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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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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.
Getting Started
What are Texas ScholarWorks communities and collections?
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Detailed information about the submission process can be found in our Help section. If you are interested in having the library manage the submission process for you please see the Collections Policy for more information.
How do I gain authorization to submit to Texas ScholarWorks?
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If your department or research unit wants to establish a collection, we are happy to work with you to set up access, membership, and other parameters. Each collection will have one or more people who will help define specific procedures and guidelines. For more information about collection responsibilities, see the Collections Policy. To get started, please contact tsw@utlists.utexas.edu.
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TSW accepts research and scholarship, as well as works that reflect the intellectual and service environment of the campus. Specifically, all kinds of scholarly research materials and content including pre-prints, post-prints, previously published material (if allowed by the publisher), working papers, technical reports, presentations, as well as other scholarship not usually submitted for peer-reviewed publications may be submitted to an appropriate collection in TSW. The work submitted must be ready for distribution (see the Submission and Withdrawal Policy for more information on submission guidelines). For information about submitting data, see Texas Data Repository or the Research Data Services website.
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Any digital format will be accepted; however, we encourage you to submit in a file format recommended for submission (please see Recommended File Formats for a list of preferred formats).
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For additional information, please see the Copyright and Licensing Repository Policy.
What rights do I retain to my work when submitting to Texas ScholarWorks?
You, or your copyright assignees, retain all your intellectual property rights. The limited rights you grant to TSW are non-exclusive, and your ability to grant, assign, or retain any and all rights you had before your submission does not change as a result of your submission. For more information, please see the Copyright and Licensing Policy. Please note that some publishers may ask that you grant them exclusive rights to your work, thus limiting your ability to use the work as you see fit and perhaps even limiting your ability to submit it to TSW. Please email tsw@utlists.utexas.edu with questions about rights for your works.
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When you publish, you can negotiate with the publisher to retain the right to submit your work to TSW by using the SPARC Author Addendum or by directly modifying the publisher’s license. Please see the Copyright and Licensing Policy for more information.
Can I publish my work if I've already submitted it to Texas ScholarWorks?
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Under special circumstances, items may be withdrawn from TSW. Please see the Withdrawal section of the Submission and Withdrawal Policy for more information.
Access to electronic theses and dissertations are open in accordance with the policies of the Office of Graduate Studies; see "I've found my ETD in the repository and I don't think it should be there. What do I do?" for more information.
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