Law Library Support and Promotion of Faculty Scholarship.
BC Law Library staff support faculty scholarship through the provision of reference services and building and maintaining print and electronic resources for research.
In addition, the library staff promotes and publicizes faculty accomplishments in scholarship by building each faculty member's publications statement on his/her webpage. Law faculty scholarship is featured in an ongoing display in the Stuart House display cases. Notify Deena Frazier (tel. 617-552-4409) of new publications to insure that your latest scholarship is included on your webpage. Copies of print publications are welcomed for display purposes.
Electronic publishing initiatives available to BC law faculty include the following:
Berkeley Electronic Press (bePress) publishes electronic journals and provides the platform that supports the eScholarship initiative at Boston College to collect faculty publications. BC Law School participates in this digital commons project. In addition, the NELLCO Legal Scholarship repository is supported by a bePress platform (see below.)
ExpressO, another service from bePress, allows faculty to submit their article manuscripts electronically to over 450 law school reviews with a single file upload. Contact Deena Frazier (tel. 617-552-4409) for more information.
NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository is an online archive of scholarship emanating from member schools of the New England Law Library Consortium. BC Law School maintains a series within this repository to support our institutional goal of creating an online archive of current and past faculty scholarship.
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) comprises numerous cooperating institutions in a variety of subject areas. The Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) is an active and robuts community of academic institutions and faculty who collaborate to post and disseminate abstracts, full-text articles and working papers. Mike Cassidy, Academic Dean and Professor of Law, serves as the editor of BC's Legal Studies Research Paper Series. BC Law School's subscription to SSRN allows faculty to register to receive email alerts of newly posted papers from particular institutions and in designated subject areas. Contact Deena Frazier, Technical Editor of BC's Legal Studies Research Paper Series (tel. 617-552-4409) for more information.
Posting Your Scholarship Electronically. The Law Library's faculty services program includes assistance with preparing your scholarship materials such as articles, working papers, lectures and conference presentations for electronic distribution and in selecting the appropriate repository. All publications submitted for electronic distribution are deposited with both NELLCo and SSRN unless issues arise regarding permissions. Deena Frazier (tel. 617-552-4409) serves as the coordinator for collecting and posting faculty publications through the networks described above. Deena will guide you through this process; please contact her directly.
