The University of Tennessee Libraries announces the launch of Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange (trace.tennessee.edu), a digital repository which will expand access to the university’s intellectual capital and help preserve the creative work of its scholars and researchers.
Open access services like Trace provide free online access to scholarly work and apply tags that make that work more discoverable by Internet search engines. UT faculty are invited to enhance the research impact of their work by depositing it with Trace.
Trace lets any UT faculty, staff or student save their work in the database regardless of genre or format — pre-prints, datasets, multimedia, conference presentations, technical reports, image collections, public performances, theses and dissertations — through an easy-to-use Web interface. UT-affiliated persons can deposit their work in the database, and anyone with Internet access can view the content. Trace depositors keep their copyright ownership and may, at the same time, extend nonexclusive rights for noncommercial use.
