The Texas Digital Library (TDL) is a multi-university consortium dedicated to providing the digital infrastructure to support a fully online scholarly community for institutions of higher education in Texas. Formed in 2005 by four Texas members of the Association of Research Libraries, the TDL has extended membership in the consortium to any of the state’s institutions of higher learning.
Through the establishment of shared policies and standards, forums for professional interaction, expertise in digital collections and preservation, and robust technical services, the TDL aims to increase the availability of the enormous intellectual capital of Texas universities and to preserve it for future generations.
Goals | What Services Does the TDL Provide? | More Information
Goals
- Provide open access to the scholarly assets of member institutions
- Enable long-term preservation of digital collections
- Provide a platform for shaping the evolution of scholarly communication in the 21st century
- Foster scholarly communities while promoting the research of Texas scholars
- Reduce cost burdens through the sharing of monetary and technical resources across multiple institutions
- Create a competitive advantage for seeking gifts and grants by serving as a testbed for research
What Services Does the TDL Provide?
The Texas Digital Library (TDL) provides services to TDL member institutions, faculty at those institutions, and the general public, including:
Institutional Services
- Digital Institutional Repositories – A centralized storage, management, and publication system which accepts any digital asset and makes it available in an online environment.
- ETD submission and management – With Vireo, the TDL’s electronic thesis and dissertation submission and management system, graduate schools and their students can easily handle the ETD process via a customizable interface.
Faculty Services
- Electronic Journals – Equal parts online publisher and distributed workflow mechanism, the TDL’s journal application allows members to create and manage peer-reviewed online journal through an efficient Web interface.
- Scholarly Blogs – Faculty members at TDL institutions can set up blogs quickly and easily for use in information sharing, commentary, and dialogue.
- Research Wikis – Information-sharing among project members and with the world is made fast and easy through a wiki interface.
- Faculty Directory – Faculty members can add their own homepages using the TDL Faculty Directory.
- Online Conference Management – Conference organizers can create a Web presence for their conferences and manage the peer review process for conference submissions.
More Information
For additional information about the Texas Digital Library, please visit the Projects page for current development efforts, the Members page for a list of member institutions and information about joining the TDL, and the Organization and Staffing page for details about the TDL’s structure.
If you have questions or would like other information, please contact the TDL team.