“MLA Parternering with CUNY in Important Scholarly Communications Initiative: Commons in a Box”

Nov 28, 2011- Jason Baird Jackson, Associate Professor of Folklore and American Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.

Jason Baird Jackson sees the potential of partnering directly with universities in the development of tools, protocols, strategies, and projects in the scholarly communications:

This project brings together the open source tools already being used by CUNY Academic Commons and will make them available and easily installable at other institutions. For the MLA and its 30K+ members, these software tools will be the basis for MLA Commons.