In light of the proposal from the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS) to use publishers’ existing infrastructure to identify and provide free access to peer-reviewed articles based on publicly supported research, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) Director Rebecca Kennsion has reflected on what CHORUS would mean for libraries if adopted.

Kennison told Library Journal in their June 6th article on the CHORUS proposal: “In reply to the comments on the Scholarly Kitchen posting by Kent Anderson, Thane Kerner of Silverchair says that ‘several university and library organizations’ have been consulted by the CHORUS Steering Committee. Those organizations are not listed, so it is hard to know who were included in those initial discussions and what role they played. I think the comments in response to that posting concerning libraries raise interesting questions that remain (at least as of this [Wednesday] evening) unanswered by the CHORUS Steering Committee. It remains unclear what role, if any, CHORUS would see libraries playing in the solution they are proposing.”

Kennison continued: “CHORUS addresses well the publisher piece of the infrastructure, but ignores almost entirely the rest of the research ecosystem. A solution that takes into account the entire research life cycle would optimally provide possibilities for collective stakeholder collaborations that would include librarians, who understand well the needs and demands of controlled vocabularies, authority records, complex reporting systems, and so on, as well as Offices of Research (including sponsored projects administrators and compliance officers), PIs, departmental assistants, and others actively engaged daily in the research process.”

Kennsion also pointed out that in addition to their traditional role, libraries are increasingly publishers as well, and their publications may not be a good fit for the CHORUS model: “The CHORUS workflow assumes all publishers operate like large publishers do, in particular that they all use online journal content management systems that generate structured XML that could be fed into FundRef, that they all produce full-text XML that could be deposited into Portico/LOCKSS, and that they are all members of CrossRef. Many societies that publish independently and many library-based publishing operations (a rapidly growing group) may not operate in this way and may not be able to do so…It seems less clear how such groups might participate in the proposed clearinghouse solution outside of the workflow outlined by CHORUS.”

The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) is proud to announce the launch of On Our Terms, the undergraduate journal of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College. On Our Terms is an online, peer-reviewed, academic journal of women and leadership created by Barnard College students, who aim to “provide a platform for global student thought and debate seeking to enhance our generation’s discourse on the theme.” The journal features scholarship by undergraduates from around the world, publishes both original academic articles and multimedia pieces, and is published twice each year in April and in November. Five pieces from themes ranging from community organizing to cyberfeminism were selected for the Spring 2013 issue, and can be freely read on the On Our Terms website here.

CDRS worked with the Athena Center and Barnard Library & Academic Information Services (BLAIS) to design, develop, and host the On Our Terms website at onourterms.barnard.edu, as well as provide regular consultation on website updates, marketing, and social media for the journal (the On Our Terms Twitter feed is updated daily.) CDRS runs the On Our Terms site through Open Journals Systems (OJS), an open source journal management and publishing system that enables the On Our Terms editors to make all their journal content open access and freely accessible to the public.

On Our Terms was born out of a conversation in 2011 between outgoing Editor-in-Chief and Barnard College ‘13 student Lauren Seaman and Dr Abigail Lewis, Associate Director of the Athena Center and Program Director of the Athena Scholars Program. The Athena Center for Leadership Studies had been wanting to expand student programs and enable greater participation in Athena projects for some time, and starting up a new journal to enhance undergraduate discourse on the theme of leadership was an ideal way to do this. A four-student-strong editorial board of Barnard College undergraduates was established – Lauren Seaman, Jennifer Fearon, Jessica Gingrich, and Lauren Wingenroth, along with a steering committee consisting of the Athena Center, CDRS, and Barnard Library. Faculty reviewers stretch from New York to California to Sweden, which has enabled the On Our Terms editors to foster a truly global dialogue on women’s leadership.

Seaman said of the journal’s launch: “The conversation on women and leadership has, until now, been directed and defined by those already in leadership positions who think about authority. Launching On Our Terms is important for undergraduates because they don’t usually have forums to put their work – they usually just write a paper and don’t know what to do with it. What is really valuable about this journal on women’s leadership is that it enables undergraduates to be authorized, feel a sense of agency, and contribute to the larger, worldwide discussion that defines what leadership means today.”

Fearon, On Our Terms Managing Editor and fellow Barnard College ‘13 student, emphasized the importance of undergraduates joining the debate on women and leadership. “Academic discussions on women and leadership are happening all over the world, and On Our Terms gives undergraduates a forum to join the debate. Those of us on the editorial team have had an incredibly enriching experience in that we as students have been handed so much power and ownership – we’ve been able to build the journal from the ground up ourselves, and truly set its tone.”

