MediaCommons

In collaboration with the Institute for the Future of the Book, and with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, DLTS has created a set of networking tools that serve MediaCommons, an all-electronic scholarly publishing network in the humanities. This set of tools, which bring together the functions of e-portfolio software, social networking systems, and electronic publishing platforms, enables participants using MediaCommons to find one another, collaborate, and disseminate their work in new ways. Within this social network, scholars are able to make available a wide range of their work, including published texts ranging from the monograph to the article, works-in-progress, blogs and other more informal online writing, and other activities that often go unnoticed as forms of scholarly production, such as reviews of other scholars’ work, syllabi, and other teaching resources.