Support for Open Access Infrastructure
One of the many ways that Columbia Libraries supports the increased accessibility of research and scholarship is by engaging in and financially supporting initiatives that create and manage scholarly infrastructure. These projects include repositories, publishers, indexes, and standards organizations. Learn about key initiatives supported by the Columbia Libraries below.
You can also learn more about the Open Access publishing agreements that Columbia Libraries provides to Columbia authors on the Open Access Publishing Agreements page.
Columbia Libraries subscribes to the Archive-IT web archiving service to archive websites in thematic areas corresponding to our existing collection strengths, websites produced by affiliates of Columbia, and websites from organizations or individuals whose papers or records are held in our physical archives.
Columbia Libraries is an institutional financially-supporting member of the arXiv repository, which offers open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
Columbia Libraries supports Bloomsbury Open Collections, which seeks to make collections of scholarly books open access immediately on publication at no cost to the author.
Columbia Libraries is a financially supporting member of CLOCKSS, which is an international collaboration of research libraries and academic publishers to preserve digital scholarly content. A long list of scholarly publishers preserve their journal and book content in the CLOCKSS archive.
Columbia Libraries is a financially supporting member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). COAR is an international association of individual repositories and repository networks that builds capacity, aligns policies and practices, and acts as a global voice for the repository community.
Columbia Libraries supports Crossref financially through direct membership and by using its open infrastructure to register DOIs for Journals Program journals. Crossref links research objects, entities, and actions, creating a lasting and reusable scholarly record.
Columbia Libraries supports financially DataCite through direct membership and by using its open infrastructure to register DOIs for Academic Commons and the Digital Libraries Collections. The Libraries also provides DataCite accounts and DOI prefixes to a number of units on campus. DataCite supports the creation and management of DOIs and metadata records, enhances research workflows with service integration, and enables the discovery and reuse of research outputs and resources.
Columbia Libraries is a financially supporting member of the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), a community-curated directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books.
Columbia Libraries is a financially supporting member of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Columbia Libraries is an institutional member of Dryad, a non-profit, open data platform that focuses on data publishing and preservation. Columbia Libraries pay a membership fee that allows Columbia researchers to use Dryad at no additional cost (within Dryad dataset size limits).
In partnership with the Center for Research Libraries and East View, Columbia Libraries has historically been a sponsor of Global Press Archive, which provides open access for hundreds of global newspapers as searchable online archives, covering a diverse range of languages and countries.
Columbia Libraries is a financially supporting member of the HathiTrust, an international community of research libraries committed to the long-term curation of and access to the cultural record.
Columbia Libraries is a financially supporting member of Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), an initiative dedicated to improving funding and resourcing for open technologies and systems supporting research and scholarship.
Columbia Libraries financially supports Knowledge Unlatched, which coordinates a coalition of libraries that share the costs of making books and journals available via open access.
Columbia Libraries is a financially supporting member of the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC). LPC is an independent, community-led membership association of academic and research libraries and library consortia engaged in scholarly publishing.
Columbia Libraries is a financially supporting member of LOCKSS, which is a program run by the Stanford Libraries, provides open-source technologies and services for secure digital preservation.
Columbia Libraries is a financially supporting member of the Media History Digital Library (MHDL). MHDL is a free online resource, featuring millions of pages of books and magazines from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.
Columbia Libraries is a financially supporting participating institution in MIT Press’ Direct to Open initiative, through which MIT Press publishes new open access scholarly monographs and edited collections.
Columbia Libraries is a dues-paying Library Standards Alliance Member of NISO, the National Information Standards Organization. NISO is a non-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). NISO identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards and recommended practices to manage information in today's continually changing digital environment.
Columbia Libraries is a financially supporting member of OA Switchboard, which is a community led initiative designed to simplify the sharing of information between stakeholders about open access publications throughout the whole publication journey.
Through a paid membership in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), Columbia Libraries supports OAPEN, which promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication.
Columbia Libraries’ financial support contributes to Open Library for the Humanities (OLH)’s ability to offer open access publishing to authors without payment of publication fees.
Columbia Libraries is a financially supporting direct member of ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), a global nonprofit with members including research organizations, publishers, and funders. ORCID allows researchers to create a free, unique, persistent ID that they can use to claim credit for their research.
Columbia Libraries is a financial supporter of Reveal Digital which develops Open Access primary source collections from under-represented 20th-century voices of dissent, crowdfunded by libraries.
Columbia Libraries is a financial supporter of ROR through our Crossref and DataCite memberships. ROR is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations.
Columbia Libraries is a financial supporter of SCOAP3. The program's mission is to convert peer-reviewed literature in particle physics to Open Access. SCOAP3 is a consortium of research institutions, funding agencies, libraries and library consortia.
Columbia Libraries is a financially supporting member of SAOA. Covering printed materials from the late-eighteenth and into the twenty-first century, the South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) collection is a rich and growing collection of digitized primary sources made freely available for use by scholars, students, and researchers from around the world.
Columbia Libraries is a full financially supporting member of SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), which is an advocacy organization made up of libraries and academic organizations that supports open systems for research and education.
Columbia Libraries is a financially supporting member of the TRAIL Project (Technical Report Archive & Image Library), which digitizes and provides open access to U.S. government agency technical reports.