SPECIAL SESSION: The Henderson Repository: Your Portal to Global Impact Through OA Dissemination

What are you waiting for? Have you written research, research-based, educational documents (for students, CE courses, or patients), and/or other evidence-based practice materials that are not a good fit for traditional scholarly and scientific journals, but are otherwise based on sound principals? Do you want credit for allyour work and not just a few select published manuscripts? Lucky you! The Virginia Henderson Global Nursing e-Repository (the Henderson Repository) accepts the following types of documents and more: reports, white papers, faculty created learning objects, dissertations, theses, capstone projects, posters, presentation slides, best practice guidelines, quality improvement tools, surveys, measurements, patient education tools, unpublished manuscripts, certain published articles… The Henderson Repository has the capability to accept these materials as text-based documents, audio files, still images, and even videos!

Has your STTI chapter, region, or consortium hosted a research or evidence-based practice conference? Do you want to showcase those materials and highlight your chapter efforts while allowing presenters to retain copyright to their poster, oral presentation slides and handouts? Good news! The Henderson Repository has participation opportunities for individual nurses, collaborative works (must include a nurse as co-author) and national or international nursing organizations and nursing groups, including STTI chapters.

Let the Henderson Repository be the solution for all of these dissemination needs! The repository features a single-blind peer-review component for works submitted to any of the collections under the Independent Submissions community. All other submissions are faculty evaluated or assessed according to community standards prior to posting. Come to this session to learn more about this unique digital venue, a free resource provided by STTI. The purpose of this session is to inform nurses in all areas of the profession (nurse leaders, faulty members, researchers, clinicians, and nursing students) about the Henderson Repository’s mission, the participation options, and the benefits to submitting authors and groups.

Once populated with full-text items, it will become a global resource for nursing research and evidence-based practice materials.