Welcome to Academic Commons

Academic Commons is Columbia University’s online repository where current faculty, student, and staff can deposit the results of their scholarly work and research. Most content in Academic Commons is freely available to the public. However, doctoral dissertations are accessible only to current members of the University community.

View recently deposited content from the:

• Center on Japanese Economy and Business
• Economics Department
• Columbia Dissertations and Theses
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Group
• Columbia University Libraries/Information Services
• Columbia University Teachers College
• Department of Computer Science
• Department of Statistics
• Institute for Latin American Studies
• School of the Arts
• The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review
• Programs in Occupational Therapy

Academic Commons Does What?

• Is crawled by Google Scholar, making work visible to the world.
• Helps researchers comply with grant requirements for deposit, archiving, and dissemination.
• Provides a preservation plan and secure, long-term storage for many digital file types.
• Ensures that work is findable and found online - today. And a hundred years from today.
• Is a service of the Columbia University Libraries/Information Services and is managed by the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship.

Start : Search

Use the box in the top left to enter search terms. Or, browse by: title, author, keyword. Combine search terms in the Advanced Search

Start : Deposit

Current faculty, staff, and students are invited to deposit research materials that are already in a digital format, including: articles; monographs; working papers; conference papers; images; datasets; multimedia creations; technical reports; preprints; software code; and, theses.

To Learn More About

Depositing your work with Academic Commons, please email Sarah Holsted at sholsted [at] columbia.edu.

Further help on use and deposit into Academic Commons can be found at the Academic Commons FAQ. For more information on Academic Commons and related services, visit the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship's site.