Partners

TDL’s primary partners are its members, whose financial and in-kind contributions are essential to TDL’s mission of ensuring equitable access to and preservation of digital content of value to research, instruction, cultural heritage, and institutional memory. Find out more about membership in the Texas Digital Library.

Texas Digital Library also partners with aligned organizations to serve its members and its broader missions of global Open Access via community-supported infrastructure.

	TDL is a Platinum Member of DSpace, whose organizational home is Lyrasis. Through its membership in DSpace, TDL supports the on-going development of the open source DSpace platform, the foundation of its Digital Repository Hosting service. DSpace, the software and the community, is one of the largest of its kind spanning the globe in usage for 20+ years.
	The Texas Digital Library, along with the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin, has joined the Chronopolis digital preservation network. Other nodes in the TRAC-certified digital preservation network, which is administered by the UC San Diego Library, include the University of California San Diego; the National Center for Atmospheric Research; and the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. Chronopolis leverages high-speed networks, mass-scale storage capabilities, and the expertise of the partners, to provide a geographically distributed, heterogeneous, and highly redundant preservation repository system.
	Texas Digital Library is a development partner for the open source software platform DuraCloud. Lyrasis is DuraCloud’s organizational home. A TDL-hosted instance of DuraCloud is a core component of TDL’s digital preservation services.
	The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is committed to its mission to enable discoveries that advance science and society through the application of advanced computing technologies. TACC provides resources and services to researchers nationwide; conducts research and development projects around the technologies we use; and provides training and education for the local and national scientific community. With more than 80 dedicated staff members, TACC supports top-notch research in every field of science from chemistry, astronomy, physics and biology, to nanotechnology, materials science and bio-informatics. TACC serves as a vital part of the TDL’s preservation infrastructure and its Texas Data Repository service.
	TDL is a member of the Global Dataverse Community Consortium (GDCC) and uses the open source Dataverse software application as part of its Texas Data Repository service. GDCC is dedicated to providing international organization to existing Dataverse community efforts, and will provide a collaborative venue for institutions to leverage economies of scale in support of Dataverse repositories around the world.
	TDL is a Bronze member of the the Public Knowledge Project, a research and development initiative directed toward improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online publishing and knowledge-sharing environments. PKP is the development home of the open-source software Open Journal Systems, which TDL uses as part of its Open Access Journal hosting service.
	Texas Digital Library is a consortial member of the The Open Education Network (OEN). OEN is an alliance of higher education institutions committed to improving access, affordability, and academic success through the use of open textbooks. The OEN focuses on training libraries and faculty to build capacity for Open Textbook programs. Learn more about benefits of TDL’s OEN Consortium Membership for TDL Member Institutions.
	Portico is a community-supported digital preservation service that safeguards access to e-journals, e-books, and digital collections to ensure they remain accessible and usable for future researchers, scholars, and students through a methodology that includes replicas located with trusted partners. Together with its partners at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, Texas Digital Library hosts a Portico replica using storage resources at TACC. Learn more about this partnership here.