Art, Rights, and Repositories: Contextualizing Information Literacy with the Institutional Repository

Although the open access movement and institutional repositories (IRs) have become increasingly popular among faculty, those in the creative arts, where artistic output is not always connected to traditional notions of scholarship, have been slower to make use of IRs. This article describes a pilot project to deposit undergraduate Bachelor of Fine Arts students’ senior project “media packets” into a university’s IR as part of the information literacy curriculum. The initiative introduced students to the concepts of copyright and access as they relate to their own work. [This article is an expansion of a paper presented at the ARLIS/NA conference held in New York, New York, in February 2018.]