Bowdoin College
AC-11: Open Access to Research

Bowdoin Digital Commons is an institutional repository administered by the Bowdoin College Library. It provides a place to collect, manage, and provide open access to the digitally published scholarship of Bowdoin faculty and students, special collections holdings, and archival records.

While there is not a specific fund to cover costs of publishing open access, Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin have made an agreement with Cambridge University Press to support Open Access publishing. Bowdoin faculty can publish articles Open Access, at no cost, in gold and hybrid journals (at present, more than 370 journals are covered by the agreement). Additionally, the Faculty Resource Committee solicits requests three times per year from faculty for funding research, including publication costs. Resources to pay "open access fees" is one of the eligible funding areas made available by the committee.

On the Bowdoin Digital Commons vendor platform, the library hosts Dissidences. This journal is sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and the Latin American Studies Program at Bowdoin College and is concerned with the problems of literary and cultural theory and the study of the Spanish and Latin American literatures and cultures of all periods. The journal emphatically encourages the submission of essays conceived at the crossroads of critical inquiry and theoretical discussion, and it has a pluralistic policy regarding the perspectives to be explored in those essays. Articles are published immediately after they are approved according to our policies and following our submission guidelines.