Open Access Policy at Virginia Tech: About VTechWorks

VTechWorks provides global access to Virginia Tech scholarship. 

• 100,000+ items and growing
• 3,000+ downloads per day, on average
• Highest usage from the U.S., India, China, the Philippines, the U.K., and Canada; downloads come from almost every country in the world
• Indexed by all search engines, as well as Google Scholar, Unpaywall, BASE, OpenAlex, Lens, and the university homepage search (vt.edu)
• A permanent URL (handle) for each item
• Download statistics for each item
• Preservation for each item and metadata updates
• Maintained by VT Libraries - contact us anytime, vtechworks@vt.edu
• Read more about VTechWorks in this VT News article