Library Publishing Directory

2019

Columbia University

Columbia University Libraries

Digital Scholarship

2019 CONTACT:
Michelle Wilson, Digital Publishing Librarian
Phone: (212)-853-2353
Email: michelle.wilson@columbia.edu

Program Overview

Columbia University Libraries support the creation, discovery, and dissemination of quality open-access research in the form of journals 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
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 95%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 14.5
  • Paraprofessional staff:
  • Graduate students: 0.5
  • Undergraduates:
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Publishing Activities

All Library Publishing Activities:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 2
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 16
  • Journals Produced for External Groups: 2
  • Monographs: 2
  • Technical/Research Reports: 184
  • Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 13
  • Databases: 20
  • ETDs: 912
  • Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 8
Open Access Publishing:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 2
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 8
  • Journals Produced for External Groups: 2
Paid Publishing:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 1
Hybrid Publishing:
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 8

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Law
  • (Digital) Humanities
  • Interdisciplinary Studies
Top Publications:
  • Academic Commons (digital research repository)
  • Digital Dante (scholarly website)
  • Tremor and other Hyperkinetic Movements (journal)
  • Women Film Pioneers Project (database)

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students


Best publications to refer to our program: Modern Language Association

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • Fedora
  • OJS
  • WordPress
  • locally developed software
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3
  • AP Trust
  • Archive-It
Additional Services:
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • budget preparation
  • business model development
  • cataloging
  • contract/license preparation
  • data visualization
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • notification of A&I sources
  • open URL support
  • outreach
  • training
  • typesetting
Service Vendors: Charlesworth (Tyesetting, XML capture)

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
The library will continue to build an ethical and diverse publishing program, expanding on its list of journal titles and other digital publications and partnering 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.
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