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Support community-owned scholarly infrastructure. 💖
The KC Champions program invites supporters of Knowledge Commons to help sustain our open platform where scholars and educators share research, collaborate, and build knowledge together. Become a Champion and help strengthen the future of open, nonprofit scholarly communication!
Learn more: https://about.hcommons.org/kc-champions/
March 2-6, 2026 is international Open Education Week . This week, teachers, learners, advocates, and professionals across the world are celebrating the benefits of open educational resources and practices. In celebration of Open Education Week, the Open Education Conference has released the video
There’s just something about seeing the humanities thrive that makes us feel all the love. 💗
At Knowledge Commons, we’re passionate about supporting open scholarship and creating space for humanities research to be shared, discovered, and celebrated.
Because when research reaches wider audiences, everyone wins.
Dear Open Access,
Thanks for making research open, shareable, and easy to fall in love with. 💌 You help scholars and communities everywhere discover and connect through knowledge.
We love supporting open research and helping humanities work reach the audiences it deserves.
#KnowledgeCommons #OpenAccess #OpenKnowledge #Humanities #ScholarlyCommunication
The Open Education Conference is going back virtual! The 2026 Open Education Conference (OpenEd26) will be held on October 27-29, 2026 as a fully virtual event with attendance welcomed from across the globe. As the conference’s 23rd annual gathering, OpenEd26 will continue to foster collaboration
Larissa Baca (@babaklar) thinks we can best grow the Open Social Web by continuing to talk about how it benefits the community and how it is not run by tech giants who don’t care about people. For their submission to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop March 2:
https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/#papers
We are in the final technical stages of launching our institutional repository, KC Works. The idea is to provide a community-governed, academic-owned repository system with decent, open values. Here's some more info about it!
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/resource-reviews/2026/review-of-kc-works-for-institutions
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