Collection Descriptions/A-Z
Overview, highlights, and parameters (formats, languages, time periods,etc.,) for the Libraries' physical and digital collections, mostly by subject.

Collection Development
The research mission of library collections and how research materials are acquired.

Facts and Figures
Data about the recent growth of the BC Libraries’ collections and trends in publication costs.

Activities and Initiatives
Descriptions of current and recent activities in collection management and development.

Scholarly Communication News@BC 
A blog devoted to items about developments in scholarly communication at BC and in publishing and academe.

Gifts to the Library Collections
Procedures and contact information for donating the collections.

FEATURES

Over the past year, the Boston College Libraries worked with faculty in various disciplines to identify the ScienceDirect titles which were most critical to their needs. This effort paved the way for Boston College Libraries to step out of the Boston Library Consortium deal and negotiate individually with Elsevier, the ScienceDirect publishing house. A primary benefit of this move is that the Libraries have been freed from the non-cancellation policy imposed by Elsevier on Consortium partners. Starting January 1, 2008, the Boston College Libraries will subscribe directly to the titles most heavily used at Boston College and will provide individual article access for all other ScienceDirect journals. |  More »

The Boston College Libraries have joined a major digitization project involving the Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and the Open Content Alliance to build a freely accessible library of digital materials from all 19 BLC member institutions. The BLC is the first large-scale consortium to embark on such a self-funded digitization project with the Open Content Alliance. The initial content of BC's collections being digitized includes books about the Jesuit order.