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The Discoverability of Award-Winning Undergraduate Research in History: Implications for Academic Libraries
Libraries
  • Jody C Fagan, James Madison University
  • Malia Willey, James Madison University
Publication Date
4-18-2018
Document Type
Article
Abstract

Making scholarly information visible to web search engines is an ongoing challenge, and undergraduate research is no exception. Using a sample of award-winning undergraduate history papers and journals, the authors searched Google, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, and the authors’ institutional repository to gauge the difficulty of locating these works. Given that many of these works were not easily found, results suggest that libraries and their institutions could be doing more to increase the discoverability of undergraduate research. Based on the success stories observed in this study, we offer strategies to libraries and librarians for increasing the visibility of undergraduate student research.

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Citation Information
Jody C Fagan and Malia Willey. "The Discoverability of Award-Winning Undergraduate Research in History: Implications for Academic Libraries" (2018)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jodyfagan/102/