KCWorks

• Introducing the New Stats Dashboard in KCWorks!

  Curious about how your collection is performing? Our new Stats Dashboard is here to help you dig into the numbers and learn more about your collection’s reach and engagement! You can view stats for individual collections in KCWorks, or for the repository as a whole.   If you’re the admin of a collection, head to…

• Downtime, Profiles Data Bug, and a Round of More Positive Technical Updates

  tl;dr: We’ve had some downtime due to AI bots hammering us. We’re working on it. We had another bug where profile fields disappeared. We fixed it (duplicate metadata in the wp_bp_xprofile_field table). We’re doing lots of cool new development work. When big corporate players have problems or downtime, they tend to hide them and see…

• Increase the Findability of your KCWorks Deposits

  Did you know that there’s a way to increase the ability for others to find your work? When you publish to an open access repository your work is there for people to find, but in order for them to find it, it has to be discoverable. To increase the odds that someone who is interested…

• KCWorks Moving Ahead

  By Ian Scott and Bonnie Russell Out of Beta As we have taken stock and planned our next steps (“On the NEH and Our Path Forward”), we have realized that KCWorks is now a robust and fully-functional platform. Version 0.5.0, released this week, already has the features and stability people rely on in an Open…

• On the NEH and Our Path Forward

  

  Over the last several weeks, we’ve seen colleagues of ours across the country posting about the direct impacts they’re experiencing of the current attacks on the National Endowment for the Humanities, including sudden and extensive terminations of previously awarded grants. We hurt for everyone who’s trying to figure out how to carry on, not least…

• Swimming upstream

  Reposted from: Martin Paul Eve, “Swimming upstream”, https://eve.gd, February 21, 2025, https://doi.org/10.59348/3e3vq-jf273. Open source projects like InvenioRDM – on which we rely for our repository software at Knowledge Commons – thrive on community contributions. When initiatives like ours not only use these platforms but actively contribute improvements back to the original codebase, everyone benefits. This…

• KCWorks Named Designated Public-Access Repository of the National Endowment for the Humanities

  Knowledge Commons (KC) is delighted to announce that our repository, KCWorks has been selected as the designated public-access repository of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The partnership between KC and the NEH will fulfill the agency’s commitment to making federally funded research freely available without delay as mandated by the White House Office…

• Knowledge Commons Works has launched!

  The Knowledge Commons team is over the moon to share with you today that the beta version of our new repository is LIVE! Knowledge Commons Works (KCWorks for short) has been a massive, team-wide effort over the past year to create a repository platform suited for the needs of our users today, and well into…

• What Is A Repository For?

  If you haven’t heard, in 2024 Humanities Commons will be launching a completely reimagined open-access repository. It’s currently under heavy construction. So we’ve been asking ourselves: Why does the Commons have a repository in the first place? At our heart we are a social network, a hub for scholarly exchange. Most of us don’t think…