Lewis commented on the milestone: “The launch of On Our Terms is an exciting venture because, for the first time, it is the undergraduate voice provoking this academic discourse on the burgeoning field of women’s leadership.  At the Athena Center for Leadership Studies, we are dedicated to fostering research and public dialogue that re-imagines our understanding of leadership, and On Our Terms does just this by providing a fully accessible platform for interdisciplinary scholarship. The editorial team has transformed their powerful vision into an active discussion, and they are a true inspiration to undergraduates around the world for having created a space for the ideas of young women leaders to incubate, develop, and be heard.”

Rebecca Kennison, CDRS Director, added: “Partnering with the Athena Center for Leadership Studies to create a new undergraduate platform for open scholarship has been enormously exciting, not simply because it enables students here to join the academic debate on women and leadership, but because the open format of the journal and global reach of submissions means the discussion can extend well beyond the campus gates and engage those debating these topics around the world. We are proud to have built a platform that enables younger scholars to contribute to such important, relevant discussions on the nature of leadership.”

Undergraduates and recent graduates are now invited to submit their work for the Fall 2013 issue of On Our Terms. Submissions must be undergraduate research, which can be from all disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and the STEM fields that inform readership on the topic. Pieces that promote the exercise of leadership skills such as advocacy, ambition, communication, entrepreneurship, leverage, resilience, and vision are encouraged. To review the submission requirements and deadlines, please visit the On Our Terms website.

NB. This press release can also be found on the Columbia Libraries website here.

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On Our Terms

On Our Terms is an online, peer-reviewed, academic journal of women and leadership.  Produced under the auspices of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College, this publication features scholarship by undergraduates from across the globe seeking to enhance our generation’s discourse on the theme. The journal created for students, by students, and goal of the editors is to provide a platform for student thought, debate, and voice through the publication of original academic articles and multimedia pieces.

The Athena Center for Leadership Studies

Established at Barnard College in 2009, the Athena Center for Leadership Studies is dedicated to the advancement of women’s leadership around the world. We create and promote innovative approaches to leadership development; we educate and develop new generations of women leaders; we challenge – and change – cultural stereotypes of leaders; and we foster research and public dialogue that expands our understanding of leadership. A special initiative of Barnard President Debora Spar, the Athena Center is directed by Kathryn Kolbert, a public-interest attorney and journalist, who brings to Barnard an impressive record of collaborative leadership, educational programming, and civil-rights advocacy. For more information, visit athenacenter.barnard.edu.

The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS)

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.

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services (CUL/IS)

CUL/IS is one of the top five academic research library systems in North America. The collections include over 11 million volumes, over 150,000 journals and serials, as well as extensive electronic resources, manuscripts, rare books, microforms, maps, and graphic and audio-visual materials. The services and collections are organized into 22 libraries and various academic technology centers. The Libraries employs more than 500 professional and support staff. The website of the Libraries is the gateway to its services and resources: library.columbia.edu.

Barnard Library

The Barnard Library and Academic Information Services unit advances the mission of Barnard College by supporting excellence and innovation in teaching and learning. It provides information resources and instructional support services that establish a foundation for intellectual inquiry, ethical scholarship, lifelong learning and the dissemination of knowledge.

It’s been a year of amazing growth for Academic Commons, Columbia University’s digital research repository, as we prepare to add the 10,000th item to our collection. If you are a Columbia-affiliate who has contributed your work to Academic Commons, we’re hosting an event next Thursday May 2, from 5 to 7 pm in Rooms 522 and 523 of Butler Library. Food and drink will be provided, as well as a chance to win a Nook Simple Touch! If you’d like to attend, please RSVP at bit.ly/AC10000. If you haven’t yet deposited your work, you can do so here: bit.ly/ACdeposit

We CDRS folk have sharpened up our teaching skills and are leading three workshops for the GSAS Teaching Center this Spring:

New Paths for Scholarly Publication

Wednesday March 27, 5pm, 204 Butler Library

Session led by Mark Newton, CDRS Production Manager

This session will focus on new opportunities in scholarly online publishing, with emphasis on journals and other outlets that are available to scholars and teachers without large investments or expertise in technology. After outlining support for digital publishing offered through Columbia’s libraries, we will step through many of the attendant issues that pertain to scholarly publishing projects of all sizes — including editorial workflow, rights management, online search and discovery, and the value and challenges presented by projects that produce completely open content. Registrants are encouraged to come to the workshop with their own publishing projects and ideas in mind.

