Created in 1975, the University of North Texas Archives houses university records of enduring value and documents the development of North Central Texas. The Archive's physical collections include historical manuscripts, photographs, and oral histories, as well as a variety of records from UNT's administrative and academic offices. In addition, the Archives serves as a depository for the microfilmed records of Cooke, Denton, Montague, and Wise Counties in Texas. Access to information in the Archives is governed by federal law, the Texas Public Information Act, and contractual agreement with donors.

Library facilities at the University of North Texas function as the nerve center for teaching and academic research. In addition to a major collection of electronic journals, books and databases, five campus facilities house just under six million cataloged holdings, including books, periodicals, maps, documents, microforms, audiovisual materials, music scores, full-text journals and books. A branch library is located at the University of North Texas Dallas Campus.

The UNT Libraries Rare Book and Texana Collections house and provide access to more than 20,000 rare and unusual items including scrolls, books, posters, maps, artwork, artifacts, games, photographs, Texana, and more. The staff of the Rare Book Room does preservation and conservation work and digitizes rare items to make them freely available to the world via the Internet.

The University of North Texas Press was founded in 1987 and published its first book in 1989. Though it is the newest university press in North Texas, it has quickly become a leading press with the most titles in print (more than 300) and published (15 to 18 each year). The UNT Press is a fully accredited member of the Association of American University Presses. Its books are distributed and marketed nationally and internationally through the Texas A&M University Press Consortium.