The Humanities Commons team is pleased to share that Digital Scholar has generously donated $20,000 to our ongoing work. This gift allows us to continue offering our services to our community of users for free, enabling them to discover open works, connect with their peers, and share their valuable contributions to our collective knowledge.
Digital Scholar, the organisation behind such projects as Zotero, Omeka and PressForward, has long been a supporter of critical open source infrastructures in the digital humanities, leveraging the success of their flagship projects to redistribute funds across the ecosystem.
Chief Operating Officer Sharon M. Leon shared that “Humanities Commons stands out as both an exemplary large-scale deployment of that kind of infrastructure but also as a vibrant, collegial community that makes it easy for researchers and students to embrace the benefits of working in an open access environment. As such, the Commons is exactly the kind of open source and open access digital scholarly infrastructure we at Digital Scholar are committed to developing and supporting.”
Humanities Commons has received a number of contributions from Digital Scholar since 2019, now totalling $152,500. We are immensely grateful for their ongoing support and confidence in our value to the community.
Is your organisation interested in supporting Humanities Commons? For donations, please contact our Community Development Manager, Zoe Wake Hyde (wakehyd1@msu.edu). You can also support us via a sustaining membership.