Boston College Digital Scholarship

News and Events from Boston College Libraries' Digital Scholarship Group.

[Boston College Digital Scholarship @BCDigSchol]

Congratulations to Boston College 2023 grads!

🦅🎉🦅🎉🦅🎉🦅

[@CamOpenAccess @CamOpenAccess]

We’re delighted to announce that the University of Cambridge has a new Self-Archiving Policy, which takes effect from 1 April 2023. The policy gives researchers a route to make the accepted version of their papers open access without embargo. https://t.co/NjiyfRxxTX

[Dr Danny Kingsley (she/her) @dannykay68]

QUESTION: I don't know if this is a stupid one. Does LLM in the form of ChatGPT use information in research papers that are behind a paywall?
If yes, what is the technology going on there to provide access?
If no, is this a huge argument for OA?

[Boston College Digital Scholarship @BCDigSchol]

Apply now to our Fellowship Opportunity - the library is seeking a student to help work developing data visualizations and marketing materials for our Open Access events and E-Journal platform!

For more information and to apply - check out the link:
https://t.co/LJQhyWDttp

[Boston College Digital Scholarship @BCDigSchol]

At the beginning of 1977, 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘦, Boston College's first minority student newsletter, published its first issue!

For historical Boston College newspapers, check out https://t.co/kwy1UtABbf

[Boston College Digital Scholarship @BCDigSchol]

February 23rd is Digital Learning Day! At our Digital Studio you can work with Mapping with GIS, Adobe suites, Data Visualizations, Podcast recording - and more. And be sure to check out our E-Journal collection covering a variety of disciplines!

https://t.co/agP6wb644y

[Boston College Digital Scholarship @BCDigSchol]

100 years ago today, this issue of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 @bcheights contains "The Ice Review," a report on the hockey team with some lovely descriptions! Go Eagles!

For our entire collection of digitized newspapers going back through the 1800s, go to https://t.co/kwy1UtA3lH.

[Boston College Digital Scholarship @BCDigSchol]

MIT invites submissions for participation in a one-day DH symposium of Boston-area scholars, teachers, researchers, librarians, and the like.
@BCEnglishDept @BCHistoryDept
https://t.co/sWiLc8qv0m

[Peter Suber (@[email protected]) @petersuber]

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (@WHOSTP ) just released an #FAQ on its August memo ("Nelson memo") asking federal funding agencies to adopt or strengthen their #openaccess policies.
https://t.co/4M5gsnOazh

#OAintheUSA #OSTP

[Open Access Tracking Project @[email protected] @oatp]

DOAB officially launches its new service to further build trust in peer review and open access academic book publishing | Directory of Open Access Books https://t.co/4eix4LUvzG

[Boston College Digital Scholarship @BCDigSchol]

As #OAWeek2022 comes to a close, check out our resources on starting a new Open Access E-Journal here at Boston College, and consider open access repositories, like the Directory of Open Access Journals @DOAJplus to find more accessible, open scholarship!

https://t.co/cSNO4fQ6gi

[Boston College Digital Scholarship @BCDigSchol]

@JCBCneuro Thanks for pointing that out - you are right, we have combined those two and the visualization should be a lot more accurate now!

[Boston College Digital Scholarship @BCDigSchol]

If you are a Boston College author interested in publishing your work Open Access, the library has an OA Publishing Fund to help cover the cost of publishing fees!

The table below shows how funds have been spent and awarded in the past:

https://t.co/ctRSYjyqeG

#OAWeek22

[Boston College Digital Scholarship @BCDigSchol]

For #OAWeek22 the digital display on the third floor of @ONeillLibrary is showing a series of data visualizations regarding our E-Journal readership and OA Fund Publications:

[Boston College Digital Scholarship @BCDigSchol]

This year, our student journals were downloaded in over 70 countries all over the world - the most read article for the past 12 months came from the multi-disciplinary 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 @bc_elements

https://t.co/GPmcIqYAxk

[Boston College Digital Scholarship @BCDigSchol]

Boston College Libraries publish a variety of student E-Journals - the newest, 𝘍𝘶𝘴𝘦, has published its first few opinion pieces. Find out more about 𝘍𝘶𝘴𝘦 and the rest of our publishing program:

https://t.co/BimSViiQDX

[SPARC @SPARC_NA]

Happy International Open Access Week!

OA Week is off to a great start with advocates across the world taking action to advance "Open for Climate Justice." You can follow the conversation at #OAWeek and explore a selection of activities for the week at https://t.co/MKseovBJmE

[Boston College Digital Scholarship @BCDigSchol]

It's #OpenAccess week! Curious about OA publishing or other materials? Check out our LibGuide on OA in the link below and join us tomorrow at 5pm in Stokes S195 as we welcome Jessica Silbey, who will be our #OAWeek2022 speaker:

https://t.co/POGq1Jix8E

[Boston College Digital Scholarship @BCDigSchol]

Open Access Week starts on Monday! Sharing your data using Boston College Dataverse makes it open & accessible. Learn more: https://t.co/tbv6fZtkjL

[Boston College Digital Scholarship @BCDigSchol]

Join us on October 25th at 5p in welcoming Jessica Silbey for our Open Access Week Lecture! She will be discussing her book 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴: 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘈𝘨𝘦.