Presented at Open Repositories 2018, Bozeman, MT. Abstract: Open access outreach at colleges and universities tends to focus on faculty. Student work captured in repositories is generally theses and dissertations, deposited by rote as a last step before graduation. This leaves a large student population and a large body of their work under focused-on and underserved. This presentation suggests that educating students about scholarly sharing practices and capturing student work beyond ETDs from the very beginning of their careers not only preserves valuable scholarship otherwise at risk of becoming inaccessible, but begins to build openness into research practices and grow a sustainable open ecosystem. Many students will go onto graduate school and enter academia, becoming the next generation of authors who are primed to advocate for and take advantage of opportunities to openly share their work. The presentation will discuss benefits of adding student work to institutional repositories; small-scale case studies of gathering and sharing student work beyond ETDs; lessons learned; and on-going challenges. After attending this session, participants will have a stronger understanding of some of the considerations of including student work in repositories and be able to apply the discussed case studies as inspiration for outreach, education, and collection-building at their own institution.

1. Starting young: How the inclusion of
student scholarship in repositories
benefits students and helps to build
advocates for openness
Andrea Schuler, Digital Collections Librarian
Tisch Library, Tufts University
June 6, 2018

2. Hypothesis
Educating students about opportunities to
make their scholarship open and having them
take the steps to do so from the very beginning
of their career can begin to build openness into
research practices.

3. A 2013 analysis of 283 U.S. repositories using the bepress or
DSpsace platforms found that 71% included ETDs while only
38% included other student research such as posters,
presentations, or papers¹
Types of student scholarship in IRs (33 responses)²
1 Barandiaran, Danielle, Betty Rozum, and Becky Thoms. 2014. “Focusing on student research in the institutional repository: DigitalCommons@USU.”
College & Research Libraries News 75, no. 10 (November): 546-549. doi: https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.75.10.9209.
2 Hertenstein, Elizabeth. 2014. “Student Scholarship in Institutional Repositories.” Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 2, no. 3.
doi:10.7710/2162-3309.1135.

4. Benefits
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5. BENEFITS: to the students
Attaches real-world importance to course assignments
Allows students to point to their work online, and include it
applications, portfolios, CVs, etc.
Highlights the fact that not all information is free
Allows students to see their place in the scholarly ecosystem
Introduces concepts of open access, copyright, and licensing in
a real-world situation

6. BENEFITS: to the scholarly
ecosystem
Makes repositories more vital
Captures work that’s at risk of becoming inaccessible

7. “…shifting the primary purpose of the IR from green open access
to providing persistent and reliable access to the full range and
diversity of scholarly output of a research institution can mean a
vibrant, well used, and well understood system.
-Kennison, Rebecca, Sarah L. Shreeves & Stevan Harnad. 2013. “Point &
Counterpoint The Purpose of Institutional Repositories: Green OA or Beyond?”.
Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 1 iss. 4: eP1105. dOI:
http://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1105.

8. BENEFITS: to the scholarly
ecosystem
Makes repositories more vital
Introduces new voices
Captures work that’s at risk of becoming inaccessible

9. “New forms of scholarly and research conversations
provide more avenues in which a wide variety of
individuals may have a voice in the conversation.
-ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
Scholarship as Conversation frame

10. BENEFITS: to the scholarly
ecosystem
While we can’t change publishers, we have access to
future faculty & researchers
Makes repositories more vital
Builds a community of scholars who want to share their work
and understand their rights
Introduces new voices
Captures work that’s at risk of becoming inaccessible

11. Criteria
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12. Guiding
principles
Does
including the
scholarship
inform & add
to the
educational
experience?
Could someone
use it in the
future?
Does it
represent a
unique form
of scholarship
or a unique
pedagogical
approach?
Has it been vetted by
the professor, or
another body, in some
way?
Does it focus
on an under-
represented,
timely, or a
very “Tufts-y”
topic /
population?
Can the repository
support the work type? Is
it a reasonable number of
files?
Does it
transform
information &
create new
access?
Do we have a
relationship with the
class to facilitate the
process?

13. Examples
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14. Challenges

15. CHALLENGES & CONCERNS
○ What do you collect?
○ How do you find the work being done on campus?
○ Can your repository host the work?
○ Do students understand the implications of
sharing their work?
○ What are the copyright and licensing
considerations?
○ How to achieve follow-through?
○ Is this a random representation of student work?
○ Is the repository being “diluted”?

16. THANK YOU!
Any questions, or stories of similar work
or unmet needs at your institution?
andrea.schuler@tufts.eduPhoto by author
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