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Sorting the compendium by practice (annotating, collaborative writing, forking, remixing, reviewing, translating, versioning) provides inspiration on how-to make experimental books.

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Annotating

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

Manifold

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

FidusWriter

Web based collaborative text editor made for academics with support for citations and formulas.

PubPub

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

Scalar

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

Pressbooks

A WordPress-based book content management system which produces multiple formats: ebooks, webbooks, print-ready PDF, and various XML flavours.

Hypothesis

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

Recogito

A web-based environment for collaborative semantic annotation. It is open source software and provides support for working with either text or...

(Minimally maintained)

eMargin

An online collaborative annotation tool. You can highlight, colour-code, write notes and assign tags to individual words or passages of a text....

(No longer maintained)

Annotation Studio

A suite of collaborative web-based annotation tools currently under development at MIT.

CATMA

With CATMA you can easily annotate your text just as you would do in a book.

Fulcrum

Host open access books in a values-based open source environment? Help your authors publish their interactive scholarly work without breaking the...

Pundit Annotator

With Pundit Annotator you can highlight or comment on any text on the web. It is the perfect tool for your work, research, study. Pundit Annotator...

(Minimally maintained)

CommentPress

CommentPress is an open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph-by-paragraph,...

Open Monograph Press

Open Monograph Press is an open source software platform for managing and publishing scholarly books. It can be used for managing the editorial...

Mirador

Open-source, web based, multi-window image viewing platform with the ability to zoom, display, compare and annotate images from around the world.

Digital Mappa

An open-source digital humanities program for open-access workspaces, projects and publications

(Minimally maintained)

Enhanced Networked Monographs

Enhanced Networked Monographs (ENM) is an experimental publishing project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A collaboration between NYU...

(Minimally maintained)

WebAnno

WebAnno is a general purpose web-based annotation tool for a wide range of linguistic annotations including various layers of morphological,...

(No longer maintained)

INCEpTION

A semantic annotation platform offering intelligent assistance and knowledge management. The annotation of specific semantic phenomena often...

Taguette

Taguette is a free and open-source tool for qualitative research. You can import your research materials, highlight and tag quotes, and export the results!

brat rapid annotation tool

brat is a web-based tool for text annotation; that is, for adding notes to existing text documents. brat is designed in particular for structured...

(No longer maintained)

TextAE

An embeddable editor for text annotation. TextAE can be embedded in a HTML document.

Dokieli

dokieli is a clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions.

Annotorious

JavaScript image library to add drawing, commenting and labeling capabilities to any website.

RecogitoJS

A JavaScript library for text annotation

(Minimally maintained)

PDFAnno

Linguistic Annotation and Visualization Tool for PDF Documents

(No longer maintained)

neonion

neonion is a user-centered, web application for the collaborative annotation of texts developed at the Human-Centered Computing group at Freie...

(No longer maintained)

AnnotateIt

A project for web annotation. Superseded by Hypothesis.

(No longer maintained)

PaperHive

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

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...

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)

Motion Bank

An annotation tool for video and image material designed specifically for annotating dance videos as part of choreography. Combines two previous...

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Annotation

2021, Remi H. Kalir and Antero Garcia

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Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy

2011, Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Planned Obsolescence springs from the author Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication...

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Glas

1986, Jacques Derrida

Glas extensively reworks the problems of reading and writing in philosophy and literature; questions the possibility of linear reading...

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Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University

2019, Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Developed in an open way by a process of community review, still using the CommentPress plugin, but now on the Humanities Commons platform:...

Frankenbook

2018, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenbook is a collective reading and collaborative annotation experience of the original 1818 text of Frankenstein; or, The Modern...

The Ethnographic Case

2017, Emily Yates-Doerr and Christine Labuski

The Ethnographic Case is an experimental, online, Open Access book, that invites readers to interact with it in a process of post-publication...

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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...

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Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading

2014, Christopher P. Long

Recently, I have been working on two performative publications. The first, my enhanced digital book to be published by Cambridge University...

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...

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Collaborative writing

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

Jupyter Notebook

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

Manifold

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

Etherpad

Web based collaborative real-time editor.

HedgeDoc (formerly CodiMD)

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

Cryptpad

Privacy-by-design project management suite of web-based collaborative tools (text, code, presentation, sheet, poll, todo, whiteboard).

ONLYOFFICE

A complete office productivity suite.

FidusWriter

Web based collaborative text editor made for academics with support for citations and formulas.

JupyterLite

A full JupyterLab distribution running in the browser.

