About
Mission Statement
The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) serves the digital research and scholarly communications needs of the faculty, students, and staff of Columbia University and its affiliates. Our mission is to increase the utility and impact of research produced at Columbia by creating, adapting, implementing, supporting, and sustaining innovative digital tools and publishing platforms for content delivery, discovery, analysis, data curation, and preservation. In pursuit of that mission, we also engage in extensive outreach, education, and advocacy to ensure that the scholarly work produced at Columbia University has a global reach and accelerates the pace of research across disciplines.
CDRS, led by Rebecca Kennison, is one of six entities that comprise the Digital Programs and Technology Services branch of Columbia University Libraries/Information Services. The Center was created in July 2007 to address the ongoing evolution of researchers’ and scholars’ needs as new technologies, policies, and systems of knowledge support arise.
Contact CDRS
For general inquiries, please email us at info [at] cdrs.columbia.edu.
Visit
CDRS is located on Columbia University’s Morningside Campus at:
201 Lehman Library
International Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
Mail Code: 3301
Walking directions to Lehman Library are available on the CUL/IS site.
Stay in touch online
Partnering with CDRS
The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) partners with researchers and scholars to share new knowledge. Using innovative new media and digital technologies, CDRS empowers Columbia’s research community with the online tools and services (including publications, repository, conferences, video, and wikischolars) necessary to make the most of scholarly communication, collaboration, data-sharing, and preservation. We work with our partners to develop projects that are usable and useful to all, and incorporate usability best practices of user-center design at each stage of the design process.
Project Process
Our services for journals, monographs, and conferences can involve complex technical development and design support. For these projects, the CDRS team undertakes careful research and planning. Our process commonly involves seven steps:
Step 1: Researching Needs
Step 2: Proposing Solutions
Step 3: Planning Implementation
Step 4: Defining Elements
Step 5: Building Products
Step 6: Evaluating Results
Step 7: Launch
Learn more about each step in the Project Process handout (PDF).
Research Impact and Preservation
We prioritize the impact and sustainability of Columbia’s scholarship and research. In addition to working with individual faculty, researchers, and departments to deposit research content into Columbia’s digital repository, Academic Commons, CDRS offers preservation of partners’ materials in the Commons as part of all our services. Follow Academic Commons on Twitter @ ResearchAtCU.
Scholarly Communication Program
The Center’s Scholarly Communication Program produces resources and an annual speaker series exploring the rapidly changing scholarly communication environment, and best policies and practices for addressing these changes. Follow the Program on Twitter @ScholarlyComm.
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