About

The BU Libraries’ Digital Ventures provides digitization and digital scholarship services that support the global reach of scholarship produced at BU and open BU’s special collections to the world. Through scholarly publishing support, archival resources, digitization, and digital project consultation, Digital Ventures enhances faculty and student research and learning, facilitates the dissemination and preservation of their scholarship, and fosters greater engagement with BU’s distinctive collections.

Digital Ventures makes both collections and digitization tools more accessible to the BU community and supports all BU scholars in publishing and sharing work with the global community. In a state-of-the-art digitization lab, Digital Ventures librarians and expert staff collaborate with students, researchers, and faculty across disciplines and provide guidance for the development of new digital projects and digital scholarship initiatives. Its thoughtful digitization of special collections and its responsive support services are designed to increase the representation of all persons and the diversity of voices present in the BU Libraries’ collections.

Digital Ventures is a transformative program that enables BU Libraries to meet and anticipate the ever-evolving needs of a leading research institution in the digital age, and supports the University’s academic, community, and research goals as outlined in the BU2030 Strategic Plan.