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Bonnie<p>One more good read from KCWorks this Open Access Week: "Empowerment and Ambiguity: Female Superheroes and Anti-Heroes in Pop Culture"</p><p><a href="https://works.hcommons.org/records/3cadp-88r21" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">works.hcommons.org/records/3ca</span><span class="invisible">dp-88r21</span></a></p><p>From the abstract: "This research paper explores female superheroes and anti-heroes within contemporary literature, films and comics, marking a significant shift in gender dynamics and narrative structures. It aims to investigate how they reimagine traditional female archetypes, contributing to broader cultural and social discourses on empowerment, identity, and morality. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the paper integrates methodologies from comparative literature, cultural studies, and feminist theory to uncover the evolving portrayal of female characters who embody the roles of heroes and anti-heroes in selected works."</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/openaccessweek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openaccessweek</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openaccess</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/superheroes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>superheroes</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/KnowledgeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KnowledgeCommons</span></a></p>
Bonnie<p>Another great deposit in KCWorks from some folks at Punctum Books: Open or Proprietary? AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response</p><p><a href="https://works.hcommons.org/records/6ftf4-5xg24" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">works.hcommons.org/records/6ft</span><span class="invisible">f4-5xg24</span></a></p><p>"How can these OA publishers have a better view of how their publications are used with regard to the terms of their licenses, primarily in relation to commercial reuse (even while recognizing that there could never have a complete view, and that's okay)? How can OA publishers better monitor usage by nonhuman readers (AI bots) and the corporations to which they are tethered? How can they strategize to better confront and negotiate the massive extraction of profit from the scholarly labor OA presses and their authors produce and transmit, now and in the future?"</p><p>Worth a read. </p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openaccess</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/openaccessweek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openaccessweek</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/KnowledgeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KnowledgeCommons</span></a></p>
Bonnie<p>One of the things I love about working on Knowledge Commons is seeing some of the deposits we get to KCWorks, our open access repository.</p><p>This essay, "Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich?," is one of my favorites of the week. The description is "An essay discussing the nature of definitions, using hotdogs as an illustrative example" and I'll be honest, it was both entertaining and educational. </p><p>Check it out.</p><p><a href="https://works.hcommons.org/records/7sqf0-q1y18" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">works.hcommons.org/records/7sq</span><span class="invisible">f0-q1y18</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/openaccessweek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openaccessweek</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openaccess</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/hotdog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hotdog</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/sandwich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sandwich</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/KnowledgeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KnowledgeCommons</span></a></p>
OpenAIRE<p>Part 2 | From Open Access to Open Agency</p><p>23 Oct | 16:00–17:00 CEST 👉 <a href="https://www.openaire.eu/eventdetail/1516/knowledge-commons-cafe-part-2-from-open-access-to-open-agency" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openaire.eu/eventdetail/1516/k</span><span class="invisible">nowledge-commons-cafe-part-2-from-open-access-to-open-agency</span></a></p><p>Let’s rethink trust, ownership &amp; openness together.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KnowledgeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KnowledgeCommons</span></a></p>
Bernhard Huss<p>New Terms and Conditions of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a>.edu are simply unacceptable. I’ll try to move things to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ResearchGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchGate</span></a> and, hopefully, to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/KnowledgeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KnowledgeCommons</span></a> (hcommons.org) and then very probably delete my academia account completely.</p>
penworks<p>When you hear someone say that "AI is the future of search" as if it is a great thing, and a foregone conclusion, what they are actually saying is that the doors to any individual blog or website or resources are closing. The digital waypaths to finding sourced content directly are being shuttered and boarded up. That human search via multiple methods utilising various recommender systems is being removed. In favour of a single gateway to pre delivered materials all owned by private monopoly companies. And we are expected to react as if this is a good thing, the "future".</p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/openai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openai</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/archives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archives</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/KnowledgeEquity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KnowledgeEquity</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/knowledgecommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>knowledgecommons</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>search</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>Update. Bad news from the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NEH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NEH</span></a> for <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/KnowledgeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KnowledgeCommons</span></a> (and the rest of us).<br><a href="https://about.hcommons.org/2025/04/17/on-the-neh-and-our-path-forward/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">about.hcommons.org/2025/04/17/</span><span class="invisible">on-the-neh-and-our-path-forward/</span></a></p><p>"On April 2, 2025, we received notification that our NEH Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant, awarded in 2020, was terminated effective immediately…On April 10, 2025, we received further…notification that our contract to provide the NEH’s Designated Public-Access <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Repository" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Repository</span></a> was also being terminated…This loss is devastating…both for the financial impact it represents…but also for the unceremonious end to a goal we’d set for ourselves years ago…Not to mention the bigger picture here: that designated public-access repository is no longer needed, because it is assumed that the NEH will no longer be funding research, and thus there will be no results of research to make publicly accessible."</p><p>PS: All the agencies covered by the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OSTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSTP</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NelsonMemo</span></a> must designate <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> repositories for their OA content. NEH was the only agency to designate a repo not hosted by the govt. All the other agency repos will be hosted by the govt, where they will be subject to political censorship or takedowns.</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DefendResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendResearch</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GreenOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenOA</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Takedowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Takedowns</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>Update. From <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hcommons.social/@kfitz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kfitz</span></a></span>: "Digital Preservation in a Time of Disorder"<br><a href="https://about.hcommons.org/2025/03/19/digital-preservation-in-a-time-of-disorder/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">about.hcommons.org/2025/03/19/</span><span class="invisible">digital-preservation-in-a-time-of-disorder/</span></a></p><p>"<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/KnowledgeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KnowledgeCommons</span></a> has applied for a significant grant from Lever for Change to build, implement, and sustain a digital preservation network that will be free from the US government’s, and any other single government’s, interference…KC is a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/nonprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonprofit</span></a>, community-governed, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> platform for creating and sharing knowledge world-wide…But, in the present moment, our US-centeredness is a significant threat to that mission. We propose to establish three linked but independent nonprofit public-benefit companies incorporated in the US, Europe, and South Africa, all dedicated to the social and technological processes of gathering, preserving, and ensuring the public accessibility of academic research."</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DefendResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendResearch</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Preservation</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Takedowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Takedowns</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
Dr Pen<p>I made a small gift to Wikipedia and you should too. Every little counts.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/donate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>donate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/donations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>donations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/knowledgecommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>knowledgecommons</span></a></p>
Dr Pen<p>We all want an open web, open knowledge, data, science and content (and AI). But when society makes power so unequal, so imbalanced economically, how can we continue like this?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openweb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/knowledgecommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>knowledgecommons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a></p>
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Steve McCarty 🇯🇵

My Website with homepage japanned.hcommons.org/ is at Knowledge Commons, formerly Humanities Commons. They have recently introduced a more detailed KC Works system of metadata and information on research repository deposits. The template of our profile pages allows for self-introductory and networking information as well as our deposits in the KC [Knowledge Commons] Works repository of academic and creative works. I have 85 deposits in a wide range of 25 genres or categories.

The new KC Works system also allows for editing and adding information, so I have gone through the 85 deposits, updating some of them especially to make the content more immediately accessible. Visitors to the deposit pages can usually see a PDF file of the content or download it, but if not, click on the Details tab and then the URL.

My Profile Page including the KCWorks deposits is at hcommons.org/members/stevemcca

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When we teach WW1 history and show photographs of men in the trenches, and no one knows if they are real or midjourney fake then we are in deep trouble. Or teach scientific principles through research papers and don't know if the text is authentic human created or response engine output, we are in deep trouble. Imagine a hundred other contexts and you understand why gen ai is such a massive problem.

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