TRACE User Support
Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange (TRACE) is UT’s institutional open-access repository. TRACE is a publicly-accessible archive of research and creative work done by UT scholars and researchers.
Created and maintained by the UT Libraries, TRACE gives UT researchers a legal means to make their publications openly available to the public, in keeping with the terms of their agreements with publishers. TRACE houses a variety of materials, including journal articles, technical reports, datasets, theses and dissertations, conference papers and presentations, book chapters, and other works.
About TRACE
User Support
- Submission Guide: How to submit your work to TRACE
- Author/Contributor FAQ
- Collection Manager Guide
- HTML and Coding Tips (Special Characters, bold, italics, etc)
- Thesis/Dissertation Resources
VOL Journals
- Volunteer, Open-Access, Library-Hosted (VOL) Journals
- New Journal Setup/Proposal Form (submit to TRACE@utk.edu)
- Editor Best Practices: Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
- Journal Editor Guide (links to Digital Commons help pages)
Department, School & Center Collections
- College, School, & Department Collections
- Center & Institute Collections
- Collection Setup/Proposal Form (submit to TRACE@utk.edu)
- Collection Manager Guide
- Collection Manager FAQ
Datasets
- TRACE Datasets
- UT Libraries Data Services Guide
- Contact UT’s Data Curation Librarian for help sharing your data
If you have questions or would like further information on a particular topic, contact trace@utk.edu or reach out to the appropriate subject liaison librarian.
Volunteers Basketball Media Guides
This digital collection shares the annually-published men's basketball media guides from 1952 to 1980.

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