Open AccessUsing Open Access Institutional Repositories to Save the Student Symposium during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Allison Symulevich,
Mark Hamilton
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
information technology and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2163-5226
pISSN - 0730-9295
DOI - 10.6017/ital.v41i1.14175
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , work (physics) , host (biology) , commons , higher education , political science , best practice , public relations , institutional research , world wide web , sociology , library science , computer science , engineering , medicine , mechanical engineering , ecology , disease , pathology , virology , outbreak , law , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities around the world were forced to close or move to online instruction. Many institutions host yearly student research symposiums. This article describes how two universities used their institutional repositories to adapt their student research symposiums to virtual events in a matter of weeks. Both universities use the bepress Digital Commons platform for their institutional repositories. Even though the two universities’ symposium strategies differed, some commonalities emerged, particularly with regard to learning the best practices to highlight student work and support their universities’ efforts to host research symposiums virtually.