Columbia University Libraries

Academic Library · United States

• https://scholcomm.columbia.edu/publishing
• publishing@library.columbia.edu

Digital Scholarship Unit

https://scholcomm.columbia.edu/publishing

Anne Cong-Huyen, Director of Digital Scholarship
Email: anne.c@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): 1.5
• Individual people: 5
• Students: Graduate student(s), Undergraduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Author fees, Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers or proceedings
• Datasets
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Expansive digital publications
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Multimedia
• Newsletters
• Open educational resources

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• 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: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g., local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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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.

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