DigitalCommons@Cedarville 2020-2021 Annual Report

2020-2021 ANNUAL REORT 13 Additional Highlights of 2020-2021 Once again, DigitalCommons@Cedarville’s event structure was utilized to facilitate the Research and Scholarship Symposium . Students and faculty submitted their proposals through the Digital Commons, and the review process built into the system was used by the organizing committee to evaluate each proposal. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Symposium was held virtually this year. Major projects this year included the digitization of reel-to-reel audiotapes of Dr. James T. Jeremiah’s chapel addresses and their accompanying transcriptions, digitization of Public Relations office photographs from the 1950s-1970s, the addition of Higher Learning Commission documents from 2016 and 2020 and all earlier HLC reports, adding back content for The Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism (over 300 articles), and archiving the university’s COVID-19 pandemic response. There are now 12 academic programs archiving capstone projects in the Digital Commons. In conjunction with the Department of Communication’s Professional Writing and Information Design program, the Digital Commons launched a new interdisciplinary journal for undergraduate research by Cedarville students titled Channels: Where Disciplines Meet in the fall of 2016. We published one issue this academic year, the Fall 2020 issue. The 42 articles that have been published so far have been downloaded over 34,800 times. A new journal, Education Insights , was added this year, but has not yet published its first issue. Cedrus Press published one book this year, A Christian Guide to Body Stewardship, Diet, and Exercise by Dr. David Peterson, Dr. Jeremy Kimble, and Dr. Trent Rogers.