Mellon Foundation Supports Humanities through Open Access, Open Source and Not-for-Profit
The Modern Language Assocation (MLA) Commons launched in early 2013 as a platform for communication among MLA members, enabling them to share work with one another, to participate in discussion groups, and to create a range of formal and informal publications.
But our members work in increasingly interdisciplinary ways, and they let us know very quickly that they were interested in collaborating and communicating with colleagues in other fields across the humanities.
So...we began exploring the technical and organizational requirements and, with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are happy to have launched a pilot of Humanities Commons with our society partners, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the Association for Jewish Studies, and (coming soon) the College Art Association...