Making Undergraduate Research Open Access in the Institutional Repository: Challenges and Benefits

Abstract

Publication of undergraduate research in an institutional repository can provide multiple benefits to students, but there are also a number of additional challenges with which repository managers are faced-- permission forms, parsing roles in student-faculty collaborations, and concerns over the sharing of data from as-yet-unpublished research, to name but a few. In this roundtable discussion, we hope to share our, at times, hard won lessons and benefit from the collective knowledge of our fellow librarians