Projects, Education, and Researcher Support

Special Projects

Athena Center Digital Magazine

Athena Center for Leadership Studies, Barnard College

Digital magazine to highlight the activities of the center and to publish relevant news and commentary in the field of women’s leadership. Currently in discussion.

David Copperfield @ Columbia University

Professor Eileen Gillooly, Heyman Center for the Humanities

Companion site for the forthcoming Norton Critical Edition. Currently in development. Visit David Copperfield @ Columbia.

GHRCCA Interactive Map

Global Health Research Center of Central Asia, School of Social Work

Software development, design, and hosting. Visit the GHRCCA site.

Publications Management Application

Columbia Business School

Bibliographic data coordination, publisher negotiation and permissions, and platform maintenance. Visit Ideas at Work to see the front-end output.

Research Data Papers Project

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Collaborative pilot project to explore links between scientific publications and underlying research data.

Women Film Pioneers Project

Professor Jane Gaines, School of the Arts

An online reference work, enhanced with images and multimedia. Site development and design. In development. Visit the project site.

• Seminars, Workshops, and Information Sharing

• Journal Publishing Best Practices Workshop

  Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS)

  Sharing of information on editors’ roles, authors’ rights, licensing agreements, publishing venue options, and more. Held periodically.

• Open-Access Policy Information Support

  Scholarly Communication Program, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS)

  Ongoing support for campus initiatives related to open-access policies and resolutions.

• Research Without Borders Speaker Series

  Scholarly Communication Program, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS)

  Speaker series devoted to discussion of scholarly communication issues. Video production
  and distribution via Columbia YouTube channel. Visit Research without Borders.

• Scholarly Communication Workshops

  Scholarly Communication Program, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS)

  Occasional workshops on data management, copyright, and other topics relevant to the Columbia University research community.

• Social Media Best Practices for Journal Editors Workshop

  Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS)

  Tutorial on effective ways to use the major social media platforms to engage journal readership through new channels.

• Support for Digital Thesis Creation

  Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) & the Columbia Libraries Digital Centers

  Targeted student workshop on strategies for developing digital products in conjunction with (or in the fulfillment of) digital theses, dissertations, and other substantial works of scholarship

• • Researcher Support

  • Academic Commons

    Online research repository of scholarship affiliated with Columbia University

    • Academic Commons is working to support the data management needs of Columbia researchers, particularly as they seek to comply with new funding policies from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other granting agencies.
    • Academic Commons recently launched a new FAQ page, and we are looking to enhance the quality and relevance of the information there, to ensure that visitors to our site can find what they need.
    • Academic Commons is also working to improve the statistical reporting for materials in the repository, expanding from the current monthly reports for authors to provide a wider range of reports for use by administrators and other stakeholders.
    • Ongoing Academic Commons work includes outreach and acquiring new content for the repository.
    • Visit Academic Commons. Learn more about the benefits of Academic Commons by watching our video.

    • Data Management Plan (DMP) Template

      Building a tool for Columbia researchers to assist them in fulfilling the DMP requirements of funders such as the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and others. A downloadable DMP template in Word is available on the Scholarly Communication Program Web site.

    • Marenzio Project

      Giuseppe Gerbino, Associate Professor, Historical Musicology

      Site development and hosting of project materials. In discussion. Learn more about the Marenzio Project.

    • Virtual Forest Initiative, Black Rock Forest

      Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL)

      Data management and development of administrative Web tools. Visit the Virtual Forest Initiative.

    • Wikischolars

      Wikischolars provides a hosted wiki software solution for the faculty, staff, and graduate students of Columbia University to use for collaboration, with technical support provided by CDRS. Learn more about Wikischolars by watching an informational video about how the service is being used at Columbia.

    • Software Development

    • PKP OCS Code Development

      Open Conference Systems, Public Knowledge Project

      Conference management code development partnership for OCS. In discussion.