Boston College Libraries Newsletter

VOLUME 11 NUMBER 2

FALL 2009

Faculty on OA

The views of James Gips, Carroll School of Management, on open access to scholarly works.

Effectiveness of OA in disseminating Clare O’Connor’s (Biology) work to a wide audience.

The Business Law Department, Carroll School of Management lauds BC Libraries' eScholarship@BC.

Tom Wall on digitization initiatives in Burns Library.

Faculty Publication Highlights
Interviews with authors of newly published works.

Faculty Research Support
Resources and procedures to support the research process.

Staff Activities
Conferences, new staff, accomplishments.

.	open access special issue October 19-23 marks international Open Access (OA) Week. OA encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of knowledge and society. This issue of the Library Newsletter celebrates OA, focusing in particular on OA activities at Boston College.
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	An OA Journal Supported by BC Libraries Alec Peck, Lynch School, writes about the OA journal Teaching Exceptional Children Plus (TECPlus) of which he’s editor.
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	RePEc: Research Papers in Economics Kit Baum, Economics Dept., discusses RePEc, the largest database of bibliographic information related to economics and related disciplines.
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	Copyright and Open Access Managing one's copyright appropriately is key to providing open access to scholarly works.
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	Federal Research Public Access Act If the FRPAA bill passes, it will be a major advance for the cause of open access.
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	Open Access to Government Documents Sarah Hogan discusses the great variety of government information that is freely available.
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	OA to Theses & Dissertations What issues should graduate students ponder before deciding about OA to their thesis/dissertation?
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	The OPEN Comprehensive Digital Library In an age in which we rely on the Internet to meet our information needs, it seems possible to recapture the Alexandrian ideal.