Library Publishing Directory

Boston College Libraries

O'Neill Library

Academic Library · United States

Scholarly Communications

https://ejournals.bc.edu/

Gabriel Feldstein, Digital Publishing and Outreach Specialist
Phone: 617-552-1652
Email: gabe.feldstein@bc.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
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
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
    Our program is constantly growing with both faculty and undergraduate managed journals while also supporting our long-standing publications like Dianoia, Elements, Lumen et Vita, and the International Journal of African Higher Education
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: English; Spanish

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 2
  • Individual people: 2
  • Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Journals


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 9
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 5
  • Campus-based student-created: 4
  • Peer-reviewed: 9
  • Currently inactive or archived: 6

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations (journal)
  • International Journal of African Higher Education (journal)
  • Lumen et Vita (journal)
  • Dianoia (journal)
  • Medical Humanities Journal of Boston College (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Theology
  • Education
  • Philosophy
  • Literature
  • Medical humanities

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  • Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g., local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • data
  • images
  • text
Software & Platforms:
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Additional Services:
  • assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
  • Indexing services (e.g.
  • analytics
  • cataloging
  • data visualization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • peer review management
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • PKP Open Preservation Network

Policies

  • Copyright and License Information: https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/blsr/copyrightnotice
  • Open Access Policy: https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/blsr/oapolicy

    • Adopted Policies:
    We use a standard Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 License unless a journal has a more specific request, as well as standard Open Access language. Our journals do not charge Article Processing Fees or APCs.