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• No Transformative Agreements, Just Transformation

  Alicia Salaz, vice provost and university librarian at the University of Oregon, writes in Katina about the failures of both the APC model and the so-called “transformative agreements” for open access journal publishing. She argues that universities need to invest in new mission-driven, academy-owned alternatives for knowledge sharing — like Knowledge Commons. As she notes,…

• Knowledge Commons POSI Audit 2026

  

  Knowledge Commons committed, in 2025, to the adoption of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure. To that end, we’ve completed a new annual audit to determine the degree to which our operations are now in alignment with POSI version 2.0. We will continue to update this information as we make progress toward our goals. We…

• Sustainability through Community

  Our friends at Invest in Open Infrastructure have posted a fantastic case study exploring the ways that Knowledge Commons has worked toward sustainability in recent years, as well as the challenges that we’ve faced in the process. We are far from alone in facing those challenges; too many open scholarly infrastructure projects are similarly dealing…

• Become a KC Champion

  

  tl;dr: Today we’re announcing a new individual membership program, KC Champions, available through our storefront. As we have developed our vision for Knowledge Commons over the years, we have kept one unwavering commitment in view: the core functionality of our platform — including building a profile, sharing work through the repository, hosting WordPress-based websites, and…

• Join the KC Coalition

  Knowledge Commons is not just a platform — we’re a coalition. And that coalition needs you.  The tl;dr: We need to raise a significant amount of money in order to keep the project moving forward. If you, the individual human reading this, can contribute, we’d be enormously grateful. Any amount will help us reach our goal. But if you can’t, there’s still a lot you can do!   Now,…

• A Giving Tuesday Call to Action

  We know what you’re thinking: not another Giving Tuesday blog post. Believe us, we wish we didn’t have to add our voice to this week’s chorus, but here we are.  Knowledge Commons needs the support of our users more than ever to keep our services open and available to everyone. Over the past several months,…

• Digital Preservation in a Time of Disorder

  

  by Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Martin Paul Eve Institutions of higher education in the United States have long served as independent producers and disseminators of knowledge for the public good. This role has encouraged great trust in these institutions, but public trust in higher education dropped by 12% between 2015 and 2023. This trust is under…

• Connecting with HC Users: A Reflection on our Spring Cleaning Campaign

  As those working in the digital humanities know, this field incorporates the use of digital tools and technologies with traditional humanities disciplines. These features center interdisciplinary work with a potentially global impact, which highlights the need for a form of effective communication between scholars, such as Knowledge Commons. This past semester I worked on a…

• Help Us Meet Our Match

  Friends, today we’re launching a very special fundraising campaign to support the Commons. Here’s the tl;dr: we need to complete the fundraising match for our NEH challenge grant by the end of June to unlock the last of the grant. Every dollar helps our open source, academy owned, community governed platform to operate sustainably for…

• Introducing our revitalized user advisory group!

  At Humanities Commons, one of our core values is cultivating community. Bringing together people with multiple perspectives and backgrounds enables us to work toward deeper collective understanding, enriching our connections to one another and to the world. In this spirit, we’re excited to announce we’re revamping our user advisory group!  This group has existed in…