Faculty & Staff

By Nicole Bufanio, communications coordinator, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship

This summer we invited everyone at the Mailman School to deposit their scholarly work in Columbia’s online repository – and several of you did! Epidemiology faculty member Charles DiMaggio deposited articles and book chapters. The National Center for Disaster Preparedness and the National Center for Children in Poverty provided a comprehensive list of articles and reports.

Join your colleagues and take advantage of this service, provided for free by the Columbia University Libraries, to make your work readily available. Unlike Mailman’s faculty directory, which supports only a partial listing of publications, Academic Commons allows an unlimited number of deposits, provides a permanent URL for every item, and is crawled by Google Scholar.

We are interested in students’ work, too – theses, presentations, and more. By depositing in Academic Commons, their work will have wider dissemination and the potential to yield citations. The permanent URL will afford them the opportunity to share their theses on their CVs and future job applications.

Academic Commons also serves as a secure place for supplemental materials and data associated with journal articles. Some journals, such as the Journal of Neuroscience, will soon require authors to house their supplemental materials in locations other than the journal’s site.

For more information about depositing, view the FAQs about Academic Commons.

Beyond preserving and sharing scholarly materials, we offer consultation on copyright agreements and publishing contracts. Dr. Kenneth Crews, Director of Columbia’s Copyright Advisory Office, will present a copyright workshop on Thursday, October 21 from 1:00 to 2:30 PM at Hess Student Commons at Mailman.

If you’re interested in joining your fellow Mailman faculty in Academic Commons, you may e-mail the Digital Repository Manager at info@cdrs.columbia.edu.