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- Dissemination: TSW provides high visibility and increased access to your research by furnishing descriptive information about your submitted works to search engines, Google Scholar and other services.
- Increased impact and citation of your research: Works in TSW are openly available on the web. See a bibliography of studies on the increased impact and higher citations of open access research and scholarship.
- Reliability: TSW provides a digital object identifier (DOI), which is a kind of persistent URL, for your work.
- Long-term access: TSW commits to responsible and sustainable management of submitted works. View the Preservation Policy for details.
- Control: You or your assignee retain copyright in works you submit to TSW. Many publishers will allow you to submit previously published works to institutional repositories..
- Usage statistics: All items in TSW have an openly accessible link to view usage statistics. You will be able to see how many times your work has been viewed and downloaded, and you can see where that activity originated.
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UT Austin is a founding member of the Texas Digital Library (TDL), a collaborative consortium based in Texas and rooted in higher education, that builds capacity for ensuring equitable access to digital scholarship. Texas Digital Library provides hosting and preservation services for Texas ScholarWorks. You can find more information about TDL, its members, or its services on the TDL website.
A PDF I'm
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trying to open is only displaying the first page - all the other pages are blank. How do I fix this?
Larger PDFs may have difficulty displaying within a web browser. Try going to your downloads folder and opening the file from there instead of opening within the browser. You could also save the file to a different folder on your computer (other than the downloads folder) and then open from that folder. If you are doing that and still having trouble getting the PDF to display, please contact tsw@utlists.utexas.edu for assistance.
I'm having trouble using Texas ScholarWorks. Who should I report this to?
If you are having technical problems with usingTexas ScholarWorks, please contact the Repository Curator at tsw@utlists.utexas.edu to report the problem.
I'm having trouble using a file in Texas ScholarWorks because it isn't accessible. Who should I contact?
We strive to make sure all files in TSW are accessible, but we recognize that with hundreds of thousands of files uploaded by many different parties, there may be materials that don’t meet accessibility best practices. If you are having trouble with a specific file or group of files, please contact tsw@utlists.utexas.edu for assistance.
I found an item in Texas ScholarWorks that has problematic, harmful, or offensive text or images. Who should I contact?
We aim to provide access to collection materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, steward, and are represented in our holdings, but we realize that descriptive work is not and never has been neutral: it is done by people with their own backgrounds, experiences, and biases. We are committed to reviewing and correcting harmful language in our descriptions, and providing contextualization for language within the documents themselves. When providing feedback on Texas ScholarWorks (TSW) materials, please include a URL to the relevant item whenever possible.
Please see UT Libraries' Statement on Harmful Language and Content for more information.
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I'm having trouble using a file in Texas ScholarWorks because it isn't accessible. Who should I contact?
We strive to make sure all files in TSW are accessible, but we recognize that with hundreds of thousands of files uploaded by many different parties, there may be materials that don’t meet accessibility best practices. If you are having trouble with a specific file or group of files, please contact tsw@utlists.utexas.edu for assistance.
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Getting Started
What are Texas ScholarWorks communities and collections?
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The administrators for Texas ScholarWorks may upload UT Austin authored content that is free of any copyright restrictions that would limit distribution. These are usually open access publications that are published with a CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) license or , are from publishers that allow PDF versions of their articles to be posted in institutional repositories, or are items that are in the public domain. Since TSW was established to provide open, online access to the scholarship of the university, we add those works to Texas ScholarWorks. If you have questions or concerns about your work, please contact the Repository Curator at tsw@utlists.utexas.edu.
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Graduating doctoral students at The University of Texas at Austin, as of the summer semester of 2001, are required to publish an electronic copy of their dissertation. Master's students, as of Fall 2010, are required to publish an electronic copy of their thesis. Texas ScholarWorks accepts deposits of theses and dissertations from the Office of Graduate Studies at UT Austin. These digital documents and their metadata are exposed to Google and other search engines upon deposit so they can be available to the world for viewing and downloading.
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No. The digital version of your work in Texas ScholarWorks is an exact copy of your submitted version which was signed and approved by your committee and the Office of Graduate Studies. The UT Libraries cannot accept modified or replacement versions. The only exception to this is a vita page listed in a public ETD. If your ETD does have a vita page and you’d like it removed, please contact tsw@utlists.utexas.edu.
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If you would like to request a digital copy of someone else's thesis or dissertation (i.e. you are not the author), please contact InterLibrary Services to request a scanned digital copy for a fee: ilslend@lib.utexas.edu
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