he Moody Medical Library at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) has added four medical history collections from the Truman G. Blocker Jr. History of Medicine Collections to its Texas Digital Library (TDL) repository.
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Member Story: History of Medical Collections in the UTMB Institutional Repository
Monday, April 23rd, 2012Article outlines cooperative efforts between Texas A&M, University of Texas libraries
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011As the A&M/UT game approaches (and a football rivalry comes to an end, for now), the TAMUtimes focuses on ongoing areas of collaboration between the two universities, including projects where their libraries are working together to preserve valuable resources.
Digital libraries experts come to Austin for Open Repositories 2011
Thursday, June 16th, 2011The Texas Digital Library was pleased to co-sponsor the Sixth International Conference on Open Repositories (OR11), which was held this year in Austin on June 6-11.
Member Story: Texas A&M, TDL provide data management support for researchers
Thursday, February 17th, 2011A report from Texas A&M Libraries on efforts to support grant-seeking faculty in meeting new NSF requirements to develop data management plans.
Member Story: TDL-hosted Galveston Bay Bibliography disseminates essential information for researchers
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010TDL member Texas A&M Galveston works to safeguard the future of Galveston Bay through the Galveston Bay Information Center (GBIC), a key piece of which is a TDL-hosted DSpace repository.
Member Story: UT Southwestern Medical Center Library moves ETDs to DSpace
Friday, December 3rd, 2010Using TDL services, member institution UT Southwestern Medical Center Library is upgrading its electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) program to streamline submission and management and make theses and dissertations more visible to the worldwide scholarly community.
Member Story: Texas A&M Libraries chronicles African-American farm life in DSpace collection
Friday, October 15th, 2010TDL founding member Texas A&M Libraries has published an exciting set of images in its institutional repository dealing with African-American farming life in Texas during the middle of the last century.
NSF releases guidelines for data management
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010The National Science Foundation has released its new Data Management Policy for researchers preparing grant proposals.
Can you have a successful institutional repository without a mandate?
Thursday, August 19th, 2010The UK’s Open University argues, in a poster presented at Open Repositories 2010, that a successful institutional repository can be built through active advocacy and management — without a mandate.
Digital repositories in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010The Chronicle of Higher Education provides an update on the state of institutional repositories in US higher education in the article “Digital Repositories Foment a Quiet Revolution in Scholarship.” The article chronicles some of the disappointments of IRs, but also highlights some successes — focusing attention on instances where deposit in the IR has made [...]