We have seen how Generative AI can be a useful tool. However, it comes with several ethical and legal concerns that need to be considered when using it. Questions of copyright and creator’s rights, issues of bias in the model,…
Open Access Week returns this year, from October 23rd to 29th. This year’s theme is “Community over Commercialization.” It has been hard to escape the fact that while Open Access (OA) has benefited many scholars by making their work available…
OA Week: October 24 – October 30 Open Access Week is a yearly celebration of the value of Open Access publishing to scholarship in science and the arts. This year, Boston College Libraries is proud to announce that Jessica Silbey,…
When was the last time you made a copy of something? Maybe you photocopied a few pages out of a book for a class, or used a picture you found online in a presentation. Maybe you’ve seen some intimidating warnings…
Boston College has entered into a “Read and Publish” agreement with Cambridge University Press. That sounds great, but what does it mean? The “Read” part of the agreement is library access to the entire Cambridge University Press Full Journals Package.…