2021 Library Publishing Directory

Columbia University

Digital Scholarship

Michelle Wilson, Digital Publishing Librarian
Email: publishing@library.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
  • Languages published: English, Arabic, Tibetan, Chinese
  • Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
  • Stage Comments:
  • Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
  • Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
  • Peer Reviewed Journals: 95%
  • Journals that assess article processing charges: 5%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 14
  • Graduate students: 1

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; databases; datasets; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

  2020 Open Access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty 15 15
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases
Datasets 83 83
Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules)
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) 1121 1121
Journals, campus-based faculty-created 7 7
Journals, campus-based student-created 16 16
Journals, contracted by external groups
Journals, inactive back-issues
Monographs
Newsletters
Technical/Research Reports 465 465
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses 13 13

2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.

OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Women Film Pioneers Project (encyclopedia)
  • Digital Dante (multimedia digital humanities project)
  • Edition 640 (interactive digital edition)
  • Voices in Bioethics (journal)
  • Public Books 101 (pocast)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • law
  • humanities
  • education
  • medicine

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs

Openness to working with external partners: Only work with internal partners

Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? no

Work with a university press? no

Administer a university press? no

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • concept maps or other visualizations
  • data
  • images
  • modeling
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
  • video
Softwares & Platforms:
  • Fedora
  • OJS
  • Omeka
  • Scalar
  • WordPress
  • locally developed software
Additional Services:
  • analytics
  • audio/video streaming
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • 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
  • notification of A&I sources
  • open URL support
  • outreach
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3
  • Archive-It
Service Vendors: Open Academia (typesetting, XML capture, and other journal production services)

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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