It’s International Open Access Week, a time when the scholarly community comes together to promote and discuss Open Access (OA). In this spirit, I’m here to tell you about an innovative way that scholarly publishers are enabling fee-free OA article publishing! The Subscribe to Open (S2O) publishing model allows all authors – anywhere in the […]
No-Fee and Low-Fee Open Access Publishing
International Open Access Week is October 20-26 this year, and an evergreen topic is how to cover the costs of open access (OA) scholarly publishing. A well-known model for funding OA publishing is to ask authors to foot the bill via article processing charges (APCs), and though some well-funded authors may be able to pay […]
Getting ready for Open Access Week 2025
We are excited for Open Access Week 2025! October 21–27, 2025 International Open Access Week 2025 asks Who Owns Our Knowledge? This year’s theme highlights a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce. Watch this space for blog posts in […]
Climate Week 2025
It’s Climate Week NYC, and we’re thrilled to share some recently-published works from our Journal Publishing Partners and our Academic Commons Featured Partners. UCCRN Case Study Docking Station Series The CSDS is a searchable database designed to allow cross comparisons of city case studies for a broad range of social, biophysical, cultural, economic, and political […]
Peer Review Week spotlight: Library Freedom Journal
This Peer Review Week we are spotlighting the newly-launched Library Freedom Journal by sharing their Call for Papers (CFP): Library Freedom Project (LFP) is excited to announce the launch of Library Freedom Journal (LFJ). LFJ is the society journal published by LFP, an organization that is radically rethinking the library professional organization by creating a network of values-driven librarian-activists […]
Peer Review Week 2025 with Columbia Libraries
Peer Review Week 2025 includes a wide range of offerings from Columbia Libraries and the wider scholarly publishing community. Here are a few of our favorites: What is Peer Review Week? Peer Review Week (PRW) is a global celebration of the vital role peer review plays in ensuring the quality and integrity of research. This […]
Openwork publishes their second issue
Deal, Jordan. “The Magical Slickness of the Myth of Black Oil, Movement Suite.” Openwork, 2025, doi.org/10.52214/ow.v2i1.12701. We’re excited to announce the release of the second issue of openwork Journal, a peer-reviewed publication at Columbia’s Computer Music Center that publishes research into experimental music, art and scholarship. Interdisciplinary in scope, the journal promotes new modes of […]
New journal issues from Columbia Libraries journal partners!
Summer is a busy time for Editorial Boards, and the summer of 2025 was no exception. We’re pleased to share the following new issues published this summer: Columbia Libraries supports the creation, discovery, and dissemination of open-access research by providing technical publishing support and covering hosting and related costs for over 30 scholarly journals. We […]
Announcing library partner journals newly-indexed in the DOAJ!
We’re thrilled to announce that Current Issues in Comparative Education and the The Columbia University Journal of Global Health have been accepted for inclusion in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The DOAJ is the preeminent index for open access journals. From their website: DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse […]
Current Issues in Comparative Education – Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict: Lessons in Education (The Special Issue 2025)
Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE) is an international online, open-access journal inviting diverse opinions of academics, practitioners, and graduate students. One of Columbia Libraries’ partner journals, CICE is dedicated to serving as a platform for debate and discussion of contemporary educational matters worldwide. The Special Issue 2025 – Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict: Lessons […]