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Join the Paper Pledge for the Planet

As part of its celebration of 2024 International Open Access Week, the Texas Digital Library joins with the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, EIFL, the Open Climate Campaign, and other regional, national, and institutional partners, to invite you to participate in the Paper Pledge for the Planet.

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Posted in Institutional Repositories, Open Access, Texas Digital Library


TDL to participate in USRN Discovery Pilot

Texas Digital Library is pleased to participate with its members in a pilot project aimed at improving the discoverability and tracking of articles in U.S. repositories, led by the US Repository Network (USRN).

Posted in DSpace, Institutional Repositories, Open Access


TDL upgrades hosted digital repositories to DSpace 7

DSpace logoIn June 2023, Texas Digital Library began upgrading its members’ hosted digital repositories to DSpace 7.6, a major new release of the world’s platform of choice for open digital repositories.

About DSpace 7

DSpace 7 marks a major evolution in the DSpace repository platform,

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Posted in DSpace, Institutional Repositories


Exploring Digital Collections of the Texas Digital Library

The Find Five project intends to showcase the digital collections of Texas Digital Library’s member institutions and encourage non-digital library staff to engage with digital content in repositories. Any professional library and archives staff member or graduate student working in a TDL member library is invited to participate in the Find Five project.

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Posted in digital collections, DSpace, Institutional Repositories


FIND FIVE Promotes TDL Member Collections

Attention Texas Digital Library Members: Help us promote your digital collections by participating in the FIND FIVE project!

WHAT IS FIND FIVE?

The Find Five project intends to showcase the digital collections of TDL member institutions and encourage non-digital library staff to engage with digital content in repositories. 

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Posted in call for comment, digital collections, Institutional Repositories



Digital Collections and Communities

By Rachael Zipperer, Masters Candidate at the University of Texas School of Information

Digital archives can also be a home for materials from community members. Stephen F. Austin State’s Community Collections are a great example of bringing community members into the digital archive.

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Posted in digital collections, Institutional Repositories, Texas Digital Library


Scholarly Works in Digital Repositories

By Rachael Zipperer, Masters Candidate at the University of Texas School of Information

Digital repositories are often home to recent scholarship. Housing electronic dissertations and theses and other scholarly works in digital repositories gives scholars greater exposure and contributes to the larger scholarly community by sharing research openly.

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Posted in Institutional Repositories, scholarly communication, Texas Digital Library


What is a Digital Repository?

By Rachael Zipperer, Masters Candidate at the University of Texas School of Information

Key to engaging participants in digital preservation is understanding what a digital repository is and its role in preserving digital content. When physical items are preserved,

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Posted in Institutional Repositories, Texas Digital Library


Digital Preservation Management Workshop Offers Roadmap to Starting Point

By Lea DeForest, Texas Digital Library Communication Strategist

August 28,  2018

For a digital archivist like Kristen Weischedel, being a perfectionist is an internal struggle. Tasked with developing a digital preservation program for her library was a daunting project for Kristen,

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Posted in Chronopolis, digital preservation, Institutional Repositories, Member Story, Preservation Network


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