The Texas Conference on Digital Libraries covers topics relevant to the creation, promotion and preservation of research, scholarship and cultural heritage digital materials. This year’s conference will be held April 28-29 at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in Austin.
- Looking for lunch places? check out the Austin Dining map for restaurant suggestions around the AT&T Conference Center.
- How do I get to....? Check the TCDL 2014 conference locations map for directions to the Perry-Castaneda Library, Harry Ransom Center of TACC Visualization lab.
Institutional repositories (IRs) were designed as a way to provide open access (OA) to research articles written by university faculty. Much of what is being produced on college campuses does not fit into the tidy research article category, and any IR administrator can tell you that users want to submit more than just research articles. In addition to the OA aspect of IRs, repository users are very interested in having a reliable way of pointing to their work, and many of them look at IRs as an archive for their digital scholarship.
Colleen Lyon is the Head of Scholarly Communications at the University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of responsibility include open access, copyright education, and institutional repository management.
