This fall, two workshop series offer researchers and new academic authors the chance to build practical skills around copyright, publishing, and AI. Authors Alliance and UC Berkeley Library’s Office of Scholarly Communication and Information Policy are collaborating on a four-part webinar series for new academic authors, addressing topics from dissertation copyright to the legal dimensions […]
Northeast Carpentries Qualitative Data Workshop Series
Qualitative data encompasses nearly every form of research material, including (but not limited to) interview and focus group recordings and transcripts, field notes, historical documents, images and video, media content, and open-ended survey responses. Throughout October, live online workshops held on Wednesday afternoons will provide participants with the opportunity to explore the foundational concepts and […]
Peer Review Week 2026 with Columbia Libraries
Peer Review Week (PRW) 2026 runs September 14–18, and this year’s theme is “Peer Review Capacity: Volume, Speed, and Quality.” The theme was chosen by a global community poll, and it points at a problem a lot of authors and reviewers will recognize: submissions keep climbing, turnaround expectations keep tightening, and the reviewer pool hasn’t […]
Take Back the Internet: A Report
Take Back the Internet is a joint effort by staff in Butler Library, the Journalism Library, and Open Scholarship Services. We have been happy to see our book display in Butler 214 picked clean of the texts we delighted in curating for our community members. As we take down this book display to make way […]
New Issue from Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL (SALT)
A new issue from one of our journal publishing program partners. Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL (SALT) is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 26, Issue 1. The issue begins with two literature reviews. Jessica Coombs Brantigan’s “Socializing Language, Behavior, and Emotion in Parent–Child Interaction: A Review of Literature” examines how parents socialize […]
Columbia Libraries Publishing Program Cumulative Report, July 2025-June 2026
We are pleased to present an excerpted version of our journal partners cumulative report for the past fiscal year, July 2025-June 2026, below. Executive Summary During the reporting period, the Columbia Libraries Publishing Program published 273 new articles across 22 journals. These journals collectively received 14,548 all-time citations from external scholarly works. Articles Published by Journal (July […]
Foundations for Research Computing: 2025–2026 Year in Review
Foundations for Research Computing, the training program for the Shared Research Computing Policy Advisory Committee (SRCPAC), is a collaboration between Columbia Libraries, CUIT, and the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research. Our goal is to connect researchers, future researchers, and those who support them across Columbia University with informal opportunities to build research […]
Education, Value-system and Global (Dis)orders: A new journal issue from Current Issues in Comparative Education
Education, Value-system and Global (Dis)orders is the newest issue from Current Issues in Comparative Education, a Columbia Libraries Journal. The following has been excerpted and lightly edited from the issue’s Editorial Introduction by Camille Fabo. This special issue responds to an escalation of perceived turbulence in the global order and explores how education reflects these […]
Revolution Gone Wrong: Announcing ‘Shoe Leather’ Season 7
This season, the Shoe Leather podcast is going to 1970 Greenwich Village. A townhouse suddenly explodes and authorities find out that it’s ground zero for the operations of the Weather Underground: a radical group of young revolutionaries who use violence to “bring the war home.” Three members are killed in the explosion, two others escape. […]
No-Fee Open Access Publishing
By: Kathryn Pope, Esther Jackson, Katherine Brooks Did you know that there are numerous strategies that you can use to avoid paying article processing charges (APCs) when publishing open access (OA)? Open Access Publishing Agreements from the Columbia Libraries You can use the Journal Search Tool (JST) to see if we have an agreement for […]