Columbia Libraries was thrilled to host the third annual OA Switchboard NYC Summit in March 2026. Collection Analysis Librarian Katherine Brooks, Head of Open Scholarship Esther Jackson and OA Switchboard Executive Director Yvonne Campfens welcomed colleagues from American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing, American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Publishing, the American Physiological Society, Rockefeller University Press, ConsortiaManager, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, TNQ, PLOS and IntelligenceBeyond for conversations that centered on the OA Switchboard roadmap and scholarly publishing more broadly.

Attendees discussed scholarly identifiers such as DOI, ORCID and ROR, trends in metadata quality and completeness, and the collaborative Data Quality Challenge with best practices for both publishers and institutions.

Read the full blog post from Esther Jackson here.