Presented at GaCOMO15 by Sandra Bandy, Debra Skinner, Eli Arnold, Kim Mears The Georgia Knowledge Repository (GKR), an initiative of GALILEO, is a central repository that contains academic and intellectual works produced by Georgia colleges and universities. Established in 2013 and comprised of over 100,000 item records, GKR increases the importance of open access scholarly communication and joins a growing number of academic digital repositories. Colleges and universities are developing research seminars, open access journals, and other scholarly initiatives on campus. Libraries who manage their institutional repository are collaborating with campus departments to preserve the scholarly works of these initiatives. A panel will discuss how librarians and faculty are increasing their repositories by supporting undergraduate scholarship. Attendees will see a variety of projects that libraries are undertaking and panelists will give an overview of effective methods to follow when starting new undergraduate research initiatives. Panelists will also discuss internal challenges and benefits faced when establishing and promoting these initiatives.

1. Growing GKR: Increasing the
Undergraduate Research
Component
Adventures in Libraries: The Quest for Success
GaCOMO –Athens, GA
October 7-9, 2015
Image source: Jamie Dobson, https://flic.kr/p/o5X4Ar, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

2. Increasing the Undergraduate
Research Component
GaCOMO’15 – Adventures in Libraries: The
Quest for Success, Athens, GA
Kim Mears, MLIS, AHIP
Scholarly Communications Librarian
Georgia Regents University
Presentation: Undergraduate Research at Georgia
Regents University: Research Seminars
Email: kmears@gru.edu
Speakers:
Eli Arnold, MLIS
Reference Librarian
Oglethorpe University
Presentation: OJUR: An Open-Access Journal for
Undergraduates
Email: earnold@oglethorpe.edu
Debra Skinner, MLIS
Coordinator of Cataloging & Metadata
Interim Department Head Collection & Resource
Services Department
Georgia Southern University
Presentation: Undergraduate Research in Digital
Commons
Email: dskinner@georgiasouthern.edu

3. Objective
• Increase repository by supporting undergraduate
scholarship
• Methods to follow when starting new undergraduate
research initiatives
• Internal challenges
• Benefits faced when establishing and promoting
these initiatives

4. Statewide and Consortial Repositories
• GALILEO Knowledge Repository (GKR)
– 2009 IMLS Grant
– Scholarly works and research information
• Annual reports
• Conference papers
• Electronic theses and dissertations
• Lecture series
• Newsletters
• Pre-prints/post-prints
• Research and technical reports

5. Why IRs are Important
• Showcase and preserve scholarly output and
historic documents
• Archive post-prints, preprints and extra materials
produced during the scholarly publishing process
• Support teaching and learning
• Provide curatorial stewardship for disorganized
digital materials scattered among department
servers, individual hard drives, and unstable
portable storage mechanism

6. http://www.gaknowledge.org/

8. Increasing the Undergraduate
Research Component
GaCOMO’15 – Adventures in Libraries: The
Quest for Success, Athens, GA
Kim Mears, MLIS, AHIP
Scholarly Communications Librarian
Georgia Regents University
Presentation: Undergraduate Research at Georgia
Regents University: Research Seminars
Email: kmears@gru.edu
Speakers:
Eli Arnold, MLIS
Reference Librarian
Oglethorpe University
Presentation: OJUR: An Open-Access Journal for
Undergraduates
Email: earnold@oglethorpe.edu
Debra Skinner, MLIS
Coordinator of Cataloging & Metadata
Interim Department Head Collection & Resource
Services Department
Georgia Southern University
Presentation: Undergraduate Research in Digital
Commons
Email: dskinner@georgiasouthern.edu

9. Thank you
GKR Coordinating Committee Governance Structure
Chair: Catherine Downey, Georgia Gwinnett College
Chair-Elect: Aajay Murphy, Kennesaw State University
Secretary: Marlee Givens, Georgia Tech

10. Undergraduate Research at Georgia
Regents University: Research Seminars

11. How can we
provide access
to the
recordings of
the brown bag
seminars?

12. Scholarly Commons
http://gru.openrepository.com/gru/

13. Setting up
the
Collection

14. Information Gathered
• Abstract
• Semester and Year
• URL of recording
• Subject Headings/Key Words
• Student Department
• PowerPoint Presentation

