Archive for the ‘News’ Category

TDL offers courses on Vireo and Open Conference Systems

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Sign up now for March 25 training courses: ETD Management with Vireo and Online Conference Management with OCS.

TDL travels to WebWise 2010

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

TDL co-director Mark McFarland attends WebWise 2010 March 3-5 to showcase Vireo, the TDL’s submission and management system for electronic theses and dissertations.

New issue of Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is available

Monday, March 1st, 2010

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, an online scholarly journal hosted by the TDL Electronic Press, has released its latest issue entitled “Virtual Economies, Virtual Goods and Service Delivery in Virtual Worlds.”

Scholarly Electronic Journals training course rescheduled for March 11

Friday, February 26th, 2010

The Scholarly Electronic Journals training course originally planned for February 23 has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 11, 2010. The course had been postponed due to inclement weather in the Waco area.

Registration is open for TCDL 2010!

Friday, February 26th, 2010

The TDL is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 4th annual Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, to be held May 17-18, 2010, in Austin, Texas.

TDL announces keynote speakers for TCDL 2010

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Dr. Leslie Carr and Dr. Reagan Moore will deliver the keynote addresses at the 2010 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. TCDL 2010 takes place May 17-18 in Austin, Texas.

February issue of TDL Update newsletter now available

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Check out the latest issue of TDL Update, the newsletter of the Texas Digital Library, to learn how the TDL and its members are working together to advance scholarly communications.

February 23 training classes postponed due to inclement weather

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Because of a forecast for inclement weather in the Waco area, the Texas Digital Library will not hold training courses at Baylor University on February 23 as planned. An announcement regarding makeup sessions for the classes will be forthcoming.

TDL demos Vireo 1.0.1 and begins testing phase

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

On Tuesday, February 16, The Texas Digital Library development team held a demonstration of the Vireo 1.0.1 release at TDL headquarters at UT Austin. Lab instances of the new version will be available for testing by TDL member institutions beginning February 17.

TDL members ranked among the world’s top institutional repositories

Monday, February 15th, 2010

The University of Texas at Austin Digital Repository has been ranked #50 in the Ranking Web of World Repositories’ list of the top 400 institutional repositories in the world.