The ResearchCommons (RC) is the digital institutional repository for UTA where you can showcase your work and expand your visibility for increased citations. The RC allows your work to be accessible to the global research community. You are welcome to submit research materials in almost any medium. Advantages to uploading your work to the RC include the following:
To save you time, the library will deposit your materials into the RC on your behalf. We will check the copyright status of previously published materials, upload the materials we can legally archive in the RC, and describe the materials for you. Alternatively, you can upload your materials and curate your collection or designate a graduate research assistant to do so. We will be happy to get you started.
An institutional repository is a single, online place where a community (in this case, the University of Texas Arlington) gathers and preserves scholarly output produced by its members and makes these materials available to the world (copyright permitting). This output may include both publications in peer-reviewed journals and materials not published elsewhere (datasets, pre-prints, post-prints, performance recordings, syllabi, theses and dissertations, book chapters etc).