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Melissa Cardenas-Dow, Armacost Library Outreach LibrarianThursday, December 6, 2012
Making Student Excellence Visible
Exploring an Open-Access Digital Repository for Undergraduate
Research
Open Access
What, why Institutional Repositories
What, why CUR and undergraduate research at
UofR Vision for the future
INTRODUCTION: LET’S TALK ABOUT…
Starting a conversation
3 main features:• Free• Unrestricted• Online
Open Access: What is it?
Open Access: What is it?
Services + Digital
Content + Tech
From: The Lone Wolf Librarian’s Bloghttp://lonewolflibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/2009-ala-presentations-on-collecting-for-digital-repositories-07-20-09
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Institutional Repositories: What is it?
Increasing number of IRs and records created
From Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
Institutional Repositories: Why?
The library is the intellectual heart of the university.
An IR embodies this heart in the digital age.
From Census of Institutional Repositories in the United States: MIRACLE Project Research Findings (2007)
Institutional Repositories: Why the
library?
An inquiry or investigation conducted by an undergraduate student that makes an original intellectual or creative contribution to the discipline.
Undergraduate Research
Undergraduate Research: Why?
– Enhances learning.– Increases retention.– Increases enrollment in graduate
education.– Improves career preparation.– Develops critical thinking, problem solving,
intellectual independence (= information literacy).
– Develops understanding of research methods.
– Promotes innovation-oriented culture.
Visioning
Image from: visioningforfuture smgov.net