UT faculty have access to three resources to electronically submit articles to individual or multiple law journals:
SSRN offers eSubmission to UT faculty. To use this service, UT authors can first log on to http://hq.ssrn.com and upload abstracts and papers to the SSRN database. Now authors can select the “eSubmission” icon to submit abstracts and PDF copies of articles to one or more participating journals. When launched, eSubmission had 150 participating journals; 60 more journals are in the process of joining.
Expresso is a product of Berkeley Electronic Press (Bepress). UT authors can log on to http://law.bepress.com/expresso and upload articles, cover letters and CVs. Authors can also chose to submit the article to any of 400 participating journals. While Expresso generally sends journals electronic copies of each article, it will mail print copies to those journals that require paper submissions.
LexOpus (https://lawlib.wlu.edu/lexopus/index.aspx) is a recently launched service at Washington and Lee Law School offering free online submissions to law journals. The service has two facets:
An author can make a work 'open to offers' as well as submit to specific journals, or can do one or the other. As the system does permit uploading of revisions authors might make working papers open to offers and then, if no acceptable offers have been received, when the finished work is available submit that version to specific law journals.
Works can be suppressed from public view if the author so desires.
Reminder: To post a work to SSRN or BePress, you must hold the copyright to that work, or have the approval of the copyright holder to do so.
The Library maintains a permanent collection of faculty writings in Rare Books and Special Collections as part of the School of Law archives. This collection includes scholarly publications in all print formats. Faculty members wishing to be included in the collection should submit copies of their publications to the department via their library liaison.
The Library is actively collaborating with the larger UT Austin library community in the development of a digital Institutional Repository. One of our future collections will be faculty scholarship. Currently, the repository houses back issues of the Faculty Publications Newsletter, which continues to announce new faculty scholarship as it is published.