begin soon. TLCUA has begun exploring their next negotiation priorities and other projects that can benefit from state-wide collaboration. Sara Lowman, TLCUA Chair and Vice Provost and University Librarian at Rice University, is enthusiastic about the future of TLCUA. “The Coalition demonstrated what can be done when Texas institutions aligned by their principles work together. We have big plans,” she said.

About TLCUA

TLCUA represents more than 660,000 students and 44,000 faculty. This consortium is one of the largest and most diverse library consortia in the United States. Faculty in the Coalition member libraries account for 7.2% of all research output in the United States and about 6% of all U.S. research published by Elsevier. The economic impact of Coalition members is significant with annual expenditures exceeding $275 million.

Current TLCUA members are:

  • Angelo State University
  • Baylor University
  • Lamar University
  • Prairie View A&M University
  • Rice University
  • Sam Houston State University
  • Stephen F. Austin State University
  • Sul Ross State University
  • Tarleton State University
  • Texas A&M International University
  • Texas A&M University (College Station)
  • Texas A&M University-Central Texas
  • Texas A&M University-Commerce
  • Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
  • Texas A&M University-Kingsville
  • Texas A&M University-San Antonio
  • Texas A&M University School of Dentistry
  • Texas A&M University-Texarkana
  • Texas Medical Center
  • Texas State University
  • Texas Tech University (Lubbock)
  • Texas Tech University Health Science Center El Paso
  • Texas Tech University Health Science Center Lubbock
  • The University of Dallas
  • The University of Houston
  • The University of Houston Clear Lake
  • The University of Houston Downtown
  • The University of North Texas
  • The University of North Texas Health Science Center
  • The University of Texas at Arlington
  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • The University of Texas at Dallas
  • The University of Texas at El Paso
  • The University of Texas at San Antonio
  • The University of Texas at Tyler
  • The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
  • The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
  • The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
  • The University of Texas Permian Basin
  • The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  • The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • West Texas A&M University

Contact

Dr. Jeffrey Spies, TLCUA lead negotiator (+1-219-979-6676; press@221b.io)