PubPub

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

Overleaf

A collaborative cloud-based LaTeX editor used for writing, editing, and publishing scientific documents

Wikibooks

Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia...

Wikisource

Wikisource is an online digital library of free-content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikisource is the name of...

Ketida (formerly Editoria)

A web-based tool for producing scholarly monographs in both print and ebook forms.

Scalar

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

Sandpoints

Git, Gitea, Hugo, Markdown editor integration for collaborative writing and publishing

(No longer maintained)

TypeMill

An open-source flat-file CMS for text-driven websites, can be used to produce eBooks via plugin (implementation of paged.js).

Bookdown

An open-source R package that facilitates writing books and long-form articles/reports with R Markdown, a markup language easier to learn than...

Pressbooks

A WordPress-based book content management system which produces multiple formats: ebooks, webbooks, print-ready PDF, and various XML flavours.

Quire

Quire offers an elegant and affordable digital publishing solution ideal for creating dynamic publications in a variety of formats, including web,...

Stylo

A text editor that simplifies writing and editing scientific articles in the Human and Social Sciences. It is designed for authors and publishers...

Storyspace

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

MediaWiki

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

XWiki

Xwiki is an open source wiki platform for collaborative writing and knowledge sharing.

Wiki.js

Open source and extensible wiki software designed for sharing technical documentation.

DokuWiki

DokuWiki is a simple to use and highly versatile open source wiki software that doesn't require a database. It is loved by users for its clean and...

BookStack

BookStack is a simple, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.

octomode

Octomode is a collective editing space for PDF making, using Etherpad, Paged.js and Flask.

Ethertoff

Ethertoff is a simple collaborative web platform, much resembling a wiki but featuring realtime editing thanks to Etherpad. Its output is...

etherdump

Tool to help manage periodic publishing of etherpads to static files, preserving metadata. Uses the etherpad API (and so it requires having the...

(Minimally maintained)

Pad2Print

Pad2Print is a collaborative printed document layout tool in the web browser. It uses pads on which it is possible to edit the CSS and allows a...

(No longer maintained)

wiki-to-print

wiki-to-print is a continuum of projects built around the idea of a collective publishing environment based on MediaWiki software, Paged Media CSS...

Living Books About Life

This book series published by Open Humanities Press ‘repackaged’ previously published open access content into curated edited collections. The...

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Speculate This!

2013, Uncertain Commons

As a collaborative work coauthored by a group of anonymous scholars, Speculate This! argues for and embodies affirmative speculation. A short,...

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Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation

2018, The Multigraph Collective

The Multigraph Collective is a team of twenty-two scholars at sixteen universities in Canada, the US, and the UK. Its members are Mark...

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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...

The Turing Way: A Handbook for Reproducible Data Science

2019, The Turing Way Community

The Turing Way is an open source community-driven guide to reproducible, ethical, inclusive and collaborative data science. Its goal is to...

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Phone & Spear: A Yut̲a Anthropology

2019, Miyarrka Media

Building on a ten-year collaboration by the community-based arts collective Miyarrka Media, the project is an experiment in the anthropology of...

Performing Archive: Curtis + “the vanishing race”

2018, Jacqueline Wernmont, Heather Blackmore, David Kim, Ulia Popova, Beatrice Schuster, Amy Borsuk

Created as a pilot project for the Claremont Center for Digital Humanities, Performing Archive: Edward S. Curtis + ‘the vanishing...

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...

Energy Worlds in Experiment

2021, James Maguire, Laura Watts, Brit Ross Winthereik

Energy Worlds in Experiment is an experiment in writing about energy and an exploration of energy infrastructures as experiments....

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Computational publishing

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

Curvenote

Publishing frontend for Jupyter Notebook with an emphasis on data science publishing. enables easy inclusion of equations, formulae, graphs,...

Electric Book

A suite of software and templates that produce static sites for book publications from Markdown documents using Jekyll. Able to output as a...

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...

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...

Jupyter Notebook

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

Jupyter Book

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

Manifold

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

MediaWiki

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

JupyterLite

A full JupyterLab distribution running in the browser.

PubPub

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

Quarto

Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc. It can create dynamic content with Python, R, Julia, and...

Storyspace

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

Netlify

Publish incredibly high performance websites and applications right from GitHub. The Netlify platform connects your repositories to an all-in-one...

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...

ACLS Workbench

A fork of Scalar that promoted scholarly collaboration by allowing scholars to "create, join, or clone online arguments enhanced with multimedia content".

(No longer maintained)

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...

