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Fostering Innovation in Scholarly Communication

University of Kansas adopts open-access policy: The faculty senate approved the policy in April. Peter Suber discusses the details on Open Access News.

Federal Research Public Access Act introduced in U.S. Senate on June 25: The bill requires that government agencies with extramural research budgets of $100 million or more make research papers resulting from this funding available to the public no later than six months after they are published in a peer-reviewed journal. Read why the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) supports FRPAA.

Research Without Borders: Video of all events from the 2008-09 Research Without Borders speaker series is up on iTunes U and the Past Events page.

Advancements in digital technology offer today's scholars and researchers countless new ways to create, share, and archive their work. Besides granting new knowledge unprecedented reach and impact, these developments have sparked a reevaluation and debate around the conventions of scholarly exchange.

The Scholarly Communication Program at Columbia University aims to facilitate discussion of and innovative approaches to sharing scholarly work, as well as offer practical information about the opportunities and challenges presented by scholarship and research in a time of technological change. The program's overarching goal is to encourage the Columbia community's active participation in creating a system that best serves the needs—and maximizes the impact—of scholarship and research at Columbia.