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.expub: Exploring Expanded Publishing

2025, Tommaso Campagna, Marta Ceccarelli, Carolina Valente Pinto

.expub | exploring expanded publishing is the final publication of a two-year collaborative project exploring the infrastructures, politics,...

Etherport

Etherport is a tool for cultural organisations to make more experimental, multi-voiced, and non-linear event reports. By integrating the entire...

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

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Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies

2021, Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox

Aesthetic Programming asks “how power differentials are implicit in code in terms of binary logic, hierarchies, naming of the...

GitLab

Hosting for Git repositories which can be turned into static sites for monograph publications. Able to include live code snippets which can be run...

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Pelican

Pelican is a static site generator written in Python that requires no database or server-side logic. It allows the user to make a site by writing...

paged.js

Paged.js is a free and open source JavaScript library that paginates content in the browser to create PDF output from any HTML content. This means...

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Forking

Forking is a form of computational publishing that involves creating a derivative version of a previously published text or book to make revisions...

Translating

Translating is inherently experimental because it requires the approximation of meaning through trial and error. Translating experiments have the...

Versioning

Versioning (also known as processual, iterative, or continuous publishing), as a concept and practice used within academic research and...

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Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies (Ciston & Marino fork)

2021, Sarah Ciston and Mark C. Marino

A fork of Soon & Cox's Aesthetic Programming with an additional chapter 8.5 and additional features throughout.

GitLab

Hosting for Git repositories which can be turned into static sites for monograph publications. Able to include live code snippets which can be run...

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Forking

Forking is a form of computational publishing that involves creating a derivative version of a previously published text or book to make revisions...

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Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies (Traditional Chinese fork)

2022, Winnie Soon, Geoff Cox, Tzu Tung Lee, Ren Yu, and Shih-yu Hsu

A fork of Soon & Cox's Aesthetic Programming translating the whole text into Traditional Chinese

GitLab

Hosting for Git repositories which can be turned into static sites for monograph publications. Able to include live code snippets which can be run...

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Forking

Forking is a form of computational publishing that involves creating a derivative version of a previously published text or book to make revisions...

Translating

Translating is inherently experimental because it requires the approximation of meaning through trial and error. Translating experiments have the...

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after.video

A video book consisting of a paperback book and video stored on a Raspberry Pi computer packaged in a VHS case.

Licensing

Copyright licensing determines the rights for the publication, distribution, and use of research on a spectrum from completely closed fully...

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Annotation

2021, Remi H. Kalir and Antero Garcia

PubPub

Supports community-based collaborative drafting, review, and publication of scholarly work "using an integrated and iterative process".

Hypothesis

Browser-based tool for making annotations on web pages. Can be integrated with other tools / platforms, functions as an overlay on existing...

Annotating

Annotations, notes scribbled in the margins or digitally overlain, spin out from a source text, adding layers of meaning, interpretations,...

Reviewing

Evaluation of research by the scholarly community is essential to conducting and publishing research. In response to changing publication formats...

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As I Remember It: Teachings (Ɂəms tɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder

2019, Elsie Paul with Davis McKenzie, Paige Raibmon, and Harmony Johnson

This media-rich, multi-path book offers a rare glimpse into the life of a Coast Salish woman and the history and lifeways of her people. It...

Scalar

Enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with text in a variety of ways with minimal technical expertise required....

TK Labels

The Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels are an initiative for Indigenous communities and local organizations. Developed through sustained...

Acknowledging

Preserving

Preservation aims to keep valuable objects safe from harm. Experiment, by contrast, implies potential failure and the possibility that value is...

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

Licensing

Copyright licensing determines the rights for the publication, distribution, and use of research on a spectrum from completely closed fully...

Translating

Translating is inherently experimental because it requires the approximation of meaning through trial and error. Translating experiments have the...

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Basic Internet Security

2011, FLOSS Manuals

A collaboratively-produced book written in a Book Sprint by members of FLOSS Manuals, an open and voluntary organisation of approx. 3000...

Booktype

Free and open source software for authoring, collaborating, editing, and publishing books as PDF, ePub, mobi, and HTML.

