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Open source software tools and platforms enable experimentation with scholarly books: changing how people, collate, write, assemble, review, publish, share, reuse, and read long-form texts.

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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(No longer maintained)

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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.

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...

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AnnotateIt

A project for web annotation. Superseded by Hypothesis.

(No longer maintained)

Annotating

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

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Annotation Studio

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

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...

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Annotorious

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

Annotating

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

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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)

Licensing

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

Remixing

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

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Binder

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

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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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...

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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BookStack

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

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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Booktype

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

(No longer maintained)

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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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)

Annotating

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

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CATMA

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

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...

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CC4r license

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

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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CLOCKSS

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

Preserving

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

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CommentPress

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

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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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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:...

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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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...

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...

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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....

Licensing

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

Remixing

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

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Cryptpad

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

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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Curvenote

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

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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Digital Mappa

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

(Minimally maintained)

Annotating

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

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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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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...

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...

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DocNow

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

(Minimally maintained)

Preserving

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

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Dokieli

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

Annotating

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

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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...

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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EaaSI

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

Preserving

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

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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...

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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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)

Annotating

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

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