The Scholarly Communication Program (SCP) is an initiative of the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, which is part of Columbia University Libraries/Information Services. The SCP encourages the Columbia community's active participation in creating scholarly communication systems that best serve the needs, and maximize the impact, of scholarship and research at Columbia.
The SCP hosts events and maintains a Web site to educate the Columbia community about changes taking place within the scholarly communication system. SCP staff members administrate the Columbia Open Access Publication Fund, which offers reimbursement to Columbia community members for article-processing fees charged by some open access journals. The SCP Web site is also the home for information about open-access policies at Columbia University.
Columbia University Librarian and Vice President for Information Services James Neal gives an overview of scholarly communication.
Advisory Group
Members of the SCP's advisory group help set program priorities by contributing their expertise on research library collections and services, scholarly publishing, and copyright. They are:
- Jeff Carroll, Assistant Director for Collection Development
- Kenneth Crews, Director, Copyright Advisory Office
- Rebecca Kennison, Director, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship
- Konstantina Matsoukas, Head of Reference and Education Coordinator, Health Sciences Library
- Danianne Mizzy, Librarian, Engineering Library
- Damon Jaggars, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services
