On the NEH and Our Path Forward – Knowledge Commons
peter.suber's bookmarks 2025-04-18
Summary:
"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 — if not yet formal — notification that our contract to provide the NEH’s Designated Public-Access Repository was also being terminated, effective on that date. This loss is devastating for us, both for the financial impact it represents (another $200,000 loss over the same two years) 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...."