August 2024

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Scholarly Communications

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

New Addition to Ebook Collection

More and more across academia, students getting involved with scholarly publishing on their campuses. Whether this takes the form of contributing to research papers or authoring articles and submitting them…

What is “Inclusive Access” – and how is it different from Open Education Resources?

As publishers, librarians, faculty, and administrators continue to search for more equitable means of providing learning materials to their students, new methods and ideas have surfaced as ways of knocking…

InfraFinder – a new tool from Invest in Open Infrastructures

As more and more libraries and authors are seeking open source platforms and technologies for their publishing, the need for a systematic way to consider options arises. Invest in Open…

Undeclared – A New Open Access Publication

In a post sent in the 2023 Summer Newsletter entitled, “MIT Direct to Open” the Scholarly Communications team described the launch of a new initiative helping authors publish monographs and…

Controlled Digital Lending, Round 2

On June 28th, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York heard oral arguments in the Controlled Digital Lending case Hachette v. Internet Archive.The judges probed both sides to…

Fall 2024 Electronic Dissertation Workshops

Writing a dissertation takes a lot of work. Submitting a dissertation does not have to! The Libraries’ eTD@BC workshops for graduate students will prepare you to submit thesis or dissertation.…

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