While PhD dissertations are typically accessible many other terminal degree projects remain invisible and inaccessible to a greater audience. Over the past year and a half, librarians at Arizona State University collaborated with faculty and departmental administrators across a variety of fields to develop and create institutional repository collections that highlight and authoritatively share this type of student scholarship with schools, researchers, and future employers. This poster will present the benefits, challenges, and considerations required to successfully implement and manage these collections of applied final projects or capstone projects. Specifically, issues/challenges related to metadata consistency, faculty buy-in, and developing an ingest process, as well as benefits related to increased visibility and improved educational and employment opportunities will be discussed. This interactive presentation will also discuss lessons learned from the presenter’s experiences in context of how they can easily apply to benefit their respective institutions.
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- Developing Applied Projects Collections in an Institutional Repository: Challenges & Benefits
- Harp, Matthew (Author)
- Dyal, Samuel (Author)
- Pardon, Kevin (Author)
- Arizona State University. ASU Library (Contributor)
- Uniform Resource Identifier: http://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2017/2017/41/
- Poster session at the Digital Initiatives Symposium on February 5, 2017, San Diego, California.
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Harp, M., Dyal, S., & Pardon, K. (2017). Developing Applied Projects Collections in an Institutional Repository: Challenges & Benefits. Digital Initiatives Symposium 2017.