Curriculum to Commons: Student Scholarship and Institutional Repositories

Thad Cochran Center 218

While the primary goals of institutional repositories are often seen as preserving and promoting faculty scholarship, many institutions are using their IRs to encourage student success. At Western Carolina University, librarians are using their IR to highlight graduate student capstone projects and to support undergraduate research. This session will encourage attendees to think outside the box and to find uses for their IRs that are unique to their organizations. The session will also highlight the benefits of supporting student scholarship through IR initiatives from the perspective of a student editor of an undergraduate journal that is published through an IR.