• Library Prize for Undergraduate Research

  • Now accepting applications!

    The Library Prize for Undergraduate Research recognizes and honors excellence in undergraduate research at UCLA. If you are a current UCLA undergraduate student and can answer "yes" to the questions below, your paper or project may be just what the selection committee is looking for.

    • Did you or your team use UCLA Library collections for a research paper or project you completed for a course in the last twelve months?
    • Did your use of library collections and services help increase the scope, depth, and significance of what you learned?
    • Did your skills as a researcher grow because of your use of library collections?
    • Did your use of library collections inform and strengthen other types of research you performed?

  • All of the following are required in your application:

    • Your library use statement describing your research process: specifically, the methods and strategies you learned or developed to access the information you needed for your work. Please use this template.
    • A final or near-final version of the project. If the project is a paper, it must be written in 12 point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with 1 inch margins. Exceptions will be made for papers produced using LaTeX or other discipline-specific formats. If the project is in a format that cannot be submitted electronically, such as an architectural model, CD, or DVD, please include a detailed description of the project. If the project is on the Web, please submit the URL. Please email libraryprize@library.ucla.edu if you have any questions. 
    • A bibliography in a recognized style. Tips on the bibliography's format and contents are available online.
    • A letter of support from the UCLA instructor for whose class the research paper or project was completed. See below for details.

  • About the author(s)

    Please provide this information for every author on your project. You can add up to 6 individual authors on this form. For projects with more than 6 authors, please include this information (Name, UCLA email, UCLA student ID number) within your project file.

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    • About the project

    • Please either upload your project file or provide a link to the project online.

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    • About your faculty sponsor

    • Instructions for the faculty letter of support

      Applicants should ask the instructor of the UCLA course for whose class the research paper or project was completed to write a letter of support. The letter should address 1) how the student or group’s use of the UCLA Library or other resources contributed to an exceptional research paper or project 2) the content and quality of the paper, especially the appropriate and thorough use of research materials. This letter is essential for our judges to evaluate disciplinary projects. Instructors must either email the letter to libraryprize@library.ucla.edu by the deadline (April 1, 2019).

      Note: The selection committee will not solicit letters of support from instructors or send reminders. It is the applicant's responsibility to make sure that his or her application package is complete.

    • About the course for which this work was completed
    • For current and former student employees

      If you have ever been employed or are currently employed at UCLA, please complete the following section:

    • Copyright Information

      Rights for Authors

      Student authors retain copyright for all content created by them and submitted to the UCLA Library Undergraduate Research Prize. However, authors grant to The UCLA Library the right to make available such content, in any format, in perpetuity. Authors may reproduce, in other contexts, content to which they possess the copyright, although in any subsequent publications the UCLA Library Undergraduate Research Prize should be acknowledged as the original publisher. Student authors submitting a paper to the UCLA Library Undergraduate Research Prize automatically agree to confer a limited license to the UCLA Library as stated above.

      This license allows the UCLA Library to publish and make the research and/or reflective essay publicly available. In addition, authors agree to have their research and/or reflective essay published and preserved by UCescholarship (see http://escholarship.org/uc/ucla).

      Authors have a choice of:

      1. Dedicating the article to the public domain. This allows anyone to make any use of the article at any time, including commercial use. A good way to do this is to use the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication Web form; see http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain-2?lang=en. 
      2. Retaining some rights while allowing some use. For example, authors may decide to disallow commercial use without permission. Authors may also decide whether to allow users to make modifications (e.g. translations, adaptations) without permission. A good way to make these choices is to use a Creative Commons license. Go to http://creativecommons.org/license/. Choose and select license. Choose "generic" if you are in the U.S. and "text" for First Monday articles. Background information about Creative Commons licenses can be found at http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/. 
      3. Retaining full rights, including translation and reproduction rights. Authors may use the statement: © Author 2016 All Rights Reserved. 
      4. Authors may also choose to use their own wording to reserve copyright. If you choose to retain full copyright, please add your copyright statement to the end of your paper, project, or article.
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