The Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB) at Columbia Business School has become the first academic group within the University to contribute electronic versions of its publications to DigitalCommons@Columbia, the new University Libraries-sponsored “institutional repository” pilot program. The full back runs of three Center publication series --Working Papers, Occasional Papers and Event Reports-- are now available within DigitalCommons@Columbia, where they will be broadly available to scholars and researchers worldwide and where they will be permanently archived as part of the record of Columbia’s scholarly output. Future publications in these series will be deposited by CJEB staff directly into the DigitalCommons shortly after they are published....
“This valuable partnership between the Libraries and CJEB will help achieve the Center’s mission to promote knowledge and understanding of Japanese business and economics in an international context,” said Hugh Patrick, director of CJEB. “We are delighted to be part of such a significant digital enterprise in the scholarly community.”...
As part of its effort to begin collecting and archiving the University’s significant intellectual output, the Libraries will be expanding its institutional repository pilot program over the next year to incorporate electronic publications from other departments and academic groups....
“This effort is part of a new Libraries initiative to begin collecting, archiving and preserving the University’s scholarly and research output in electronic form,” said Stephen Paul Davis, Director of the Libraries Digital Program. “We believe our institutional repository program represents an important investment in Columbia’s overall ‘knowledge infrastructure,’ one that will enable us to better serve scholars’ needs now and in the future.” According to Davis, the initiative will be expanded over time to incorporate material from other departments, centers and academic groups.
Comment. Kudos to Columbia's CJEB. This is exactly what research centers and institutes need to do in order to maximize the visibility and usefulness of their research output and share it with everyone who can make use of it. I hope it inspires other centers at Columbia and elsewhere to follow suit --and then I hope it inspires Columbia itself and other universities to take the same step. Will Columbia be the seventh university to mandate OA to the research output of the institution?
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/29/2006 09:12:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
