News

• Digital Scholar Donates $20,000 to Knowledge Commons (and Why that Gift Matters)

  with Martin Paul Eve We are pleased to announce that Knowledge Commons has recently received a $20,000 donation from Digital Scholar to support our platform! Digital Scholar has been an incredibly generous partner for many years now, with funds donated since 2019 totaling $192,500. Their support was crucial for us in meeting our challenge match…

• 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…

• KCWorks on WP Plugin Launches on Knowledge Commons

  The KCWorks on WP plugin is now available on Knowledge Commons! This block-based plugin makes it easy to embed citations from the KCWorks repository directly on your WordPress pages, whether you are using the KCSites platform or a self-hosted WordPress installation. KCWorks is an enterprise-grade repository for academic research, collaboration tools, and publishing support for…

• Utrecht University Joins Knowledge Commons as a Sustaining Member

  

  We are excited to share that Utrecht University in Utrecht, Netherlands is joining Knowledge Commons as a sustaining member! Their participation will help us to continue supporting our community of researchers, educators, students, and creators as they discover open works, connect with their peers, and share their valuable contributions to our collective knowledge. We are…

• University of Oregon Libraries Joins Knowledge Commons as a Sustaining Member

  

  We are delighted to share that University of Oregon Libraries is joining Knowledge Commons as a sustaining member! Their participation will help us to continue supporting our community of researchers, educators, students and other creators as they discover open works, connect with their peers, and share their valuable contributions to our collective knowledge.  Sustaining members…

• 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…

• Standing by our Principles

  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,…

• 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…

• Join Knowledge Commons on Bluesky!

  Over the course of the last several months, we know many of our users have migrated over to Bluesky. In this spirit, we’ve decided to become more active on our page there. Follow us at @kcommons.bsky.social for all of our social media content, including platform updates, KCWorks spotlights, and so much more!    Along the same…

• 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…