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Archiving Undergraduate Research: An Examination of an Institutional Repository’s Effect on a Sixty-Year Tradition
Undergraduate Research and the Academic Librarian
(2023)
Abstract
At Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU), engaging students in high-impact educational practices like undergraduate research and capstone projects has a long history in multiple disciplines. This chapter examines the library’s role in preserving this tradition as it relates to archiving two types of student works: honors projects and annual research conference submissions. Faculty and staff at The Ames Library use both the University Archives and the institutional repository Digital Commons @ IWU (DC@IWU) in managing these collections. Details in this chapter include insights into the partnerships for conducting this work, analysis of the academic divisions in each collection, methods of collecting non-text genres, and attitudes of departmental faculty and staff. The appendices contain different iterations of the licensing agreements used. The shift in established practices necessitated by the global COVID-19 pandemic, speculation about the impact it will have on future practices, and recommendations for the future conclude this work.
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring March 13, 2023
Editor
Hensley, Merinda Kaye, Hailley Fargo and Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Publisher
Association of College & Research Libraries
Citation Information
Miner, Meg. "Report on a Survey of IWU Faculty and Staff Attitudes about Archiving Honors and JWP Works." In Undergraduate Research and the Academic Librarian: Case Studies and Best Practices, Volume 2, edited by Merinda Kaye Hensley, et al., Association of College and Research Libraries, 2023, pp. 117-152.
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