Scholarly Dissemination for Visiting Students

Student work has been a popular feature in the institutional repository at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The inclusion of their work in the repository provides the students with the opportunity to formally disseminate their research, some for the first time. One such collection are posters authored by visiting students who participate in the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP). The program provides opportunities for undergraduate students to work with researchers across campus. The library has been involved in the SURP program for many years, primarily through instruction on literature searching, citation managers, and scholarly dissemination. When the program was remote in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they turned to the library to host the posters in the repository, which included voice over narrated video. Since that time, the program has continued to require students to submit their posters to the repository, providing the students with experience in scholarly dissemination. This lightning talk will include descriptions of the program and library involvement in SURP, the history of poster submissions, and usage statistics