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Library Publishing Directory

2019

Boston College

O'Neill Library

Digital Scholarship

  • https://libguides.bc.edu/openaccess/bcjournals
  • digschol-ggroup@bc.edu
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):
  • 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 students


Technologies & 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

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