Archiving the Epistolæ project

Press release by Sarai Vega and Esther Jackson Columbia University Libraries is excited to announce the archiving of the Epistolæ project, a remarkable collection of medieval Latin letters to and from women, now accessible through the Columbia University Academic Commons.  Professor Joan M. Ferrante, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, along […]

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Paper Pledge for the Planet

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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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The Covid Information Commons & Columbia University Libraries – using translation & transcription to increase accessibility to NSF-funded research

by Lauren Close, Lylybell Teran, and Esther Jackson, with editorial support from Florence Hudson, Macy Moujabber, Isabella Graham-Martinez, and Jeremiah Mercurio With thanks to Lara Azar, Elia Bregman, Brian Buckley, Cora Lee Cole, Victoria Horrocks, Saanya Subasinghe, Rhyley Vaughan, and Kathryn Pope.   As our scholarly communication ecosystem becomes increasingly reliant on digital media, it is […]

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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 […]

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