Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce the release of the Jesuit Online Bibliography a re-envisioned, open access and fully searchable database of bibliographic records for scholarship in Jesuit Studies produced in the 21st century. Now available in a beta version, it contains more than 15,000 records of books, book chapters, journal articles, book reviews, dissertations, conference papers, and multimedia content. Records will be added on a continuous basis by an international team of project editors and voluntary contributors. This resource is designed for scholars, researchers, students, library professionals, publishers, and the public interested in the study of Jesuit history, spirituality, educational heritage, and pedagogy. The records in this database will also be aggregated in The Portal to Jesuit Studies, the open access resource for Jesuit research and scholarship released last year by Boston College. The Jesuit Online Bibliography was built using open source technology and features a Ruby on Rails framework with a Blacklight discovery interface, PostgreSQL, and Solr index. All of the code used for this database is available in the Libraries' GitHub repository.

This resource was developed by a project team at Boston College Libraries in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies (IAJS). The Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI) and Jesuitica Project at KU Leuven are institutional partners of the IAJS that share editorial oversight of the database and are working to bridge Jesuit research centers and archives with scholars and publishers. To learn more about the project or to become a contributor, visit jesuitonlinebibliography.bc.edu.

Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues, faculty, and students who may be interested in this resource. Questions or suggestions related to the bibliographic contents may be directed to the editors. Questions or suggestions related to the technical infrastructure of the resource may be directed to [log in to unmask].

Best,

Anna