Boston College
O'Neill Library
Digital Scholarship
2020 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 (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 70%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 70%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 4
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; databases; electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; newsletters; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.| 2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Campus-based Student-driven Journals | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Databases | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| ETDs | 141 | 108 | 33 | 0 |
| Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
| Journals for External Groups | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Monographs | 0 | |||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
| Technical/Research Reports | ||||
| Textbooks | ||||
| Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses | 24 | 21 | 0 |
2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.
OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- theology
- education
- literature
- philosophy
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate studentsOpeness to Partners: Open to working with any external partner
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
Additional Services:
- analytics
- author advisory – other
- data visualization
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- image services
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- outreach
- training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- HathiTrust
- In-house
- LOCKSS
- MetaArchive