The University of Texas at Austin is opening to the public today part of their collection of the notes created by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during the Watergate scandal. The University of Texas purchased the notes for $5 million in 2003. The documents include the image to the right, the first page of Bob Woodward’s notebook from the preliminary hearing for the men arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate complex.

The university has announced an exhibit of a selection of the reporter’s notes and sketches by NBC’s courtroom artist for the 1974 Watergate trials will go on display at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at 9 a.m., and they will hold a (sold out) symposium with Woodward, Bernstein, and a prestigious panel of historians and journalists today as well. Not in Texas? Not to worry, the Ransom center has launched an online exhibition of excerpts from the collection and an online finding aid where you can get a better idea of the contents of the collection.

The university says that

“More than 75 document boxes of materials will be opened, revealing for the first time the identities of nearly 100 now-deceased sources and the information they disclosed.

The materials consist of interviews, memos of phone conversations, story drafts, notes, research documents, correspondence and marginalia created by the reporters while covering Watergate for The Washington Post and researching for the book and movie versions of “All the President’s Men.”

There are also far lengthier interviews with sources who had been reserved and defensive before Nixon left office, but later opened up to the reporters for the their book “The Final Days.”

The identity of the reporter’s famed “Deep Throat” source will remain a secret, as he is still alive.