(No longer maintained)

Collaborative writing

Academic publishing and reward structures are set up to reproduce individualised, liberal humanist forms of authorship. Experiments with more...

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Forking

Forking is a form of computational publishing that involves creating a derivative version of a previously published text or book to make revisions...

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Book of Anonymity

2021, Anon Collective

The Book of Anonymity is written in the tradition of author-less texts. Editing and contributing anonymously constitute experiments in...

Collaborative writing

Academic publishing and reward structures are set up to reproduce individualised, liberal humanist forms of authorship. Experiments with more...

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Boxes: A Field Guide

2020, Susanne Bauer, Martina Schlünder, Maria Rentezi

Gathered in the format of a field guide, Boxes offers an introduction to ways of ordering the world, unpacking their boxed-up, largely...

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

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By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism

2016, Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shrestova, Liana Gamber-Thompson, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Arely Zimmerman

Open Square is NYU Press’s platform for publishing and reading open access books. A browser-based reading platform, Open Square enables us to...

Open Square

Open Square is NYU Press’s platform for publishing and reading open access books. A browser-based reading platform, Open Square enables us to...

Readium

The fundamental goal of the Readium project is to produce a set of robust, performant, spec-compliant reading system toolkits that support digital...

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Campus Medius: Digital Mapping in Cultural and Media Studies

2022, Simon Ganahl

Campus Medius explores and expands the possibilities of digital cartography in cultural and media studies. Simon Ganahl documents the...

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Versioning

Versioning (also known as processual, iterative, or continuous publishing), as a concept and practice used within academic research and...

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Citizen Science Skilling for Library Staff, Researchers, and the Public

2021, LIBER Citizen Science Working Group

A practical guide designed to assist those organising and participating in a citizen science project to get the most out of the experience. The...

JupyterLab

JupyterLab is the a web-based interactive development environment for Jupyter Notebook files, code, and data. Its flexible interface allows users...

Jupyter Book

Front-end software for producing monograph publications from computational material including Markdown, reStructuredText, Jupytext, or Jupyter...

Jupyter Notebook

File format for creating and sharing computational documents. A popular choice for authors putting together documents with live, interactive code...

GitHub Pages

Static site generator using Jekyll to publish Git repositories as websites. Easily adapted to hosted a website for a monograph publication with a...

Vivliostyle

An open source project for a new typesetting system fitting for digital and web publishing based on the latest web standard technology.

Versioning

Versioning (also known as processual, iterative, or continuous publishing), as a concept and practice used within academic research and...

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Code Version 2.0

2006, Lawrence Lessig

Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace was published in 1999. The book quickly began to define a certain vocabulary for thinking...

MediaWiki

Collaboration and publishing platform used to run Wikipedia. Easily adaptable to monograph publishing and can incorporate a range of rich digital...

Licensing

Copyright licensing determines the rights for the publication, distribution, and use of research on a spectrum from completely closed fully...

Versioning

Versioning (also known as processual, iterative, or continuous publishing), as a concept and practice used within academic research and...

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Combination Acts. Notes on Collective Practice in the Undercommons

2019, Stevphen Shukaitis

Published by Minor Compositions under a tailored variant of a copy(far)left license.

Licensing

Copyright licensing determines the rights for the publication, distribution, and use of research on a spectrum from completely closed fully...

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Construção de conhecimento no curso da pandemia de COVID-19: Aspectos biomédicos, clínico-assistenciais, epidemiológicos e sociais

2020, Manoel Barral-Netto, Maurício L. Barreto, Elzo Pereira Pinto Junior, Erika Aragão

Com o objetivo de sistematizar um produto acadêmico com conhecimentos sobre a pandemia da covid-19, pesquisadores da Rede CoVida lançam um...

Versioning

Versioning (also known as processual, iterative, or continuous publishing), as a concept and practice used within academic research and...

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Conversations

2015, Femke Snelting, Christoph Haag

Conversations is an extensive collection of dialogues between developers and designers involved in the wider ecosystem of Libre...

etherpash

A custom Libre Graphics workflow. The etherpash workflow utilizes a custom ad hoc markup based on the desire to edit content in a simple manner,...

