Preserve, share, and promote your scholarly and creative work.
Long-term Preservation
We provide long-term access and safekeeping for scholarly works, datasets, research materials, records, and audiovisual materials produced by the UNC-Chapel Hill community.
Accessible & Searchable
We ensure your work is accessible and searchable on our website and indexed in search engines.
You Decide Who Gets Access
We offer a range of access controls including embargoes and granting access to specific groups on campus.
Support for Larger Collections
We offer deposit and preservation support for larger UNC digital collections. Contact us to deposit your collection.
What’s in the repository?
146 collections, including 49269 texts, 286654 images, 642 datasets, 14458 audio files, and 2131 videos.
Material from 187 UNC-Chapel Hill departments, from Anthropology to Toxicology.
Case Study: CDR and UNC Press to Publish Open Access Book Series
In partnership with the Institute for the Study of the Americas, UNC Press and the CDR will provide free, open access to digital editions of the Studies in Latin America series. Per the ISA, the series “will feature short works, approximately 20,000 to 35,000 words in length.”The first book, Tropical Tongues: Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize, is available in PDF and EPUB formats in the CDR. Tropical Tongues examines the precarious state of languages in coastal Belize after the country gained independence in 1981.
Additional books in the series will be openly available in the CDR upon publication.