JupyterLab

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

Binder

Binder is a web-based executable environment for running Jupyter Notebook files and creating computational documents.

ServPub

ServPub is an experimental platform for research and practice on experimental and computational publishing, to reflect collectively on affective...

Juncture

Juncture is a suite of tools and services that enable anyone to easily create engaging web pages with rich visualizations, including interactive...

Pandoc

Pandoc is a universal document converter. If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife.

Etherbox

Etherbox is a constellation of collective tools and practices that developed in and around Constant. The current release of Etherbox consists of...

(No longer maintained)

etherdump

Tool to help manage periodic publishing of etherpads to static files, preserving metadata. Uses the etherpad API (and so it requires having the...

(Minimally maintained)

NeuroLibre

NeuroLibre is a powerful preprint server for reproducible neuroscience notebooks that seamlessly integrate data, code, runtime, text and...

Ghost

Ghost is an application for publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website,...

Twine

An open source tool for telling interactive nonlinear stories without requiring coding. Can run in desktop app or in web browser.

PECE (Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography)

The Platform for Experimental, Collaborative Ethnography (PECE: pronounced “peace”) is an open source (Drupal-based) digital platform that...

pan.do/ra

pan.do/ra is a free, open source media archive platform. It allows you to manage large, decentralized collections of video, to collaboratively...

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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...

The Turing Way: A Handbook for Reproducible Data Science

2019, The Turing Way Community

The Turing Way is an open source community-driven guide to reproducible, ethical, inclusive and collaborative data science. Its goal is to...

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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...

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Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames

2017, Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux

Boluk and LeMieux shine a hundred spotlights on play’s diversity in, on, around, between, through, and without video games. Their wildly...

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

2016, Nicholas Bauch

Enchanting the Desert is the geographical revival of Henry Peabody's travelling Grand Canyon slide-show made in the early part of the twentieth...

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Socrates in the labyrinth: Hypertext, Argument, Philosophy

1994, David Kolb

Socrates in the Labyrinth is a wide-ranging exploration of the relationships between hypertext, thought, and argument. Does hypertext present...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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

The CryptoParty Handbook

2013, CryptoParty

A handbook of computer and internet security and a practical guide for CryptoParties. Created as a GitHub repository by forking two existing...

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...

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Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}

2015, Jessica Pressman, Mark C. Marino, and Jeremy Douglass

Reading Project had an online companion to the print book built in ACLS Workbench for cloning, forking, and building upon the original text.

Conversations

2015, Femke Snelting, Christoph Haag

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

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Designing

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

Etherpad

Web based collaborative real-time editor.

Vivliostyle

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

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...

Juncture

Juncture is a suite of tools and services that enable anyone to easily create engaging web pages with rich visualizations, including interactive...

octomode

Octomode is a collective editing space for PDF making, using Etherpad, Paged.js and Flask.

Ether2HTML

Skeleton to design a webpage (for screen or print) collectively and synchronously using Etherpad, a collaborative text editor. It uses the...

(Minimally maintained)

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)

Etherbox

Etherbox is a constellation of collective tools and practices that developed in and around Constant. The current release of Etherbox consists of...

(No longer maintained)

Pad2Print

Pad2Print is a collaborative printed document layout tool in the web browser. It uses pads on which it is possible to edit the CSS and allows a...

(No longer maintained)

Ghost

Ghost is an application for publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website,...

Processing

Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within...

wiki-to-print

wiki-to-print is a continuum of projects built around the idea of a collective publishing environment based on MediaWiki software, Paged Media CSS...

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Writing Machines

2002, N. Katherine Hayles

Tracing a journey from the 1950s through the 1990s, N. Katherine Hayles uses the autobiographical persona of Kaye to explore how literature has...

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Rhythm Science

2004, Paul D. Miller

Miller’s textual provocations are designed for maximum visual and tactile seduction by the international studio COMA (Cornelia Blatter and...

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The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects

2008, Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, and Jerome Angel

Fiore described The Medium is the Massage as having ‘no “original” manuscript. The idea was to select some of McLuhan’s ideas from previous...

Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene

2021, Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou

Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects....

Performing Archive: Curtis + “the vanishing race”

2018, Jacqueline Wernmont, Heather Blackmore, David Kim, Ulia Popova, Beatrice Schuster, Amy Borsuk

Created as a pilot project for the Claremont Center for Digital Humanities, Performing Archive: Edward S. Curtis + ‘the vanishing...

