The Texas Digital Library (TDL) provides a variety of services for faculty members at TDL member institutions. These services include scholarly blogs, research project wikis, and online peer-reviewed journals. The Service Request System enables faculty members to request new services and monitor the status of their requests.
Who Can Request Services?
The Texas Digital Library offers services promoting scholarly communication in Texas to faculty members at participating shibboleth institutions. Please contact us if you have any questions about eligibility.
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What Services Can Be Requested?
We are continually adding and refreshing services offered by the Texas Digital Library. Following are the services currently available:
Scholarly Blogs
TDL offers blogging services using the popular WordPress software. The service offers an easy to use management interface, RSS feeds, user comments, and feedback. Blogs allow faculty to share their work, latest news in their fields, excerpts from writing in progress, and other information. The TDL blog service focuses on disseminating information about research and scholarship produced by and impacting institutions of higher education in Texas.
Research Project Wikis
TDL offers wiki services using the MediaWiki software, the same software that powers wikipedia. A wiki offers collaborative editing of web-based content through a simple interface. This service is designed to facilitate information exchange within project teams and groups of research specialists.
Coming Soon: Peer Reviewed Journals
TDL offers journal services using the Open Journal System software. This service offers a complete workflow system for article submission, peer review, and editing that is completely web-based and designed to facilitate the de-centralized collaboration of the peer review process. This alternative to traditional publishing provides additional opportunities for information-sharing, particularly within specialized disciplines and emerging fields of study. TDL journals are open access, viewable by the public at no cost.