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Location
Cook 206Z/Room B
Presentation Type
Full Concurrent Session
Start Date
24-4-2026 8:30 AM
Description
As attention turns to promoting student research at universities, institutional repositories have begun to play increasingly more important roles in the publishing of student posters. As parts of an expansive actor network that engages human and nonhuman actors in socio-technical processes, engagement frameworks are vital to promoting student research, which results in greater visibility, enhanced reputation, and benefits to accreditation. When successful, such engagement frameworks effectively involve students, faculty, academic departments, libraries, and the communication infrastructure to promote these resources.
The University of Toledo Digital Repository (UTDR) features student scholarship in several academic units and across the disciplines at the University of Toledo. Over the years, student research added to the UTDR has included theses, research papers, posters, and various forms of collaborative research involving faculty. Aside from the viewpoint of scholarship, IRs are seen as tools for student learning. A recent survey was conducted through the University of Toledo Libraries to seek responses from IR managers at R1 institutions in the United States and UToledo faculty. Only a small number of IR managers' responses indicate that IRs are assessed for student learning (about open access and publishing research data in an IR as part of a practicum or internship report) after some training and many faculty had not been aware of the IR's potential to contribute to student learning, but some faculty had indicated that IRs could be used to teach students about digital literacy, open access publishing, and searching digital archives. As the university recently attained the Carnegie Classification of R1, the UTDR's role is likely to expand as a platform to showcase student research from the undergraduate to doctoral levels.
This presentation will address the role of the engagement framework, actor network, survey results, and the extent to which student research was featured in the UTDR.
Student Scholarship and Engagement Frameworks Using the University of Toledo Digital Repository as a Platform for Student Research
Cook 206Z/Room B
As attention turns to promoting student research at universities, institutional repositories have begun to play increasingly more important roles in the publishing of student posters. As parts of an expansive actor network that engages human and nonhuman actors in socio-technical processes, engagement frameworks are vital to promoting student research, which results in greater visibility, enhanced reputation, and benefits to accreditation. When successful, such engagement frameworks effectively involve students, faculty, academic departments, libraries, and the communication infrastructure to promote these resources.
The University of Toledo Digital Repository (UTDR) features student scholarship in several academic units and across the disciplines at the University of Toledo. Over the years, student research added to the UTDR has included theses, research papers, posters, and various forms of collaborative research involving faculty. Aside from the viewpoint of scholarship, IRs are seen as tools for student learning. A recent survey was conducted through the University of Toledo Libraries to seek responses from IR managers at R1 institutions in the United States and UToledo faculty. Only a small number of IR managers' responses indicate that IRs are assessed for student learning (about open access and publishing research data in an IR as part of a practicum or internship report) after some training and many faculty had not been aware of the IR's potential to contribute to student learning, but some faculty had indicated that IRs could be used to teach students about digital literacy, open access publishing, and searching digital archives. As the university recently attained the Carnegie Classification of R1, the UTDR's role is likely to expand as a platform to showcase student research from the undergraduate to doctoral levels.
This presentation will address the role of the engagement framework, actor network, survey results, and the extent to which student research was featured in the UTDR.