The Institute for Undergraduate Research at Dartmouth has an online database to house Senior theses: http://www.ugresearch.org/ . The site, which currently houses about 1,000 papers, was created in 2005 by two former Dartmouth students.
As undergraduate research becomes a larger focus in many institutions, sites such as this one could prove valuable for students to feel a larger stake in their work. Some libraries and individual institutions are creating online portfolios of local student work, but placement in a larger database open to other universities create opportunities for student theses to be viewed by a much larger audience. Sites centering around undergraduate research that integrate some social networking tools could open dialogue between students at different institutions with similar interests.
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