Boston College
Boston College University Libraries
Scholarly Communications and ResearchUnited States
Primary Contact:
Jane Morris
Head Librarian, Scholarly Communications and Research
617 552-4481
Program Overview
The Boston College University Libraries’ publishing program showcases and preserves Boston College’s scholarly output in digital form and makes it freely accessible globally. The institutional repository, eScholarship@BC, is a publishing platform for student theses and juried work and for faculty scholarship. Open access journals provide faculty, student groups, and academic centers with a platform and services for production and publication of high-quality scholarship. The Libraries’ publishing program supports the social justice mission of the University and promotes the goals of the University Libraries by providing access to scholarly resources wherever they are needed.
Year publishing activities began: 2006
Organization: services are distributed across library units/departments
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (3.5)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2016:
Library publications in 2016: campus-based faculty-driven journals (1); campus-based student-driven journals (4); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (4); monographs (1); faculty conference papers and proceedings (2); newsletters (1); ETDs (156); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (30)
Number of open access titles: journals 12; monographs (5)
Number of paid titles: journals (); monographs ()
Number of hybrid titles: journals (); monographs ()
Media formats: text; images; video; data
Disciplinary specialties: Theology; Education
Top publications: Information Technology and Libraries; Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations; Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America; Levantine Review
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 25
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners: Catholic Theological Society of America; ALA Library and Information Technology Association; Council of Centers on Christian-Jewish Relations; Seminar on Jesuit Spirituality
Publishing platform(s): OJS; Islandora
Digital preservation strategy: HathiTrust; LOCKSS; MetaArchive
Additional services: marketing; outreach; training; analytics; cataloging; metadata; ISSN registry; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; open URL support; dataset management; contract/license preparation; author copyright advisory; digitization; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: We plan to increase outreach efforts to capture more research data and scholarly publications. We are considering an additional data repository option. We are working to provide more services to those who publish open access journals with our program.View All Entries