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. […]
Open Access Week 2023 – Community over Commercialization
What is Open Access Week? SPARC defines open access as: “the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. “Community over Commercialization” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 23-29). This theme encourages a candid conversation about which approaches to […]
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 […]
Open Access Week 2022 – Open for Climate Justice
What is Open Access Week? SPARC defines open access as: “the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. “Open for Climate Justice” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 24-30). Climate Justice is an explicit acknowledgement that the climate […]
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. […]
Union Seminary Quarterly Review & Academic Commons
Thanks to Victoria Horrocks, Caro Bratnober, Matthew Baker, and the students at the Burke Library who assisted with this project. The Digital Scholarship unit is pleased to announce that the archive of Union Seminary Quarterly Review (USQR) is now openly available in Academic Commons (AC). “USQR was founded in 1939 as a platform for inspired […]
Open Access Week 2021 – It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity
What is Open Access Week? SPARC defines open access as: “the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. This year’s theme intentionally aligns with the recently released UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, of which Open Access is a crucial component. Circulated in draft form […]