open access

• 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…

• 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…

• 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,…

• 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,…

• 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…

• 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…

• Digital Scholar Donates $20,000 to Support Knowledge Commons…and Helps Us Reach A Major Milestone!

  Today, the Knowledge Commons team is delighted to share that Digital Scholar has donated $20,000 to supporting KC. We are immensely grateful to the support Digital Scholar has shown us over the years, with the funds donated to our project since 2019 now totalling $172,500. And, this donation is particularly impactful for us this year,…

• 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…