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1 Publishing Undergraduate Research Electronically Dennis DeTurck Richard Griscom University of Pennsylvania ©Copyright Dennis DeTurck and Richard Griscom, 2007. This work is the intellectual property of the authors. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for noncommercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the authors. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the authors.

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3 Penn’s Four Undergraduate Schools The College School of Engineering and Applied Science School of Nursing Wharton School

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8 Traditional reports of research

9 Visual art

10 Emily F. Buzzell, “Mortality of US Troups in the Iraq War, 2003- 2006” (excerpt) Multimedia presentation of research

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14 Moving from print to electronic Make a longer-lasting impact Support the full scope of undergraduate research (not just text-based) Inspire existing students; lure prospective students Provide mentoring opportunities

15 History of Collaboration between the College and Library

16 Weigle Information Commons

17 College Technology Center

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20 Vitale Digital Media Lab

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22 Academic Consulting Services

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25 June 2005: Dean DeTurck meets with public service librarians

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27 http://repository.upenn.edu/curej

28 Selection and Nomination Who would select research projects? Involving all faculty would be impractical Smaller group of undergraduate program chairs would be more manageable Faculty member forwards a suggestion to program chair, who submits the formal recommendation Faculty members and program chair act as an editorial board

29 Project Recommendation Site

30 Program chair submits recommendation

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32 Student notified via email

33 Author Agreement

34 Author deposits research

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36 Number of submissions not as high as expected: Not all students have acted on nominations

37 Administrative Review

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39 Student notified of publication

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42 A Few Sample Papers

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49 Use of CUREJ Articles 3,036 documents uploaded into the repository since August 2004 Of these, 71 are CUREJ documents (about 2.3%) The 71 CUREJ documents generated 10% of the total downloads September 2007: 11,492 downloads for deposited documents; 1,015 for CUREJ Each paper downloaded an average of 11 times per day

50 “Suds and Selfhood” Downloaded 3,243 times since published in April 2006 Average 191 downloads each month Over 7 times each day for the past year

51 All-time Top 10 papers in ScholarlyCommons@Penn 1.The Impact of Unpaid Movie Downloading on Box Office Sales (Wharton Research Scholars Journal) 2.Mortality of American Troops in Iraq (Population Studies Center) 3.The Promise and Perils of Credit Derivatives (Law School) 4.An Overview of Sigma-Delta Converters: How a 1-bit ADC achieves more than 16-bit resolution (Electrical & Systems Engineering) 5.CUREJ Suds and Selfhood: Marketing the Modern Woman in the 1920 ’ s, 1930 ’ s and 1940 ’ s 6.Reconfiguring Property in Three Dimensions (Law School) 7.The American Model Penal Code: A Brief Overview (Law School) 8.CUREJ Silent No Longer: Voices of the 1967 Newark Race Riots 9.CUREJ The Color of Industry: Frank Stella, Donald Judd, and Andy Warhol 10.CUREJ Vicious Geography: The Spatial Organization of Prostitution in Twentieth Century Philadelphia

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