There will be pizza. Register for the 3/27 session

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Social Environments and Reputation Management for Academics

Wednesday April 3, 5 pm, 204 Butler Library

Session led by CDRS Communications Coordinator Leyla Williams and Center for New Media Teaching and Learning Educational Technologist Adrienne Garber

This session explores opportunities for the development of scholarly identity in a digital landscape. It is ideal for graduate students interested in creating academic profiles, joining research communities, and connecting with peers via their scholarly work. Presenters will address questions such as how to manage your reputation online, how to increase visibility of your work, and how to engage students in research communities. We will inventory tools that make managing research more efficient and increase scholarly impact, such as Mendeley, Linkedin, Twitter, Academic Commons, and blogs.

There will be pizza. Register for the 4/3 session

(NB: We will be leading a version of this workshop for faculty as part of the Center for New Media Teaching and Learning RewirED series on 4/4 – registration details here.)

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Save Yourself! Strategies for Making a Personal Digital Archive

Wednesday April 10, 5 pm, 204 Butler Library

Session led by Rob Hilliker, CDRS Digital Repository Manager, and Amy Nurnberger, CDRS Research Data Manager

These days everyone has a story of the file that went missing — whether it’s a photo that didn’t make it from your phone onto your computer, or data you’ve been working on for the last six months. So how do you keep all those file names straight? What happens to those data when you save them? Is there some easy way to back up your work? To keep track of versions of photos as you crop and edit them? And what about long-term preservation? If managing your own digital stuff or making file management recommendations to students leaves you feeling lost in the clouds, bring your questions and get a grounding in basic personal digital archiving.

There will be pizza. Register for the 4/10 session

Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements (TOHM), an open-access, peer-reviewed medical journal focused on non-Parkinsonian tremor published by the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS), has now been accepted for inclusion by PubMed Central (PMC), the National Institutes of Health’s repository for peer-reviewed primary research reports in the life sciences.

TOHM, a newcomer in the field of movement disorders, was launched by CDRS in August 2011 at http://tremorjournal.org. The journal is set apart from other journals by its liberal article length policy (full-length articles may be up to 5,000 words) and its rapid turnaround time.

All articles archived in PMC are indexed in PubMed, which comprises more than 22 million citations in its database for biomedical literature. For journals, PMC submits article citations to PubMed as soon as their articles are live in PMC, after any publisher-specified embargo period. Citations usually appear in PubMed within 24 hours of submission to PMC. TOHM has no embargo period, so all articles from the journal are deposited immediately upon publication.

TOHM published 51 new articles since launching in 2011, with the number of submissions growing. The journal’s website website has been visited nearly 12,000 times since its 2011 launch. For TOHM, being indexed in PMC will enable the journal’s content to be more readily discoverable and, the editor-in-chief expects, attract even more quality submissions.

“The past fifteen months have seen our journal launch, the website receive hundreds of submissions, and CDRS publish groundbreaking articles by leaders in the field of movement disorders. Now that TOHM is being indexed in PubMed, it confirms our center-stage place in the area of non-Parkinsonian movement disorders. That the indexing will allow for even greater visibility of these articles and impact of our research is extremely exciting,” said journal Editor-in-Chief Elan D. Louis.

CDRS’ Director Rebecca Kennison commented on TOHM’s inclusion in PMC: “This is an important breakthrough moment for TOHM. Being included in PMC and indexed in PubMed will enable TOHM to continue to grow and confirms its prestige in providing an international platform for experts and specialists in the field of hyperkinetic movements. We continue to be honored to partner with Dr. Louis and his team and congratulate them on this milestone.”

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Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements (TOHM) is a rigorously peer-reviewed academic journal for the publication of scientific and clinical findings and innovations about tremor and hyperkinetic disorders. The journal aims to provide an international platform for experts and specialists in the field of hyperkinetic movements.

The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) at Columbia 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.

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services (CUL/IS) is one of the top five academic research library systems in North America. The collections include over 11 million volumes, over 150,000 journals and serials, as well as extensive electronic resources, manuscripts, rare books, microforms, maps, and graphic and audio-visual materials. The services and collections are organized into 22 libraries and various academic technology centers. The Libraries employs more than 500 professional and support staff. The website of the Libraries is the gateway to its services and resources: library.columbia.edu.

