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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?
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?
Institutional Repositories
Institutional Repositories
Institutional Repositories
Institutional Repositories
Institutional Repositories
Institutional Repositories
Institutional Repositories
Institutional Repositories
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.
Undergraduate Research
Undergraduate Research
Undergraduate Research
Visioning
Image from: visioningforfuture smgov.net