16. OJUR:
An Open-Access Journal
for Undergraduates
Eli Arnold
Reference Librarian
Oglethorpe University
Atlanta, Georgia
earnold@Oglethorpe.edu

19. TOP ARTICLE DOWNLOADS
Reversal of Gender in Ancient Egyptian Mythology: Discovering the Secrets of Androgyny 1854
Gender and Class Differences in 19th Century French Prostitution 1274
Inuit Myth in the Film “Brother Bear” 1191
Horror-Comedy: The Chaotic Spectrum and Cinematic Synthesis 916
The Wisdom of Athena 708
Threatening the Fabric of Our Society: Divorce in Modern Societies 663
Lifting the Veil of Violence: The October Crisis, 1970 603
Frost Witches: The Spark of the Bamberg Witch Craze 602
When Parties Swap Platforms: The Changing Racial Policies of Democrats and Republicans 486
In Search of the Self: Eastern Versus Western Perspectives 456
12,648
Total Downloads
All statistics for period: 01/04/2009-10/05/2015

20. :
Undergraduate Research in Digital Commons
Debra Skinner, Interim Department Head & Coordinator of Cataloging
and Metadata

21. Repository Services
Inclusion of
student research
is encouraged in
the Repository

22. Browse List
Repository Browse
List
Student Research
and Creative
Works
University
Honors Program

23. Student Research Links
Expanded menu
lists options for
locating student
research

24. Honor Program Page
University Honors
Program has
branded page

25. Honors Program Menu
Expanded menu
lists options for
Honors Program

26. Honors @ Georgia Southern
Repository hosts
Honors@Georgia
Southern – magazine
featuring research of
Honors Program

27. Honors @ Georgia Southern
Individual issues
can be downloaded.
Metrics are
provided on page.

28. Honors Program Videos
Video recordings of each
student describing his or
her research are housed
in Repository

29. Honors Video Recordings
Each video recording has metadata
page and video can be with embedded
metadata and uploaded

30. Capstone Project
All theses are uploaded to the
Repository as well as programs of
Honors Research Symposium

31. Students Upload Thesis

32. Thesis Submission Form
• Custom form
designed by faculty
and library
• Students add title
and personal
identification

33. Thesis Submission Form
Students Add
• Major
• Document release
option
(open/restricted)
• Embargo
• Faculty mentor

34. Thesis Submission Form
Students Assign
• Keywords
• Subjects
Enhance Google
retrieval

35. Thesis Submission Form
Students Upload
• Abstract
• Full text
• Additional files

36. Copyright Agreement

37. Administrative Review
• Faculty
administrator
reviews
• Sends for mentor
review
• Registers decisions
• Views revisions
• Posts

38. Benefits to Students
• Provide opportunities for student authors
• Share student research
• Showcase outstanding work
• Teach information literacy & writing skills as
integrated part of research process
• Promote digital scholarship
• Promote concern for quality in students since
reflects on institution and themselves
• Provide usage statistics for students

39. Comprehensive Usage Statistics

40. Individual Statistics
366 downloads
Plum Print

41. A Service to Faculty
• Offer as a service & provide as much
service as possible to faculty
• Do it for them
– Copyright
– Submission form
– Whatever your system allows or provides
• Ensure that faculty have review options
before publication

42. Working with Faculty
• Begin with projects well established and
approach faculty about Repository
publication
• Integrate with curriculum
• Successful projects market themselves
• Collaboration with faculty markets library

43. Working with Faculty
• Promote as service to assist rather than
something else to do
• Review institution website & seek
potential opportunities
• Watch announcements regarding events
on campus and follow-up on potential
opportunities

44. Conclusion
Undergraduate research can enhance the
Institutional Repository, provide services
desired by faculty, and provide new
opportunities and skills for undergraduate
students.

45. Contact
Debra Skinner
dskinner@georgiasouthern.edu
(912) 478-5025