hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1hello is the admin account for hcommons.social and the voice of Knowledge Commons, serving all your open-access, open-source, non-profit scholarly communication needs!
Formerly Humanities Commons (2016-2024)
Big updates are coming to hcommons.org on May 20! We’re launching a new login and registration system, along with refreshed, more customizable profiles. 🎉
The new system gives you more control over your account. You’ll be able to:
✅ Add or update email addresses
✅ Change login methods yourself
✅ Update organizational memberships without contacting support
We’re especially excited about the profile reboot, which includes new customization options many of you have been asking for! 🥰
The KCWorks repository hit a major milestone this week--we officially have over 40,000 publicly visible records! 🎉
Thank you to our incredible community for contributing your works--this milestone reflects your commitment to sharing knowledge and supporting one another. 🫶
Another day, another report of a for-profit academic website exploiting user data 🙄😫
Create an account on Knowledge Commons today--we're a nonprofit network where users can create websites, upload works to our open access repository, and so much more. And guess what? We don't sell your data! 💖
Get started: https://hcommons.org/
Our final #ResearchSpotlight this month looks at how feminist and anarchist movements have long shared a vision of freedom—challenging patriarchy, hierarchy, and oppression in all forms. Discover how these radical traditions continue to inspire new ways of organizing, imagining, and building collective power: https://works.hcommons.org/records/z70xx-ycx29#
Today’s #ResearchSpotlight celebrates Psyche Williams-Forson’s “Chit'lins and Champagne: Food, Class, and Sexuality in Ann Allen Shockley’s Loving Her,” examining how food culture shapes expressions of Black femininity, pleasure, and power. Savor the analysis here: https://works.hcommons.org/records/ca63t-2y887
🍀 Sometimes the best research discoveries feel a little like luck.
When scholarship is shared openly, it becomes easier for scholars, students, and communities to find the ideas that inspire their work.
That’s the power of open knowledge.
#KnowledgeCommons #OpenResearch #OpenAccess #Humanities #ScholarlyCommunication
This #ResearchSpotlight examines postmodern chinoiserie in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese, tracing how comics engage questions of race, representation, and identity. Read more: https://works.hcommons.org/records/284q8-59s90
Fun fact: did you know Knowledge Commons is a fully academy-run project? 😀 We're a small team based out of Michigan State University, but our team is spread all across the globe. 🌎
Learn more about Knowledge Commons here: https://about.hcommons.org/
What are the perks of becoming a KC user champion, you ask?! 😃
Along with supporting us, user champions receive special perks like merch, custom domains, and priority technical support. It's a pretty cool program, if we do say so ourselves. 😇
Learn more here: https://about.hcommons.org/kc-champions/
I spy a familiar face in the Invenio showcase! 🔍️ https://inveniosoftware.org/showcase/
KCWorks is now featured amongst many other wonderful projects in the Invenio showcase! 👏
🍀 Sometimes the best moments in research feel like a little bit of luck.
Maybe it’s discovering the exact article you’ve been searching for, connecting with someone working on a similar idea, or stumbling across a source that completely changes your perspective.
Platforms like Knowledge Commons help make those moments happen more often by supporting open scholarship and connecting humanities researchers across institutions and disciplines.
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/
One of the most popular features of Knowledge Commons are the Wordpress sites our users can create for free! 👾
They're used across our platform for portfolios, journals, and so much more. Learn more: https://youtube.com/shorts/SDGKJTqBd4E?feature=share
This Women’s History Month, our #ResearchSpotlight series honors the voices and scholarship of women whose work continues to shape history, culture, and knowledge. Explore open-access research celebrating women’s contributions across disciplines.
🍀 Feeling lucky this March?
The real pot of gold isn’t hidden at the end of a rainbow — it’s in open research and stronger scholarly connections.
When scholars share knowledge openly, discoveries travel farther, collaborations grow, and communities benefit.
That’s the kind of gold we’re after.
#OpenResearch #OpenScholarship #Humanities #KnowledgeCommons
This April, our #ResearchSpotlight shines on financial literacy — exploring open-access research that empowers communities with tools for economic equity, sustainable futures, and informed decision-making. Discover, read, and share knowledge for financial empowerment.
For Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting work at the intersection of disability justice and feminist thought. This #ResearchSpotlight shows how rethinking the design of everyday academic life can transform access, knowledge, and belonging: https://works.hcommons.org/records/syvy5-1qs56
This #ResearchSpotlight highlights how transgender Shakespeare performance opens up new ways of thinking about gender, embodiment, and identity on stage. Celebrate Women’s History Month by exploring this conversation with performer Jess Chanliau on identities in flux and trans-inclusive performance:https://works.hcommons.org/records/vdt8x-eq781
Sometimes “luck” in research isn’t random — it’s created.
When knowledge is openly shared, it becomes easier to discover, easier to use, and easier to build upon. That’s what helps ideas travel further and have a greater impact.
We’re proud to support a space where humanities research can be shared openly and reach the audiences it deserves. 🍀
This #ResearchSpotlight examines how digital spaces and creative self-expression fuel feminist resistance—transforming visual culture into a site of empowerment, critique, and reclamation.
Read the full study here: https://works.hcommons.org/records/gyb5v-bzv71
Sometimes the best research luck is simply making scholarship open and easy to find. 🍀
When humanities research is shared openly, it has the chance to reach more readers, spark new conversations, and travel further than expected.
Today’s #ResearchSpotlight reflects on faith, survival, and the intertwined narratives of Black womanhood and liberation in the Caribbean, illuminating how spirituality becomes a source of strength and self-definition. Dive deeper into this work: https://works.hcommons.org/records/dj5d8-m1g51
Great research doesn’t happen by luck alone.
It starts with curiosity, grows through discovery, and becomes even more powerful through connection and shared ideas.
Platforms like Knowledge Commons help bring scholars together so research can travel further and inspire new conversations.
Sometimes the real “luck” in research is simply having the right community to share it with. 🍀
📚 Today is #GiveGreenDay at Michigan State University!
If you care about open knowledge, community scholarship, and building shared resources beyond paywalls, please consider supporting the Knowledge Commons. Your donation helps sustain tools and infrastructure that scholars, students, and communities use to collaborate and share research openly.
Every contribution helps strengthen a more accessible and equitable knowledge ecosystem.
Donate and learn more: https://givingto.msu.edu/causes-to-support/crowdpower/knowledge-commons
Did you know that KC Champions receive exclusive merch and access to custom domains, among other benefits? 😍
Learn more: https://about.hcommons.org/kc-champions/
💡 Institutional repositories are an increasingly crucial part of the contemporary digital intellectual environment.💡
Knowledge Commons is a nonprofit, member-governed organization, and institutions that adopt KCWorks as their institutional repository will benefit both from non-extractive pricing and from having a voice in the future development of the platform. Learn more: https://join.hcommons.org/
Today’s #ResearchSpotlight for AAPI Heritage Month reflects on "The Lowland" as a meditation on borders, memory, and the shifting meanings of home—tracing how diasporic lives unfold across distance, loss, and connection. Explore the full work here: https://works.hcommons.org/records/cg6ja-1xb63
This May, our #ResearchSpotlight celebrates Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month by highlighting scholarship that uplifts those voices and histories.These works explore narratives and movements shaping communities and futures. Discover & share research that honors these experiences.
Today’s #ResearchSpotlight centers APIDA/A youths in Michigan, tracing how identity, community, and belonging are shaped across local and diasporic contexts highlighting cultural voices and lived realities that often remain underrepresented in regional narratives. Read more: https://works.hcommons.org/records/ty0b6-yce12