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…
Why You Should Donate to Knowledge Commons: Insights from Our Team

All last week as part of our Giving Tuesday campaign, we featured posts on our social media from our team members. We asked them to reflect on what is most impactful to them about working on Knowledge Commons, and why you should consider donating to support the Commons. Below you can read all of their…
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…
Trust in Science: Accessibility, Persistence, and the Public Good

I had the privilege last week of speaking at the International Association of Universities conference, held at the University of Rwanda. It was a long and at moments difficult journey, but well worth it for the conversations that took place there. The conference theme was “Building Trust in Higher Education” — a goal that has…
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…
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…
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…
Behind the scenes of #ResearchSpotlights

The #ResearchSpotlights social media campaign for Knowledge Commons has been ongoing since April 2023. Since then, many hands have taken up mining the KC repository, KCWorks, to share the exciting and varying works that people worldwide add to it. Many of these hands have been graduate students within the English department at Michigan State University,…
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…
On Accessibility and Security

In keeping with our commitment to be a platform for everyone and a good partner to both our current organizational members and those who wish to join us, the Knowledge Commons team recently completed two important reports: the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) and the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit (HECVAT). Taken together these…