NB: A version of this press release can be found on the Columbia University Libraries site here.

Columbia University’s Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) is pleased to announce the launch of the new website for the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law (CJGL). The law journal, which has published cutting-edge legal research on sex, gender, and sexual orientation since 1991, benefits from an elegant new website design that archives past and current journal volumes and aids in the management of journal subscriptions and submissions of articles, essays, comments, book reviews, and letters for review.

CJGL aims to advance feminist scholarship and to serve as an outlet for interested students, practitioners, and academics by fostering dialogue, debate, and awareness about gender-related issues and feminist scholarship. The journal features the writing of noted scholars in feminist jurisprudence, including judges, law professors, and Columbia law students, and welcomes articles about law from a range of academic disciplines. The journal is edited and published entirely by students at the Columbia University School of Law, with all journal members participating in the submissions decision-making process. CJGL is also the only Columbia law journal that welcomes law students to join its staff as early as their first-year.

Angelina Liang, CJGL Editor-in-Chief, is delighted with the journal’s new site. “I took over as Editor-in-Chief in March 2012,” she said, “and started working with CDRS on the transition from turning our print-only journal into an online publication. The journal having existed in print-only form until this year, it has been very difficult for my team and me to deal with submissions and field questions without an online presence. We are thrilled with our new website, which enables students, practitioners, and academics around the world to access published articles, and it was a pleasure to work with CDRS to develop the site.”

Rebecca Kennison, CDRS Director, commented: “The launch of CJGL online is a terrific achievement for the journal editors, the CDRS production team, and everyone else involved. That an international community of lawyers, students, academics, and members of the public can now access this prestigious home of gender-focused legal scholarship is of huge benefit to Columbia, the field of feminist jurisprudence, and to students the world over.”

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The Columbia Journal of Gender and Law

First published in 1991, the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law is a law journal edited and published entirely by students at the Columbia University School of Law. The Journal publishes interdisciplinary works related to feminism and gender-related issues with the aim of promoting dialogue, debate, and awareness around an expansive view of feminism embracing women and men of different colors, classes, sexual orientations, and cultures.

The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS)

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.

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services (CUL/IS)

CUL/IS is one of the top five academic research library systems in North America. The collections include over 11 million volumes, over 150,000 journals and serials, as well as extensive electronic resources, manuscripts, rare books, microforms, maps, and graphic and audio-visual materials. The services and collections are organized into 22 libraries and various academic technology centers. The Libraries employs more than 500 professional and support staff. The website of the Libraries is the gateway to its services and resources: library.columbia.edu

Friends! We, along with Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, Columbia’s Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering, and Elsevier are pleased to announce the Research Data Symposium, an event to lead discussion on topics related to managing and curating research data and a variety of other research outputs. The event will be free, open to everyone, and held on Wednesday, February 27, 2013.

Our Symposium will feature speaker panels addressing the different stages of the research data life cycle, with representatives from Columbia faculty, learned societies, research institutions, funders, and publishers coming together to examine the implementation stages, available technologies and associated challenges and barriers for managing, preserving and accessing research data. Attendees will leave armed with valuable information to engage their respective organizational stakeholders to initiate and continue long-term research and data management efforts.

The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship is currently calling for posters (poster commitments due February 8, final posters due February 22.)

James Neal, University Librarian at Columbia, commented: “Columbia Libraries/Information Services are honored to host this symposium on the challenges of managing the life cycle of research data across the arenas of creation to use to preservation. The speakers reflect the mandate for a new radical collaboration among researcher, funder, publisher, information professional and technologist.”

David Marques, Senior Vice President Research Data Services at Elsevier, added: “The potential opportunities presented by the nature of digital research data management are both extraordinary and challenging. Elsevier is proud to collaborate with Columbia to support an event that will lead the discussion and enhance the knowledge of stakeholders in the research community.”

Space for the Symposium is limited. To register, please RSVP on the Symposium website here.

