Academic Commons

The open-access repository for the Columbia Community

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Academic Commons provides open, persistent access to the scholarship produced by researchers at Columbia University, Barnard College, Jewish Theological Seminary, Teachers College, and Union Theological Seminary. The mission of Academic Commons is to collect and preserve the digital outputs of research and scholarship produced at Columbia and its affiliate institutions and make them available to a global audience.

Why Share Your Work on Academic Commons?

Open

EQUITABLE ACCESS

You want colleagues in institutions and countries that don’t have access to expensive journals to be able to find and read your work.

PUBLIC INTEREST

Your research is of potential public interest and you want to make sure it can be read outside the academy.

PRESERVATION

You want to make sure your work will continue to be discovered and accessed for years to come.

REUSABILITY

You want to make your educational materials, research, or data available for reuse by other scholars. 

SCOPE

You want to paint a more complete picture of your scholarly activity by sharing presentations, white papers, and other research outputs.