Please submit PDF versions of the presentations in the Manuscript File field, abstracts, and upload your data or other supplemental materials separately.
UCR students of all levels and all disciplines are encouraged to submit!
Your presentations will be evaluated based on four criteria and will go through two rounds of selection: clarity of the project, accessibility of artifacts, visual appeal, presentation delivery during the event.
You are encouraged to submit your draft presentations in PDFs along with your abstracts and any supplemental materials.
First Round – Selection to Present
The first round of selection will evaluate: clarity of the project, accessibility of artifacts, visual appeal.
Presentations that meet the standards in these areas will be invited to present in person at the event.
Second Round – Selection for Publication
A panel of judges, consisting of librarians and faculty, will conduct the evaluations during the event. After the event, presentations that receive no less than 3 points in each criterion, including presentation delivery, will be invited to submit their final versions and will have the option to publish them on eScholarship.
Review the Rubric HERE.
Browse previous volumes to see examples of published presentations.
About
The Open Research and Creative Activities (ORCA) Forum is a quarterly event hosted by the UCR Library's Research Services Department at the Orbach Science Library. It celebrates outstanding student projects from across all disciplines and academic levels at UCR, with a special focus on interdisciplinary work and open scholarship. Each quarter, finalists will be invited to present their research or creative work. Presentations should highlight how project artifacts—such as code, documentation, data, or multimedia—have been, or will be, shared through an open access repository.
Focus and Scope
OCRA Forum celebrates outstanding student projects from across all disciplines and academic levels at UCR, with a special focus on interdisciplinary work and open scholarship. The proceedings volume includes PDFs of the finalist presentations and other supplemental materials.
Submission Checklist
Please submit PDF versions of the presentations in the Manuscript File field, abstracts, and upload your data or other supplemental materials separately.
UCR students of all levels and all disciplines are encouraged to submit!
Your presentations will be evaluated based on four criteria and will go through two rounds of selection: clarity of the project, accessibility of artifacts, visual appeal, presentation delivery during the event.
You are encouraged to submit your draft presentations in PDFs along with your abstracts and any supplemental materials.
First Round – Selection to Present
The first round of selection will evaluate: clarity of the project, accessibility of artifacts, visual appeal.
Presentations that meet the standards in these areas will be invited to present in person at the event.
Second Round – Selection for Publication
A panel of judges, consisting of librarians and faculty, will conduct the evaluations during the event. After the event, presentations that receive no less than 3 points in each criterion, including presentation delivery, will be invited to submit their final versions and will have the option to publish them on eScholarship.
Review the Rubric HERE.
Browse previous volumes to see examples of published presentations.
Copyright Notice
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The Author warrants as follows:
(a) that the Author has the full power and authority to make this agreement;
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(c) that no right in the Work has in any way been sold, mortgaged, or otherwise disposed of, and that the Work is free from all liens and claims.
The Author understands that once the Work is deposited in eScholarship, a full bibliographic citation to the Work will remain visible in
perpetuity, even if the Work is updated or removed.
For authors who are not employees of the University of California:
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losses, claims, damages, awards, penalties, or injuries incurred, including any reasonable attorney's fees that arise from any breach of warranty or for any claim by any third party of an alleged infringement of copyright or any other intellectual property rights arising from the Depositor’s submission of materials with the California Digital Library or of the use by the University of California or other users of such materials.
Peer Review
The OCRA Forum submission and review process operates under an open peer review policy, in which the identities of both authors and reviewers are known to one another to promote transparency and constructive scholarly dialogue.
Licences
The following licences are allowed:
- CC BY 4.0
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Publication Cycle
The OCRA Forum publishes its proceedings on a quarterly basis,