Program Schedule and Speakers

9 am – Registration and continental breakfast

9:30am – Keynotes

•   James G. Neal, University Librarian, Columbia University

•   David Marques, Elsevier

•   Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge

10:15am – Panel 1: Plan & Collect

•   Joan Starr, California Digital Library

•   Gail Steinhart, Cornell University Libraries

•   George Alter, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

•   Michael F. Huerta, National Institutes of Health

•   Victoria Stodden, Department of Statistics, Columbia University (respondent)

•   Moderator TBD

11.45am-12.30pm – Buffet Lunch

12:30pm – Panel 2: Assure, Describe & Preserve

•   Jake Carlson, Distributed Data Curation Center, Purdue University

•   Linda Beebe, Former Senior Director of PsycINFO, American Psychological Association

•   Steven Morales, The Digital Preservation Network

•   Bob Chen, Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Earth Institute, Columbia University (respondent)

•   David Madigan, Department of Statistics, Columbia University (moderator)

2:00pm – Panel 3: Integrate & Analyze

•   Heather Piwowar, ImpactStory

•   Susan McGregor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

•   Mark Hansen, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (respondent)

•   Kathy McKeown, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University (moderator)

3:00pm: Coffee Break

3:15pm – Panel 4: Discover, Share, & Impact

•   Micah Altman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries

•   Gerhard Klimeck, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

•   Mark Hahnel, Figshare

•   Denis Tenen, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University (respondent)

•   Kenneth Crews, Columbia University Libraries (moderator)

4:30pm – Closing Remarks

•   Jan Brase, German National Library of Science and Technology

5pm: End

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Columbia University Libraries/Information Services (CUL/IS)

CUL/ISis one of the top five academic research library systems in North America. The collections include over 11 million volumes, over 150,000 journals and serials, as well as extensive electronic resources, manuscripts, rare books, microforms, maps, and graphic and audio-visual materials. The services and collections are organized into 22 libraries and various academic technology centers. The Libraries employs more than 500 professional and support staff. The website of the Libraries is the gateway to its services and resources: library.columbia.edu

The Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering (IDSE)

IDSE at Columbia University strives to be the single world-leading institution in research and education in the theory and practice of the emerging field of data science broadly defined. Equally important in this mission is supporting and encouraging entrepreneurial ventures emerging from the research IDSE conducts. To accomplish this goal, the Institute seeks to forge closer relationships between faculty already at the University, to hire new faculty, to attract interdisciplinary graduate students interested in problems relating to big data, and to build strong and mutually beneficial relationships with industry partners. The Institute seeks to attract external funding from both federal and industrial sources to support is research and educational mission.

The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS)

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 byRebecca Kennison, is one of six entities that comprise the Digital Programs and Technology Services branch ofColumbia 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.

Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, includingThe Lancet andCell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier’s online solutions includeScienceDirect,Scopus,Reaxys,ClinicalKey and Mosby’s Nursing Suite, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and theSciVal suite andMEDai’s Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively. A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part ofReed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange)

Happy nearly-the-holidays, folks! We’re excited to announce the launch of the website for the 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute for College & University Teachers “America’s Russian-Speaking Immigrants and Refugees: Twentieth Century Migration and Memory.”

Columbia University was the recipient of the prestigious NEH grant, and the Summer Institute will be held June 9 through June 29, 2013. Co-directors of the Summer Institute are Harriman Institute Research Scholar Edward Kasinec and Columbia University Libraries’ Robert Davis, with the leadership of Harriman Director Timothy M. Frye. The Summer Institute will consider the substance of the terms “diaspora,”  “transnational,” “accommodation,” and “memory” through the specific prism of the four distinct waves—First (1917-40), Second (1947-55), Third (1967-89), and Fourth (1989 to the present)— of Russian-speaking immigrants to America.

The Institute is also looking towards a “re-pairing” of the 20th-century historical narrative, which hitherto has looked at “Soviet and post-Soviet history” separately from “Russia abroad.” The scholars will have an extended opportunity to make use of printed and rich archival resources available at Columbia, which the Institute hopes will ensure that these scholars return for further research in the future.

Columbia is one of the preeminent centers for Slavic, east European, and Eurasian studies in the United States, and the upcoming Institute, along with 2011’s Summer Institute on the past, present, and future of Russian studies in America, is but another manifestation of this recognition. The Institute will enable a competitively selected, highly diverse group of NEH Summer Scholars from across the country to participate.

