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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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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...
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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...

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Twine

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

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TypeMill

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

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Vivliostyle

An open source project for a new typesetting system fitting for digital and web publishing based on the latest web standard technology.
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cover for Citizen Science Skilling for Library Staff, Researchers, and the Public

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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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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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)
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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,...

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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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MediaWiki

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

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...
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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...

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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Wiki.js

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

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Wikibooks

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

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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...
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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...

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XWiki

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

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Zettlr

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

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Zotero

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

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