Focusing on student research in the institutional repository

摘要

The goal of this project is to harness the considerable dissemination capacity that DigitalCommons@USU has to spread the word about USU student researchers' great work. An IR is a unique vehicle to promote an institution's faculty, staff, and students and the work they do. By adding more departments to the project, the library hopes to demonstrate to a broader audience the advantages of promoting student scholarship and faculty collaboration via the IR. Meanwhile, the authors are conducting research to evaluate students' and faculty members' perceptions of benefits from showcasing student scholarship in IRs. Current efforts to capture student research have immediate and tangible results for the students, and the authors look forward to documenting evidence of related benefits for faculty, departments, and institutions as a whole.