February 10-14, 2025 #LoveData25 Join the Columbia Libraries for a week of data workshops! From ICPSR: The 2025 theme is “Whose Data Is It, Anyway?” Take a minute to think about who owns data compared to who uses data. Different groups – like researchers, the government, companies, or organizations – may collect data. They could own […]
Columbia Libraries: Journal Publishing Program Annual Report
One of the benefits that Digital Scholarship provides to our journal partners is annual reports. These reports provide statistics for partners that span the most recent fiscal year and help to identify trends over time. In earlier days, these reports were compiled in a manual and unstructured way, and shared with partners as PDF documents. […]
Open Access Week 2024: Final Report
Prepared by Gary Hausman, Esther Jackson, and Melanie Wacker Introduction Open Access Week took place October 21–27, 2024 with the continuation of last year’s theme, “Community over Commercialization.” In alignment with the intent of International Open Access Week 2024 the Columbia Libraries events prioritized approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the […]
Archiving the Epistolæ project
Press release by Sarai Vega and Esther Jackson Columbia University Libraries is excited to announce the archiving of the Epistolæ project, a remarkable collection of medieval Latin letters to and from women, now accessible through the Columbia University Academic Commons. Professor Joan M. Ferrante, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, along […]
Paper Pledge for the Planet
What is the Paper Pledge? The Paper Pledge is a global collaboration of hundreds of institutions working together to make climate change literature openly available. There are over 3500 climate change articles that have been published in the last 5 years that are closed access, but can be made openly available. On 22 October 2024, […]
Music Technology Workshops – Fall 2024
The Music & Arts Library in collaboration with Libraries Digital Scholarship offers a series of music technology workshops for Fall 2024, designed and conducted by Sound Art MFA graduate student (and current Libraries Digital Music Intern) Ása Ólafsdóttir. Most workshops are in-person; check the individual session listings for details. All workshops unless otherwise indicated will […]
Open Access Week at the Columbia Libraries
We are excited for Open Access Week 2024! This year our OA Week planning team included Libraries staff from Columbia, Barnard, and Teachers College. October 21–27, 2024 International Open Access Week 2024 will continue the call to put “Community over Commercialization” and prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public […]
Peer Review Week at the Columbia Libraries
We are excited for Peer Review Week 2024! September 23–27, 2024 Peer Review Week serves as a crucial platform, bringing together researchers, publishers, editors, and other stakeholders within the scholarly community to foster discussions, exchange insights, and acknowledge the significant contributions made to the peer review process. […]
The Nelson Memo: Preparing for Updated Federal Public Access Policies
by Kathryn Pope, Esther Jackson, and Jeremiah Mercurio On August 25, 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), under the direction of former Columbia faculty member and divisional dean Alondra Nelson, released new guidelines on increased, expansive public access to the results of federally funded research. The guidelines, or the “Nelson […]
Technical Reports in the Repository: Syncing a unique grey literature collection in multiple Columbia University Library systems
Read about our project to add the LDEO Technical Reports to Academic Commons and other distribution systems. […]