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):

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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