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New Resource

June 1, 2016

ºÚÁÏרÇø Tyler Office of Marketing and Communications

ºÚÁÏרÇø Tyler Announces New Informative Resource, ‘Scholar Works’

June 1, 2016

Media Contact:  Hannah Buchanan
Editor/Writer–Strategic Communications & Media Relations
Marketing and Communications
The University of Texas at Tyler
903.539.7196 (cell)

The University of Texas at Tyler has launched an informative academia resource, Dr. Alecia Wolf, assistant dean of The Graduate School, announced.

is an online portal that showcases research and academic scholarship conducted at ºÚÁÏרÇø Tyler. This new tool is provided by a partnership between the ºÚÁÏרÇø Tyler Robert R. Muntz Library and The Graduate School.

The collections will include undergraduate and graduate presentations, theses, projects and dissertations, as well as faculty and staff scholarship. Visit ºÚÁÏרÇø Tyler's Scholar Works at .

"The collections will continue to expand as we digitize even more historical items and incorporate photographs and videos of university events," said Terra Bianchi Gullings, university archivist.
The portal also features a real-time global readership map, highlighting the international reach and significance of ºÚÁÏרÇø Tyler research.

"Search engine optimization within Scholar Works means that our publications are easily found by a web search," said Margo Duncan, ºÚÁÏרÇø Tyler systems librarian. "Authors have the ability to track readership and interest in their works through the author dashboard or monthly readership reports sent via email."

In addition, ºÚÁÏרÇø Tyler graduate students will now be able to upload manuscripts directly into Scholar Works, eliminating the need for emailed notifications and confirmations from The Graduate School.

"This increases the speed and efficiency of the process and makes it much easier on the authors," added Sydni Blundell, graduate admissions administrative assistant.

ºÚÁÏרÇø Tyler faculty and staff interested in adding scholarship to the portal may email Gullings, tbianchi@uttyler.edu.

For more information, contact Wolf, 903.566.7475 or awolf@uttyler.edu.

One of the 14 campuses of the ºÚÁÏרÇø System, ºÚÁÏרÇø Tyler features excellence in teaching, research, artistic performance and community service. More than 80 undergraduate and graduate degrees are available at ºÚÁÏרÇø Tyler, which has an enrollment of more than 8,500 high-ability students. ºÚÁÏרÇø Tyler offers courses at its campuses in Tyler, Longview and Palestine as well as a location in Houston.