(No longer maintained)

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

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Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork

2021, Whitney Trettien

Cut/Copy/Paste explores the relations between fragments, history, books, and media. It does so by scouting out fringe maker cultures of the...

Manifold

Large-scale publishing platform for publishing text and accompanying digital resources. Able to incorporate a range of rich digital media. Strong...

Versioning

Versioning (also known as processual, iterative, or continuous publishing), as a concept and practice used within academic research and...

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Cyborg: Engineering the body electric

1995, Diane Greco

Diane Greco explores the significance of the cyborg in 20th century writing. from Thomas Pynchon and William Gibson to Haraway and Derrida. The...

Storyspace

Storyspace is a tool for complex, interlinked narrative, both fiction and nonfiction. Twenty years ago, the original Storyspace ushered in the era...

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

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Dear Science and Other Stories

2021, Katherine McKittrick

Dear Science and Other Stories is a book that experiments with foregrounding footnotes and references in an ongoing conversation with...

Referencing

Referencing, citing, crediting, and acknowledging are crucial practices to make connections to previous research, to support argumentation, and to...

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cover for Denis Diderot ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ – ‘Le Neveu de Rameau’: A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition

Denis Diderot ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ – ‘Le Neveu de Rameau’: A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition

2016, Denis Diderot

Incorporates specially-recorded musical pieces into the body of the text, offering a sensory and scholarly evocation of Diderot’s work for a...

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Translating

Translating is inherently experimental because it requires the approximation of meaning through trial and error. Translating experiments have the...

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Ecological Rewriting: Situated Engagements with The Chernobyl Herbarium

2023, Gabriela Méndez Cota

Ecological Rewriting: Situated Engagements with The Chernobyl Herbarium is the first book in the Combinatorial Books: Gathering...

HedgeDoc (formerly CodiMD)

Web based collaborative real-time editor and documentation management project.

PubPub

Supports community-based collaborative drafting, review, and publication of scholarly work "using an integrated and iterative process".

Hypothesis

Browser-based tool for making annotations on web pages. Can be integrated with other tools / platforms, functions as an overlay on existing...

Annotating

Annotations, notes scribbled in the margins or digitally overlain, spin out from a source text, adding layers of meaning, interpretations,...

Referencing

Referencing, citing, crediting, and acknowledging are crucial practices to make connections to previous research, to support argumentation, and to...

Remixing

Remix includes creating derivatives of 'original' works through reuse, adaptation, transformation, and modification. Remix practices in...

Reviewing

Evaluation of research by the scholarly community is essential to conducting and publishing research. In response to changing publication formats...

Rewriting

Rewriting involves the practice of re-envisioning an already existing text without (necessarily) intervening into the original source text. It...

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Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen: Dritte, überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage

2018, Roland Schäfer

The volume Einführung in die grammatische Beschreibung des Deutschen like many Language Science Press titles, is published in a form...

docloop

docloop turns feedback into tasks, converting online annotations of a document into issues in the author's bug tracking system. It works with...

(Minimally maintained)

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

GitHub Pages

Static site generator using Jekyll to publish Git repositories as websites. Easily adapted to hosted a website for a monograph publication with a...

PaperHive

A coworking hub for academic researchers enabling collaborative annotation of documents.

Annotating

Annotations, notes scribbled in the margins or digitally overlain, spin out from a source text, adding layers of meaning, interpretations,...

Reviewing

Evaluation of research by the scholarly community is essential to conducting and publishing research. In response to changing publication formats...

Versioning

Versioning (also known as processual, iterative, or continuous publishing), as a concept and practice used within academic research and...

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En Busca del Quelite Perdido

2016, Gabriela Méndez Cota, Luz Elvira Torres and Ángela Arziniaga

En busca del quelite perdido es un libro acerca de Cholula que se compone de un ensayo testimonial, un archivo fotográfico y un recetario. En...

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Enchanting the Desert: A Pattern Language for the Production of Space

2016, Nicholas Bauch

Enchanting the Desert published by Stanford University Press is the geographical revival of Henry Peabody's travelling Grand Canyon slide-show...

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

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