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 […]
New issues from The Columbia Law & the Arts and Columbia Journal of Tax Law and
May is a busy time for Law Journal editors! We are pleased to announce two new journal issues from two of our journal publishing program partners. The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts Each academic year, the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts publishes an Issue dedicated to the annual Symposium of the […]
Collaboration to support Columbia Researchers: The accelerated NIH Public Access Policy
In 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced that it was directing all federal research funders to update existing public access policies, or to create them if they had yet to do so. These policies would require immediate public access to research that resulted from federal funding, and the expectation was […]
Take Back the Internet: A book display & Wikipedia edit-a-thon
Take Back the Internet is a joint effort by staff in Butler Library, the Journalism Library, and Open Scholarship Services. As library workers and researchers, we spend more time than most searching the internet and evaluating the results. We reflect on changes within CLIO or Google Scholar. We analyze how market consolidation affects the cost […]
Publishers & Libraries: Hosting the third annual OA Switchboard NYC Summit
Participants in the OA Switchboard NYC Summit Columbia Libraries was thrilled to host the third annual OA Switchboard NYC Summit in March 2026. Collection Analysis Librarian Katherine Brooks, Head of Open Scholarship Esther Jackson and OA Switchboard Executive Director Yvonne Campfens welcomed colleagues from American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing, American Society for Microbiology (ASM) […]
Fair Use Week 2026
by Kathryn Pope and Esther Jackson Fair Use Week 2026 February 23–27 is Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, an “annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. It is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities presented by fair use and fair dealing, celebrate successful stories, and explain these doctrines.” Learn more […]
Where’s the data? Celebrating Love Data Week 2026
It’s time for everyone’s favorite February holiday. Of course, we are talking about Love Data Week (February 9-13), a program from ICPSR. Institutions from around the world are offering workshops, lectures, and more that center on this year’s theme of “Where’s the data?” Love Data Week events at Columbia Here at Columbia, we are offering […]
New to PubMed Central: Journal of Clinical Education in Physical Therapy
The editors of the Journal of Clinical Education in Physical Therapy (JCEPT) and the Columbia Libraries Open Scholarship Services Unit are pleased to announce that JCEPT has been accepted for archiving in PubMed Central (or PMC), the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) open access fulltext archive of biomedical and life sciences literature. This means that […]