Our team is thrilled to share that James Madison University Libraries have signed on to Humanities Commons as a sustaining member. Their participation over the coming years will help us to continue supporting our community of researchers, educators, students and other creators to discover open works, connect with their peers, and share their valuable contributions to our collective knowledge. What’s more, their first year’s membership contribution has been matched 3:1 as part of our National Endowment for the Humanities matching grant.

Yasmeen Shorish, JMU Libraries’ Director of Scholarly Communications Strategies, shared the following thoughts: “I am so pleased that [we are] able to help support Humanities Commons. Investing in academy-operated infrastructure aligns with our values and mission: providing open, inclusive, and equitable access — and opportunities for creation — to all creators and their audience. Membership with HCommons will ensure representation of institutions like JMU in community-building and governance activities that are crucial to sustainable and vibrant scholarly communications.”

Sustaining members are crucial to the Commons’ ability to offer our core site — hcommons.org — to users worldwide, free of charge, and to our ability to invest in the maintenance and growth of the entire Commons network. We are grateful to everyone at JMU Libraries for their work in bringing our two organizations together, and we look forward to growing our relationship over the coming years.

If your organization shares our vision of a more open, equitable future of knowledge exchange, consider joining today. Contributions will be matched 3:1 by the NEH until the end of June, up to $40,000.