Boston College
O'Neill Library
Digital Scholarship
2019 CONTACT:Sarah Melton, Head, Digital Scholarship
Phone: 617-552-3210
Email: sarah.melton@bc.edu
Program Overview
The Boston College Libraries’ publishing program showcases and preserves Boston College’s scholarly output in digital form and makes it freely accessible globally.
Publishing Activities Began: 2006
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 25%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 4 - Growing
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 25%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 4.5
- Paraprofessional staff:
- Graduate students:
- Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
- Non-library Campus Budget: %
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: %
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 2
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 6
- Journals Produced for External Groups: 4
- Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 1
- ETDs: 195
- Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 20
- Newsletters: 1
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- Theology
- Education
- Literature
- Philosophy
Top Publications:
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsTechnologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- modeling
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- Dataverse
- Islandora
- OJS
- WordPress
- Omeka
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- HathiTrust
- In-house
- LOCKSS
- MetaArchive
Additional Services:
- analytics
- author advisory – copyright
- data visualization
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- image services
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- outreach
- training