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, an initiative of the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) 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.