Connecting Students to the Jacksonville University’s Institutional Repository - USETDA 2022.
Channel: USETDA
Date: 2022-09-12

Connecting Students to the Jacksonville University’s Institutional Repository. Poster presentation by Allison Crawford.

Abstract
This poster presentation will highlight the development of Jacksonville University’s Institutional Repository. Managed by the library, our repository is still in its early stages; however, it is growing. This discussion will include the process of finding the right hosting platform for our institution, the progress that we have made managing the repository and the future for the repository.

In terms of repository participation, the departments that have graduate studies at Jacksonville University vary in the formats in which they submit theses. Some are still submitting in physical bound copies; others are submitting in pdf and still others not submitting at all. The challenge has been bringing the non-submitting departments on board and transitioning the bound copy submissions to pdf.

Going forward I believe more promotion of the repository is needed among graduate faculty and students within our departments. Additionally our goal is to digitize the many years’ worth of bound theses that we have in our Special Collections/Archives.

In keeping with the conference theme, "Making Connections: Scholarly Communications in the Digital Age” this presentation will demonstrate our efforts to promote and increase participation in our institutional repository among our graduate degree programs at Jacksonville University.

USETDA 2022 Conference.  United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association.

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