T12: Using an Institutional Repository for Undergraduate Publishing and Learning
Session Description
Generously Sponsored By: Gibson Library Connections
The ARCA Institutional Repository project through ELN, and the interest in showcasing and promoting students’ endeavours to the wider community, presents an excellent opportunity for new and existing institutional repositories (IR) to include undergraduate work.
Making the IR the long term public access point for selected undergraduate work means librarians work collaboratively with faculty to modify project guidelines and learning outcomes, and gives the opportunity to offer active learning instruction to students on peer-review, open access publishing and digital literacy. The results are undergraduate works that are polished, accessible and suitable for the IR and that may provide benefits to student employment prospects; make faculty aware of the value of the IR; provide materials for student recruitment and promotion.
The presentation focuses on how BCIT and SFU libraries are making undergraduate work - such as undergraduate journals, oral history projects, honours theses and capstone projects - available in their IRs.
Speakers
Elizabeth Padilla, British Columbia Institute of Technology
Biography
Elizabeth Padilla is the Institutional Repository Coordinator and Liaison Librarian for Business at BCIT Library. She has a keen interest in information access. Before arriving at BCIT, Elizabeth enjoyed over 12 years working professionally in the software industry in Silicon Valley as an information architect, program manager and UI technologist.
Donald Taylor, Simon Fraser University Library
Biography
Donald Taylor is the Research Repository Coordinator and University Copyright Officer at Simon Fraser University. Although copyright takes up the majority of his time, he maintains a deep interest in Open Access and in the use of IRs as grey literature repositories.