Photomediations: An Open Book

2015, Joanna Zylinska, Kamila Kuc, Jonathan Shaw, Ross Varney, Michael Wamposzyc

Photomediations: An Open Book was an experiment in open and hybrid publishing, as well as a celebration of the book as living object....

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...

Conversations

2015, Femke Snelting, Christoph Haag

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

Mutant Assembly

2022, Assembly of Mutants

Mutant Assembly grew out of an assembly of artists, writers, dancers and researchers departing from Senegal’s post-independence,...

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...

Energy Worlds in Experiment

2021, James Maguire, Laura Watts, Brit Ross Winthereik

Energy Worlds in Experiment is an experiment in writing about energy and an exploration of energy infrastructures as experiments....

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Glas

1986, Jacques Derrida

Glas extensively reworks the problems of reading and writing in philosophy and literature; questions the possibility of linear reading...

Surfacing

2016, Nicole Starosielski, Erik Loyer, and Shane Brennan

Experimental book that uses Scalar as the backend with Scalar's API feeding a custom UI. In Surfacing, you are a signal traveling across the...

On Publishing: Graphic Designers Who Publish

2020, Christopher Hamamoto and Jon Sueda

A book on publishing and graphic design that encourages readers to generate unique print PDFs for download and home printing: the book can be...

hybrid publishing systems

2023, Alexander Roidl and Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

hybrid publishing systems is a compilation of essays and research that readers can compile into a personal publication and print at home. There...

Printed Web 1–5

2017, Paul Soulellis

Printed Web is an artists' publication devoted to web-to-print art and discourse, published by Paul Soulellis. Artists are invited to submit...

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Forking

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

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.

Subversion

Apache Subversion is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical...

Gitea

Gitea is a software package for hosting software development version control using Git as well as other collaborative features like bug tracking,...

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...

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...

ACLS Workbench

A fork of Scalar that promoted scholarly collaboration by allowing scholars to "create, join, or clone online arguments enhanced with multimedia content".

(No longer maintained)

Sandpoints

Git, Gitea, Hugo, Markdown editor integration for collaborative writing and publishing

(No longer maintained)

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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...

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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.

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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

The CryptoParty Handbook

2013, CryptoParty

A handbook of computer and internet security and a practical guide for CryptoParties. Created as a GitHub repository by forking two existing...

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...

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Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}

2015, Jessica Pressman, Mark C. Marino, and Jeremy Douglass

Reading Project had an online companion to the print book built in ACLS Workbench for cloning, forking, and building upon the original text.

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Licensing

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

Creative Commons License Chooser

The CC license chooser enables authors and contributors to select a Creative Commons license that appropriately reflects their intended use cases....

Attribution Generator

This tool makes it easy to reuse images from Wikipedia and the free media archive Wikimedia Commons. In many cases images on Wikipedia and the...

(Minimally maintained)

ImageCodr.org

With ImageCodr.org, there is no need to format CC license data for Flickr photos, you simply enter in the URL of the picture page (as seen in your...

(Minimally maintained)

flickr cc attribution helper

Makes attributing Flickr Creative Commons photos a simple cut and paste operation

(Minimally maintained)

TK Labels

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

CC4r license

A reimagined copyleft license specifically geared towards reuse or remix scenarios in which collaborators do not want to “contribute to oppressive...

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...

Volumetric Regimes: material cultures of quantified presence

2022, Jara Rocha and Femke Snelting

Open Humanities Press book licensed under the CC4r copyleft license.

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.

The Telekommunist Manifesto

2010, Dmytri Kleiner

Published under a Peer Production License as a model for a copyfarleft license.

after.video

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

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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...

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Preserving

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

Research Catalogue

The Research Catalogue (RC) is a non-commercial, collaboration and publishing platform for artistic research provided by the Society for Artistic...

figshare

A home for papers, FAIR data, and non-traditional research outputs that is easy to use and ready now.

Portico

Portico is a community-supported preservation archive that safeguards access to e-journals, e-books, and digital collections. Their unique,...

EaaSI

EaaSI provides emulation technology and support services to enable access to digital resources, such as digital experimental books.

DocNow

DocNow is a tool for appraising, collecting, and gathering consent for Twitter content.

(Minimally maintained)

twarc

twarc is a command line tool and Python library for collecting tweet data from Twitter's official API. It is designed for reliably collecting...

Hydrator

Hydrator is a desktop application for turning Tweet ID datasets back into tweet data to use in your research. It has been designed to be a...

(No longer maintained)

The Catalog

The Catalog is a community-sourced clearinghouse for tweet identifier datasets. Sharing tweet ids is a practice that is encouraged by Twitter as a...

