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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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Juncture

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

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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Jupyter Book

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

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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...

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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Jupyter Notebook

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

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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...

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...

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JupyterLab

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

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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...

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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JupyterLite

A full JupyterLab distribution running in the browser.

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...

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Ketida (formerly Editoria)

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

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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LibriVox

LibriVox is a non-commercial, non-profit, and ad-free volunteer-led project. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and...

Audacity

Free and open source audio editing and recording app. Good for recording and editing audiobooks, podcasts, interviews, or just recording voicenotes.

Listening

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Manifold

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

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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...

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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...

Annotating

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

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...

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...

Versioning

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

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MediaWiki

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

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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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...

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...

Living Books About Life

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

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...

Rewriting

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

Versioning

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

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Mirador

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

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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Motion Bank

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

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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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)

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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Netlify

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

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...

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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NeuroLibre

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

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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OAPEN

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

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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Obi

Obi is an open source audio book production tool that produces digital talking books (DTBs) conforming to DAISY 3 (ANSI/NISO Z39.86), DAISY 2.02,...

Listening

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octomode

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

Collaborative writing

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

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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ONLYOFFICE

A complete office productivity suite.

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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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...

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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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...

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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...

Annotating

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

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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Overleaf

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

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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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)

Collaborative writing

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

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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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...

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...

Etherport

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

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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...

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...

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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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...

Preserving

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

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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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.

Computational publishing

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

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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