More than 250 authors at Utah State University published an Open Access (OA) article in 2016. Analysis of survey results and publication data from Scopus suggests that the following factors led authors to choose OA venues: ability to pay publishing charges, disciplinary colleagues' positive attitudes toward OA, and personal feelings such as altruism and desire to reach a wide audience. Tenure status was not an apparent factor. This article adds to the body of literature on author motivations and can inform library outreach and marketing efforts, the creation of new publishing models, and the conversation about the larger scholarly publishing landscape.
Librarians and museum curators are knowledge experts who can collaborate with faculty and serve as exemplary mentors to undergraduate researchers. This article discusses three exhibitions curated by undergraduates that resulted from classroom-based activities. The students engaged in original research to mount the exhibitions-an atypical form of dissemination for undergraduate research projects. One exhibition was housed in the campus art museum; another physical exhibition focused on manuscripts and early printed books from a library's special collections. A third digital exhibition is permanently hosted on the library's website. Each curating activity and exhibition is described, including the process and collaboration with colleagues in the library and art museum.w w w . c u r . o r g uarterly COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH 13 Professor Alexa Sand and a student work with an early book.
Establishing institutional repositories (IRs) and encouraging supportive faculty participation can be daunting. Gaining access to scholarly publications and other products that students produce, especially undergraduate researchers, can be an even more challenging task. Many IRs contain graduate theses and dissertations as well as undergraduate honors theses and the abstracts of work that students present at student research events or conferences. It is less common to find IRs whose compilers thoroughly collect
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