Last week, my colleague Bonnie posted about our work to take stock of our progress toward accessibility and to hold ourselves accountable for doing more through an honest reckoning with the VPAT. We’re also working to ensure that we hold ourselves to our other values as well, including openness: we want to provide an open-source, open-access platform governed as openly and transparently as possible. 

To that end, we’ve recently committed to adopting the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure and have completed our first audit. We’re pleased with our progress toward many of the POSI goals, though there are several where we have some significant work ahead. Most notably, we have some work to do toward implementing the sustainable revenue model that will free us from reliance on grants to support day-to-day operations; more about that in the weeks ahead. 

We’ll be revisiting this audit at least annually and updating the community as we draw closer to our goals. Please reach out to us — in the comments below or via email to hello@hcommons.org — if you have thoughts or questions.