The Music & Arts Library in collaboration with Libraries Digital Scholarship offers a series of music technology workshops for Spring 2025, designed and conducted by Sound Art MFA graduate students (and current Libraries Digital Music Interns) Ása Ólafsdóttir and Miles Scharff. Workshops are offered in a combination of in-person and remote formats; check the individual […]
Most-read journal partner articles: January 2025
Our journal partnerships program includes over thirty professional and student journals that cover a wide range of disciplines. All are free to read and most* are free for authors to publish in. Through this program the Columbia Libraries supports the creation and dissemination of quality, open-access research and scholarship. Our journal partnerships open new fields […]
Strategies for Publishing Success: Spring Workshop Series from Open Scholarship
image courtesy of fauxels Join the Open Scholarship team this spring semester for a series of workshops geared towards journal editorial board members and those interested in learning more about scholarly publishing. Transitioning your journal’s board: Template & workflow suggestions Register (zoom) Thursday, March 13, 2025 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Introduction to Scholarly Publishing […]
Love Data Week 2025
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 […]