Center for Digital Research and Scholarship [2 items]

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 necessary to make the most of scholarly communication, collaboration, data-sharing, and preservation. CDRS is part of Columbia University Libraries/Information Services (CUL/IS).

CDRS has as its core mission (1) the facilitation of Columbia’s research and dissemination through the development and support of platforms and tools for advancing of research and scholarship; (2) research support that sustains ongoing academic conversations through distributed network communities, conferences, and structured user contributions; and (3) education about the rapid changes taking place within the scholarly communication process.