What's in your repository?

Abstract

Do community-facing resources in the digital repository reflect the work being done at the university? Can examining a microcosm such as the LGBTQ-related materials indicate how successful a university’s digital repository is in avoiding unconscious bias? Searching the repository’s collections, including ETDs (electronic theses and dissertations) and Faculty Research, indicates whether these authors used particular terms in their scholarship, when the terms were used, and how frequently the terms appear. Comparing frequency and publication dates within, rather than across, collections is more revealing. Terms not used or used more or less frequently in one collection or the other and elsewhere within the IR may also be significant.