CDRS collaborated with the Institute organizers and developed and launched the Summer Institute website, which details the core Summer Institute issues and narratives, features study plans and resources, and enables prospective candidates to apply to become Summer Scholars. Streamlining the application process in this way is proving to be invaluable for Institute organizers, who know well that working out the practical logistics for such an event is no mean feat. “It takes at minimum half a year to do the job right, and in order to formulate an Institute theme, input must be solicited from faculty, the topic must be defined and redefined, and commitments must be made from leading scholar-presenters in specific areas from around the country,” said Davis.

On collaborating with CDRS, Davis continued: “Having the precedent of 2011 made the process very straightforward, and the CDRS staff always exhibit the highest standards of professionalism and knowledge of their fields. We have been very satisfied with their services, and intend to include them again in the near future!”

Rebecca Kennison, CDRS Director, added: “It has been a great pleasure to work with the Institute team to create this new site, the second Institute site we have hosted. It is an honor to be part of an event that will contribute such excellence in scholarship to Columbia and to the field of Slavic, east European, and Eurasian studies.”

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The Harriman Institute is a leading center for the advancement of knowledge in the field of Russian and Eurasian studies at Columbia University. Through its programs, conferences, lectures, and publications, it seeks to create a forum for intellectual exchange and the further enhancement of students’ education. Find more about The Harriman Institute and their research on their website.

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.

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services is one of the top five academic research library systems in North America. The collections include over 11 million volumes, over 150,000 journals and serials, as well as extensive electronic resources, manuscripts, rare books, microforms, maps, and graphic and audio-visual materials. The services and collections are organized into 22 libraries and various academic technology centers. The Libraries employs more than 500 professional and support staff. The website of the Libraries is the gateway to its services and resources: library.columbia.edu.

Folks! We’re looking for detail-oriented library school interns with excellent communication skills who are interested in learning about current issues in institutional repositories, scholarly communication, copyright, emerging digital publishing practices, and digital A/V creation and archiving.

Existing networks and new technologies present a host of opportunities and challenges for the scholarly communication system, and libraries are at the forefront of creating new modes to address the changing environment in which scholarship and research is produced, with groups like CDRS playing a key role. Interns in this position will have the opportunity to explore first-hand effective systems for creating, disseminating, and preserving digital scholarly content. No prior experience is required. These internships are unpaid and require a semester-long commitment. Only currently enrolled students are eligible for consideration.

Internship Site
Center for Digital Research and Scholarship
Columbia University Libraries/Information Services
201 Lehman Library
International Affairs Building
410 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027

Internship Assignment

With the guidance of the Centerʼs Digital Repository Manager, Scholarly Communication Program Head, Communication Coordinator, Production Manager, and Video Services Manager, and with consultative input from the Director of the Copyright Advisory Office, interns will support copyright clearance, metadata creation, and editorial and production work at CDRS. Based on their interests, interns can focus in one of four areas: social media and outreach, scholarly publishing and production, video production and preservation, or institutional research repositories and data management.

Depending on the area of focus, primary responsibilities will include:

• • Evaluation of copyright and permissions statuses of materials slated for online distribution as part of projects undertaken by CDRS or for deposit in Columbiaʼs research repository, Academic Commons
• • Research on institutional repository practices and technologies and drafting of text for the Academic Commons website
• • Creation of test cases and user interviews, and quality assurance/testing of user interfaces, permissions tools, and content-access systems within Academic Commons and other CDRSʼ projects
• • Drafting/editing of text for the CDRS website and for marketing/educational materials about the work of the Center
•  Simple production duties for CDRSʼ journal and conference projects
• • Creation of metadata for items deposited in Academic Commons and for other projects as needed
• • Use of social media platforms to promote Columbia-created research and the activities of CDRS, to engage the community, and to enhance partner relationships
• • Simple video production duties for CDRSʼ video services team
• • Regular consultation with and reporting to supervisors and appropriate staff members on tasks, processes, and outcomes

Professional Interactions
Through daily or weekly work, the interns will communicate with CDRS staff members, the Copyright Advisory Office, other employees at Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, and with Columbia faculty, students, scholars, and alumni/ae whose materials the intern handles.

Professional Development
Depending on their chosen area of focus, the interns will receive training and hands-on experience in practices associated with the management of digital repositories; in the production of online journals, conferences, and websites; in the recording, postproduction, and preservation of digital video; and/or in the use of social media to enhance the scholarly communication process; and/or in issues such as open access and copyright.

Primary Site Supervisor
Digital Repository Manager, CDRS

Timeframe
The duration of this unpaid internship is one semester, either during the Fall, Spring, or Summer sessions.

