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…

This weekend, Boston College recesses for Fall Break, and on Monday, everyone will enjoy a public holiday. While the university officially observes Columbus Day, many community members prefer to honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day, in recognition of the First Peoples who…

Each year O’Neill Library employs currently enrolled library science students at Simmons University to staff the reference desk Monday through Thursday evenings. All of them are on the cusp of embarking on careers in librarianship of one form or another.…

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,…

The Educational Resource Center (ERC) is the K-12 curriculum and practice library on campus, located in the Lynch School, and open to all, with an education collection designed for in-classroom use. With Earth Day around the corner this week (check…