ON DEMAND WEBINAR
Duration: 22 minutes​

How does your university empower students to become content creators and knowledge builders? Through a strategic focus, Pepperdine transformed student engagement, research dissemination and institutional success by strategically integrating its institutional repository to support students at every stage of their academic journey through initiatives like research-intensive courses, symposia and electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).

Discover how their approach fosters a creative culture and how their repository enables the dissemination of student work in contexts where traditional academic publication may not be possible. You’ll learn how Pepperdine:

• Transforms students into knowledge creators with initiatives like the *Global Tides* journal and student-led projects such as podcasts.  
• Simplifies research with its institutional repository platform, Digital Commons, simplifies research events like the Seaver Symposium by streamlining abstract collection, presentation management and archiving.  
• Empowers faculty to track readership, share impact metrics and promote open access through Pepperdine’s library and research office. 

SPEAKERS

Bailey Berry
Librarian for Digital Publishing, Curation, and Conversion
Pepperdine University
 

Katy Carr
Associate Provost for Research
Pepperdine University