Scholarly Communications

An update on publishing, our institutional repository, and the development of new open source research tools.

OA Week this October

Open Access Week is October 23 -29th. Details are still being worked out, but expect to see library displays, blog content, and an on-campus event that week. Keep an eye…

Internet Archive case moves forward

The case in the Southern District of New York between the Internet Archive and a group of major publishers has finally wrapped up. Last March, the Internet Archive’s Controlled Digital…

Journal Impact Factor changes for 2023

Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports has made two major changes for the 2023 release. The first is that it has greatly expanded the number of journals receiving a Journal Impact Factor,…

MIT Direct to Open

In 2021, MIT Press established the Direct to Open (D2O) model as a sustainable framework that engages libraries as a way to circumvent the profit motive for academic publishing. As…

Dianoia Release Symposium

Dianoia recently published their 10th issue and on April 26th, held a release symposium. This event was a wonderful opportunity to hear directly from the contributing authors who came from…

Mass-Resignation in Response to “Greed” at Elsevier

“Elsevier preys on the academic community, claiming huge profits while adding little value to science.” Professor Chris Chambers makes his thoughts clear as one of the contingent of one of…

Standards Established for Peer-Review Terminology

In June of 2023, the National Information Standard’s Organization (NISO) published a set of standard terminology for peer-review. The standards cover a variety of topics mostly pertaining to how reviewers…

Open Access at Boston College Libraries

The graphic below show data from the nine-year period in which the Boston College Libraries have provided Open Access Publishing Funding to cover the costs of Article Processing Charges in Open Journals:

For more data and analytics on the Boston College Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund's Previous Awardees be sure to navigate to our LibGuide.

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