Schedule
10–15 hours per week.

Compensation
This is an unpaid internship.

To Apply
For consideration for the coming Spring semester, please e-mail your resume and cover letter to: rhilliker@columbia.edu. Please identify a primary (and, if you wish, a secondary) focus area in your letter, and explain why that area is of particular interest to you.

Drum roll, please — we’ve launched the Columbia Social Work Review (CSWR) online! CSWR (formerly the Journal of Student Social Work) is an annual peer-reviewed journal for social work students to share their research, experiences and views with those in the Columbia community and in the social work field at large.

The mission of CSWR is to “provide a forum for the exchange of innovative ideas that integrate social work practice, education, research, and theory from the perspective of social work students. Founded by students at Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW) in 2003 as the Columbia University Journal of Student Social Work, the academic journal provides an opportunity for students in the field of social work to share their unique experiences and perspectives with fellow students, faculty, and the larger social work community.”

The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) teamed up with CSWR to create a new website worthy of showcasing Columbia social work students’ work. CDRS designed the site and provided the ISSN, and now powers that platform and works with CSWR to deposit journal articles in Academic Commons, Columbia’s institutional repository, which enables CSWR research to be freely read around the world. (Visit http://bit.ly/ACSocialWork to browse our treasure chest of CUSSW research in Academic Commons; its contents are freely downloadable for each and every one of you.)

New editor-in-chief Claire Schoen said of the website launch: “Last year was our ten year anniversary, and CSWR has gone through lots of changes. Unlike other reviews that anybody can submit to, only CUSSW students and one-year-out CUSSW alumni can submit to CSWR, which really puts the emphasis on what current students are interested in writing about. We teamed up with CDRS to launch our new website in order to promote and increase the prestige of CSWR, but more importantly to promote and increase the prestige of the authors themselves. Rather than having their research in hard copy, each author will be able to refer their peers, faculty, and future employers to an online link to their research, which everyone can access.”

Those submitting articles to CSWR face a stiff competitive process. Of the fifty submissions the CSWR editorial board received last year, they accepted 6 and printed 5. The expectation is that they will exceed these numbers this year. “Our highly competitive submission process enables us on the editorial board to truly highlight who will be the future leaders in the social work field. We’ve received a huge interest from students in sitting on the CSWR editorial board, too; this year over 28 applicants applied for 8 new editorial positions,” noted Schoen. Currently, CSWR features twelve editorial board members; one editor-in-chief, two executive editors, one senior editor, and eight associate editors.

Kathleen Chiarantona, outgoing CSWR editor-in-chief, added: “The opportunity to work with CDRS this year has enabled us to create a whole new website for CSWR, which has had a tremendous effect not only on our presence at Columbia and within the social work community, but within the whole academic community at large. Uploading our students’ articles to Academic Commons has enabled these articles to be searchable online, and having our authors cited and referenced has allowed them to join the body of literature on the topic. All in all, we think the website is fantastic and looks incredibly professional, really legitimizing our presence as a real publication.”

Rebecca Kennison, CDRS Director, commented: ““Redeveloping CSWR’s site to provide students, faculty, and those from the wider social work community with a prestigous space in which to showcase excellent work by Columbia’s CUSSW students is hugely exciting. It has been a pleasure to collaborate with a group of such inspired, talented individuals.”

The Columbia Social Work Review is currently seeking scholarly papers that apply critical analysis to current topics in the field of social work for its next volume, to be published Spring 2013. To get in touch with the CSWR team regarding submitting a paper, please review the submissions guidelines on the CSWR website. - Claire Schoen, CSWR editor-in-chief

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The Columbia Social Work Review (formerly the Journal of Student Social Work) is an annual peer-reviewed journal for students in the field of social work to share their research, experiences and views with faculty, fellow students, and the wider scholarly community. The Review strives to enrich the scholarly nature of our school by providing a forum for the exchange of innovative ideas from the perspective of social work students, and giving students the opportunity to be published in an academic journal as master’s students.

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.

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services is one of the top five academic research library systems in North America. The collections include over 11 million volumes, over 150,000 journals and serials, as well as extensive electronic resources, manuscripts, rare books, microforms, maps, and graphic and audio-visual materials. The services and collections are organized into 22 libraries and various academic technology centers. The Libraries employs more than 500 professional and support staff. The website of the Libraries is the gateway to its services and resources: library.columbia.edu.