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The Cost of Knowledge – Open Access Week at Boston College

by Gabriel FeldsteinPosted onOctober 9, 2026October 9, 2026
Six images are in a grid on a dark background, each with the open lock icon of Open Access superimposed: a satellite dish, a person taking someone's blood pressure, a fish, a person in a veil with a microphone, two hands holding a petri dish, and several people around a conference table, listening. The poster reads "International Open Access Weeek, October 19-25, 2026, #OAWeek, The Cost of Knowledge."

Every year for a week in October, this year October 19-23, libraries and scholars across the world celebrate Open Access, a method of publishing scholarly articles, books, and educational materials that grants users free access. While traditional publishers often charge…

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Building Boston College

by Margaret CohenPosted onSeptember 23, 2026September 28, 2026
Map excerpt of a city block with different colors for different land uses: pink and yellow for buildings, beige for streets, grey for sidewalks, and green for parks. Buildings are labeled with owner names. At the center a large building is labled "Boston Catholic College," which is next to Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.

Boston College will host the Inauguration of its 26th president, John T. Butler, S.J., this October.  In honor of this momentous occasion, the Boston College Libraries present Building Boston College, a special presidential tribute. There are concurrent display in the…

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The Confusing World of Popular Periodical Access

by Steve RungePosted onJanuary 28, 2026April 8, 2026
A person with classes and long dark wavy hair wearing a dark blazer stands reading a newspaper in a newsstand crowded with magazines and newspapers. The image is black and white.

I was helping a professor last week with a perennial problem: how to provide students access to content in popular periodicals like newspapers and magazines without confusing them with a dizzying array of library access points.

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Entering the Public Domain in 2026

by Gabriel FeldsteinPosted onJanuary 14, 2026January 14, 2026
An intense face, orange as if lit by fire or explosions, glares upward under a green helmet against a dark background

As the calendar turns over to another year, another set of copyrighted characters and works enters the public domain after serving the standard copyrighted term in the United States of 95 years.

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Generative AI: A Glossary

by Steve RungePosted onNovember 30, 2025February 20, 2026
A multicolored flowchart with red, green, and blue bands entering from the left, feed into 3 groupings of words labeled "key," "query," and "value". The words are: Data visualizations em power users to.

Understanding how Generative AI (GenAI) works can be challenging in an environment of hype-driven media representations, and a lack of understanding can lead to uncritical adoption of and trust in GenAI output. BC Libraries staff hope this glossary will help…

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