OAPEN

The OAPEN platform helps open-access book publishers access preservation services. OAPEN offers to preserve titles held in OAPEN via their...

CLOCKSS

CLOCKSS is a collaboration between world-leading research libraries and academic publishers. As a financially secure, independent non-profit...

pan.do/ra

pan.do/ra is a free, open source media archive platform. It allows you to manage large, decentralized collections of video, to collaboratively...

Mutant Assembly

2022, Assembly of Mutants

Mutant Assembly grew out of an assembly of artists, writers, dancers and researchers departing from Senegal’s post-independence,...

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...

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Referencing

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

Zotero

Zotero is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials, such as PDF files....

PubPub

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

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...

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...

Tendencias recientes en las políticas científicas de ciencia abierta y acceso abierto en Iberoamérica

2020, Dominique Babini and Laura Rovelli

Tendencias recientes en las políticas científicas de ciencia abierta y acceso abierto en Iberoamérica is the first book in CLACSO´s...

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Remixing

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

Creative Commons License Chooser

The CC license chooser enables authors and contributors to select a Creative Commons license that appropriately reflects their intended use cases....

Attribution Generator

This tool makes it easy to reuse images from Wikipedia and the free media archive Wikimedia Commons. In many cases images on Wikipedia and the...

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ImageCodr.org

With ImageCodr.org, there is no need to format CC license data for Flickr photos, you simply enter in the URL of the picture page (as seen in your...

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flickr cc attribution helper

Makes attributing Flickr Creative Commons photos a simple cut and paste operation

(Minimally maintained)

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remixthebook

2011, Mark Amerika

The remixthebook.com website is the online hub for the digital remixes of many of the theories generated in the print book and features the...

OBP Customise

Open Book Publishers (OBP) allows and enables the creation of customised editions of OBP content. From requesting a customised cover for one of...

Living Books About Life

This book series published by Open Humanities Press ‘repackaged’ previously published open access content into curated edited collections. The...

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...

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Reviewing

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

CommentPress

CommentPress is an open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph-by-paragraph,...

Hypothesis

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

Fulcrum

Host open access books in a values-based open source environment? Help your authors publish their interactive scholarly work without breaking the...

Pressbooks

A WordPress-based book content management system which produces multiple formats: ebooks, webbooks, print-ready PDF, and various XML flavours.

Pundit Annotator

With Pundit Annotator you can highlight or comment on any text on the web. It is the perfect tool for your work, research, study. Pundit Annotator...

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RecogitoJS

A JavaScript library for text annotation

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CATMA

With CATMA you can easily annotate your text just as you would do in a book.

Annotation Studio

A suite of collaborative web-based annotation tools currently under development at MIT.

Scalar

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

Manifold

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

PubPub

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

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)

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Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University

2019, Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Developed in an open way by a process of community review, still using the CommentPress plugin, but now on the Humanities Commons platform:...

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Annotation

2021, Remi H. Kalir and Antero Garcia

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Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy

2011, Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Planned Obsolescence springs from the author Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication...

The Ethnographic Case

2017, Emily Yates-Doerr and Christine Labuski

The Ethnographic Case is an experimental, online, Open Access book, that invites readers to interact with it in a process of post-publication...

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...

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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...

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Rewriting

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

Manifold

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

MediaWiki

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

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...

The Rewrite Collaborative Framework Browser Extension

A browser extension, based on the open access framework hypothes.is, which allows for collective reading and annotation of complex texts (e.g....

Pandoc

Pandoc is a universal document converter. If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife.

Zettlr

Zettlr is a Markdown editor and notes app specifically targeted at academic researchers and academic publishing workflows.

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...

Living Books About Life

This book series published by Open Humanities Press ‘repackaged’ previously published open access content into curated edited collections. The...

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Translating

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

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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

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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...

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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...

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...

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Versioning

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

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.

Subversion

Apache Subversion is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical...

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...

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...

MediaWiki

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

Manifold

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

Gitea

Gitea is a software package for hosting software development version control using Git as well as other collaborative features like bug tracking,...

PubPub

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

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...

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Gamer Theory

2007, McKenzie Wark

Together with the Institute for the Future of the Book I produced this website as a way to think about games. We released Version 1.1 back in...

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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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

The Turing Way: A Handbook for Reproducible Data Science

2019, The Turing Way Community

The Turing Way is an open source community-driven guide to reproducible, ethical, inclusive and collaborative data science. Its goal is to...

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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...

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Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy

2011, Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Planned Obsolescence springs from the author Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication...

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