About ScholarWorks@UTEP

ScholarWorks@UTEP, a service of the UTEP Library, is an open-access institutional repository — a digital archive of the scholarship, research, and creative work produced at UTEP. The repository runs on the Digital Commons platform, which is used by institutions worldwide.

Who Can Contribute?

ScholarWorks@UTEP is open to contributions from all members of the UTEP community:

  • • Faculty
  • • Staff
  • • Undergraduate students
  • • Graduate students

What Can Be Added?

ScholarWorks@UTEP accepts a wide range of content types, including:

  • • Theses & dissertations
  • • Open-access articles
  • • Pre-prints and post-prints
  • • Working papers and technical reports
  • • Case studies and frameworks
  • • Visual materials (e.g., photographs)
  • • Audio/video materials, including native streaming
  • • Conference presentations
  • • OER textbooks
  • • Datasets
  • • E-journals
  • • And more!

Certain content types have dedicated collection formats configured specifically for them:

  • • E-journals
  • • Conference and symposium proceedings
  • • Ebooks and book covers
  • • Image galleries and visual material collections

Benefits of Adding Your Work

  • • Usage statistics: Receive monthly download reports and see where your work is being accessed around the world.
  • • Broader discoverability: Works appear in Google and Google Scholar results and are included in the Digital Commons Network, a worldwide knowledge commons organized by discipline.
  • • Customization options: Collections can be configured with a banner image, description, and website link to reflect your project or research group's identity.
  • • Open access: ScholarWorks provides worldwide access to your work at no cost to readers.

What About Copyright?

Depositing a published article in ScholarWorks@UTEP is generally permitted under your author rights. For information on your publisher's self-archiving policy, consult Jisc Open Policy Finder.

We encourage usage of Creative Commons licensing options in place of traditional copyright when applicable. This can only be applied if a traditional copyright has not already been applied to your works and if the work hasn't appeared anywhere else. CC licenses work within copyright law to grant others specific permissions to use, share, and build upon your work while you retain authorship, reflecting the open access values that ScholarWorks@UTEP is built on.

If you have copyright concerns, please contact our ScholarWorks Administrator, Alyssa Pope or the OER Librarian, Tessy Torres.

Policies

For more information, see our Policies (coming soon).