Boston College Libraries

O'Neill Library

Academic Library · United States

• https://ejournals.bc.edu/
• scholcom-ggroup@bc.edu

Boston College Scholarly Communications

https://ejournals.bc.edu/

Gabriel Feldstein, Digital Publishing and Outreach Specialist
Phone: 617-552-1652
Email: feldsteg@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
• 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): 1.5
• Individual people: 2
• Students: Graduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

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

Highlights

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): No

Technologies & Services

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Policies

Adopted Policies:
Copyright Language provided by PKP in their Copyright Statement sections

Additional Information

Last Year:
The library has begun working with groups of sciences students generally speaking - starting an undergraduate science journal, as well as starting inviting a longstanding medical humanities journal onto our e-platform. Both are hoping to publish their first articles on OJS shortly.

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