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Supporting Open Access Through A Student-Driven Journal, Jennifer Raye, Olivia Macisaac, Sheel Patel, Anne Perez, Morgan Ragsdale, Spencer Lindgren Oct 2019

Supporting Open Access Through A Student-Driven Journal, Jennifer Raye, Olivia Macisaac, Sheel Patel, Anne Perez, Morgan Ragsdale, Spencer Lindgren

Scholarship and Professional Work

BU Well is Butler University's open-access, multimedia, student-driven healthcare journal. BU Well was founded in 2014 as the first open-access, multimedia healthcare review journal in the nation. BU Well is a two year course for Butler University Health Science students, with students researching and producing the written articles, along with a multimedia component. When submitting, authors work with students on the editorial team to co-create an infographic and video. Continuing with the student-run model, the editorial board consists of upper-level health science students. With 2019’s Volume 5, students introduced podcasting as a multimedia component option. Once published, BU Well is …