Boston College Libraries
O'Neill Library
Digital Scholarship
Gabriel Feldstein, Digital Publishing and Outreach SpecialistPhone: 617-552-1652
Email: gabe.feldstein@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
- Languages published: English
- Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
- Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 3 - Established
- Stage comments:
- Open access focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
- Program advisory/editorial board: No
- Peer reviewed journals: 75%
- Professional staff: 4
Funding sources for publishing activities:
- Library operating budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, student; datasets; electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.| 2021 | Open access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference papers and proceedings, faculty | ||||
| Conference papers and proceedings, student | 137 | 137 | ||
| Databases | ||||
| Datasets | 1 | 1 | ||
| Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules) | ||||
| Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) | 140 | 140 | ||
| Journals, campus-based faculty-created | 8 | 8 | ||
| Journals, campus-based student-created | 9 | 9 | ||
| Journals, contracted by external groups | 1 | 1 | ||
| Journals, inactive back issues | ||||
| Monographs | ||||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Technical/research reports | ||||
| Undergraduate capstones/honors theses | 25 | 25 |
2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. 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 offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.
Highlights
Top publications:
- Information Technology and Libraries (journal)
- International Journal of African Higher Education (journal)
- Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations (journal)
- Journal of Marketing and Communication in Higher Education (journal)
- Dianoia (journal)
Disciplinary specialties:
- theology
- education
- literature
- philosophy
Partners
Internal partners: campus departments or programsOpenness to working with external 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
- OJS
- Omeka
- WordPress
Additional services:
- analytics
- data visualization
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- peer review management
Digital preservation strategy:
- PKP Preservation Network