Category: Community

• Support Humanities Commons as a Sustaining Member

  If you know Humanities Commons well, you know that we are committed to a more just and equitable future of knowledge creation. We take our place alongside other incredible people and organisations working towards the same goal, knowing the only way to make true, transformational change is to leverage our collective power. Right now, we are […]

• Open Access for Teachers: A Reflection from a New Hire

  Last week, we celebrated International Open Access Week with guest posts from some of our friends, and we decided to keep the party going a little longer! Today, June Oh, Assistant Professor in English & Digital Studies at The University of Texas at Tyler, shares her thoughts on the joy of an open access syllabus. […]

• Finding Joy in Open Access: Reflections from the Humanities Commons Team

  As we conclude our celebration of International Open Access Week, we asked our team to reflect on what joy in open access looks like for them. Zoe Wake Hyde, Community Development Manager As someone who has worked for many years in open access and open education, I have a somewhat complicated relationship to the theme […]

• A Bumpy Start to the Joys of Open Access: A Festive Perspective

  Today, as we continue to celebrate International Open Access Week and reflect on finding joy in OA work, we’ve got a guest post from our friends at H-Net and the Journal of Festive Studies. More than six years ago, the open access joy of The Journal of Festive Studies began. Patrick Cox, the then-Vice-President for […]

• Why Open Access? An Infographic from Julian Chambliss

  This week, October 24-30, is International Open Access Week and we’re celebrating by partnering with some of our friends to reflect on the theme of joy in open access! In this infographic by Julian Chambliss—Professor of English at Michigan State University, Val Berryman Curator of History at the MSU Museum, and faculty lead for the Graphic […]

• On Prior Publication

  Last week, we received two takedown notices for items deposited to CORE. They arrived at nearly the same time, and so we found ourselves thinking about them in connected ways, though their cases are very, very different. The first came through AWS Abuse, who passed on a report to us that we were distributing copyright […]

• Embedded Documents in websites on the Commons

  The Commons has long supported two plugins that allow users to embed PDFs and other documents within their Commons-hosted websites: PDFjs Viewer and the Google Docs Embedder. Both of these plugins are now obsolete and are being retired. We have converted embedded documents to download links. There are cases where embedding documents may be useful, […]

• Misinformation and the Commons

  My birthday fell earlier this week, and brought with it the usual delightful overflow of Facebook greetings. It was always my favorite part of that platform, and it managed to draw me out of the semi-boycott I’ve been conducting to say thanks to everyone. My semi-boycott means that while I haven’t deleted my account because […]

• We Need Your Input

  The questions that have recently surfaced for us around community, safety, and trust have made clear the extent to which we on the Commons team need ongoing feedback and advice from our users. Our network governance model, recognizing that need, provide for two advisory groups: a technical advisory group and a user advisory group. Members […]

• Community, Safety, and Trust

  Earlier this month, the Modern Language Association held its annual convention, and our team hoped that we would be able to engage with attendees, helping them continue their conversations with one another via the Commons. Instead, we found ourselves fending off what initially looked like a bot attack: a massive influx of new account creation […]