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We Have Only Scratched the Surface: The Role of Student Research in Institutional Repositories
Creating sustainable community: The Proceedings of the ACRL 2015 Conference
  • Betty Rozum, Utah State University
  • Becky Thoms, Utah State University
  • Scott Bates, Utah State University
  • Danielle M. Barandiaran, Utah State University
Document Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
3-26-2015
Abstract

Institutional repositories (IRs) and other research archives have at their core the mission to disseminate the scholarship of their communities. At universities, this content is often expected to come primarily from faculty and professional researchers. Certainly, faculty are significant producers of scholarship, but students also make worthy contributions to this body of knowledge. Graduate students, at least, are generally recognized as creators of information, and in recent years, IRs have been successfully collecting theses and dissertations written by masters and doctoral students. However, another important and often overlooked group is undergraduate students.

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Rozum, B., Thoms, S. Bates, S. and Barandiaran, D. (2015). We Have Only Scratched the Surface: The Role of Student Research in Institutional Repositories in In Creating sustainable community: The Proceedings of the ACRL 2015 Conference (pp. 804–812). Portland, OR: Association of College and Research Libraries. Available at http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2015/Rozum_Thoms_Bates_Barandiaran.pdf