Columbia University

Columbia University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

Digital Scholarship, Columbia University Libraries

https://scholcomm.columbia.edu/publishing

Jeremiah Mercurio, Interim Director, Digital Scholarship; Head, Humanities & History
Email: publishing@library.columbia.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Columbia University Libraries support the creation, discovery, and dissemination of quality open access research in the form of journals, podcasts, working papers, and dynamic digital scholarship projects. We seek collaborations with Columbia-affiliated faculty and students who want to ask new questions, play at the borders of currently canonized fields, open new pathways of inquiry, explore innovative methods, and bring new and traditionally underrepresented voices into conversation.

Publishing activities began: 2007
Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
Open access focus: Central to mission
Portion of Open Access publications: All
Publishing Languages: English; Arabic; Tibetan; Chinese; Spanish; Portuguese

Program Organization

Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
Advisory/editorial board: No
Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 5
Students: Graduate student(s)
Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

Conference papers and proceedings
Datasets
Educational resources
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
Expansive digital publications
Grey literature
Journals
Multimedia
Newsletters
Posters

Journal Publishing:

Journals published: 35
Campus-based faculty-created: 10
Campus-based student-created: 25
Currently inactive or archived: 21

Highlights

Top Publications:

Women Film Pioneers Project (encyclopedia)
Digital Dante (multimedia digital humanities project)
Voices in Bioethics (journal)
Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development (journal)
Shoe Leather (podcast)

Disciplinary Specialties:

Law
Humanities
Education
Medicine

Partners

Internal partners: Campus departments or programs; Individual faculty; Graduate students; Undergraduate students
Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
Columbia University Press. The Libraries only recently acquired management responsibility for the press.
Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
Columbia University Press. The Libraries only recently acquired management responsibility for the press.
Program’s openness to working with external partners: Only work with internal partners
Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:

audio
concept maps or other visualizations
data
images
modeling
multimedia/interactive content
text
video

Software & Platforms:

Fedora
locally developed software
OJS
Omeka
WordPress

Additional Services:

author advisory - other
author advisory - copyright
analytics
audio/video streaming
budget preparation
business model development
cataloging
compiling indexes and/or TOCs
contract/license preparation
data visualization
dataset management
digitization
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
graphic design (print or web)
hosting of supplemental content
ISSN registry
marketing
metadata
open URL support
outreach
training
typesetting

Digital Preservation Strategy:

Amazon S3
Archive-It
In-house

Additional Information

Future Plans:
The library will sustain its current publishing program while we seek to fill staff vacancies. As and when possible, the library will resume its efforts to build an ethical and diverse publishing program, expanding its list of journal and podcast partnerships and engaging with new disciplines within our community. The digital scholarship team is also committed to providing educational resources on topics like ethics in publishing, copyright, and authors rights as well as opportunities to develop editorial, technology, and project-management skills for student and faculty partners who contribute to our scholarly publications.