OASIS aims to provide an authoritative ‘sourcebook’ on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. The site highlights developments and initiatives from around the world, with links to diverse additional resources and case studies. As such, it is a community-building as much as a resource-building exercise. Users are encouraged to share and download the resources provided, and to modify and customize them for local use. Open Access is evolving, and we invite the growing world-wide community to take part in this exciting global movement.

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.

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