April is certainly a time of celebration at Boston College – students begin to prepare for graduation and make plans for the summer, the promise of some warmth (usually) offers a welcome reprieve from the bitter cold, and of course…
The Medical Humanities Journal has already been publishing content by Boston College students since the student e-journal’s founding almost ten years ago. However, this year it is making use of the Open Journal Systems platform to create DOIs, establish preservation,…
What is the Public Domain? On January 1, 2023 copyrighted artifacts from 1927 entered the Public Domain. This means that online repositories such as Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and Google Books can make works fully available online without fear of financial…
What is Fuse? This fall, ejournals.bc.edu has started hosting a new Boston College student e-journal, Fuse, which aims to bring undergraduate science research to a wider audience. Fuse is intended to be a “collection of articles based on original laboratory…
As we navigate a rapidly changing world, access to high-quality, peer-reviewed content is vital for scholars, researchers, and anyone concerned with the world and culture around them. Here at Boston College Libraries, we publish seventeen open access peer-reviewed e-journals that…