The University of Texas Libraries is committed to increasing the visibility of research and scholarship. One way of doing that is supporting open access publishing. Open access allows anyone to find and use scholarly works, and it provides a tangible demonstration of the value of research, higher education, and scholarly discourse. In order to advance the open agenda at the University of Texas, we've opened an institutional deposit account with PeerJ. UT Austin affiliated researchers can use the account to pay article processing charges for PeerJ and PeerJ Computer Science.

In addition to supporting publication in open access journals, we also manage an online archive called Texas ScholarWorks. Texas ScholarWorks provides access and preservation for UT Austin authored scholarly articles and non-traditional forms of scholarship like posters, conference presentations, white papers, and student works.

For more information about PeerJ, Texas ScholarWorks or other UT Libraries open access initiatives, please see our website or contact Colleen Lyon, Scholarly Communications Librarian, c.lyon@austin.utexas.edu.