Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange (TRACE)

University of Tennessee Knoxville's Open Access Institutional Repository

TRACE is a publicly accessible archive of research, creative work, and scholarship produced by the UT community created and maintained by the UT Libraries to preserve UT Knoxville's intellectual output freely and make it available to the world so it can make life and lives better.

What's in TRACE? Academic journal articles, theses and dissertations, technical reports, datasets, conference papers and presentations, book chapters, creative works, administrative materials, and open access VOL Journals hosted by UT Libraries.

Who can contribute? Any member of the UT community can upload material to TRACE. We provide a legal pathway to share your work openly, in keeping with the terms of your publication agreements.

Get started or get help:

New to TRACE? Review the TRACE User Guide here.
Need help with your TRACE submission? Check out our TRACE tutorials here.
- Looking for specific tutorials?
- Click here for a tutorial on TRACE Basics.
- Click here for a tutorial on using the TRACE Submission Form.
- Click here for a tutorial on what happens after you submit to TRACE.
Found a problem with content? Request an accessible copy here or use our contact form to provide a detailed explanation of the problem.
Have feedback on the new platform? Use this form.
Looking for our V.O.L. Journals content? Click here.