New Public-Access Repository for Sharing Your Research

Posted February 20, 2025 in Featured News, JMU Libraries News

If you want to share your research beyond our institutional repository, you may be interested to learn about Knowledge Commons Works (KCWorks), which was recently selected as the designated public-access repository of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). KCWorks offers a way for researchers from any discipline to share their research for free.

Public access to research and data is at the heart of the mission of libraries. Toward this mission, JMU Libraries is a participating organization in Knowledge Commons, the creators of KCWorks. Use of this repository will fulfill the NEH’s commitment to making federally-funded research freely available without delay, as noted in the 2022 Nelson Memorandum from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Knowledge Commons (formerly known as Humanities Commons) was launched in 2016 to provide an open-access, open-source, community-governed platform on which scholars across the humanities and around the world can create rich professional profiles, participate in discussion groups, create WordPress websites, and deposit and share their work in a fully integrated library-grade repository.

KCWorks, which launched in October 2024, hosts more than 30,000 open-access works, each of which is automatically connected with the creator’s Knowledge Commons profile.

For more information, please see the KCWorks Named Designated Public-Access Repository of the National Endowment for the Humanities.