Category: Experimental Publishing
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Launch of the Experimental Publishing Compendium
The Copim community and Open Book Futures are pleased to announce the launch of the Experimental Publishing Compendium https://compendium.copim.ac.uk/ The compendium is a guide and reference for scholars, publishers, developers, librarians, and designers who want to challenge, push, and redefine the shape, form, and rationale of scholarly books. The compendium gathers and links tools, examples of…
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Ecological Rewriting: Situated Engagements with The Chernobyl Herbarium
Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of Ecological Rewriting: Situated Engagements with The Chernobyl Herbarium, edited by Gabriela Méndez Cota. Like all Open Humanities Press books, Ecological Rewriting is available open access (it can be downloaded for free): https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/ecological-rewriting/ Book description Ecological Rewriting: Situated Engagements with The Chernobyl Herbarium is the first…
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COPIM Conference: Experimental Books – Re-imagining Scholarly Publishing
Experimental Books – Re-imagining Scholarly Publishing Exploring Archival Data Performances, Re-using as Re-writing, and Computational Books An Online Conference in Three Parts Monday 20 February, Thursday 9 March, & Monday 13 March 2023 Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) Experimental Publishing and Reuse Work Package final conference Register here (free): https://experimentalbooks.pubpub.org/ (please note that places…
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Two New COPIM Research Reports Published
We have released two new COPIM Research Reports last months. The first report is version 2.0 of the report Books Contain Multitudes: Exploring Experimental Publishing, which we released last year and have now updated, incorporating feedback from readers and our community and adding new content. This report has been updated for this version by myself,…
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Experimental Publishing VI – Critique, Intervention, And Speculation
A symposium with talks by Winnie Soon (Aarhus University) and Roopika Risam (Salem State University) Registration (free): https://www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/744/home This is the sixth in a series of symposia hosted by the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) exploring contemporary approaches to experimental publishing. Over the course of the series, we will ask questions about the role and…
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New Books Network Podcast about Living Books
The wonderful Sarah Kearns, who has also been incredibly helpful in getting Living Books. Experiments in the Posthumanities (MIT Press, 2021) up on PubPub (opening the book up for annotations and comments), has conducted a podcast interview with me for the New Books Network about Living Books. You can listen to the interview here and…
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Textshop Experiments Living Books Book Talk
I am so glad to have been invited by the amazing Kevin Wisniewski (@projectorperiod) to do a book talk as part of the Textshop Experiments Book Talks! Textshop Experiments is a scholarly open access journal dedicated to fostering experimental works and to exploring electracy, rhetoric, media, and culture in the digital age. Kevin also runs…
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New COPIM Report: Promoting and Nurturing Interactions with Open Access Books
Two weeks ago we released a new COPIM research report: Promoting and Nurturing Interactions with Open Access Books: Strategies for Publishers and Authors. The report has been written by Samuel Moore, Tobias Steiner, and myself. This three-part research and scoping report has been created as a (evolving) resource for the scholarly community, especially for publishers…
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OA Books Workouts. Scholars At Work
This series, hosted by Jeroen Sondervan, features different scholars talking about publishing Open Access books. Hear more about their projects, why they chose Open Access, and the challenges and triumphs they experienced along the way! 19 October 2021 (2-3PM BST / 3-4PM CEST): Janneke Adema, Living Books. Book your place here (it’s free!) Series of…
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Radical Open Access: Experiments in (Post-)Publishing Symposium
Friday, 1 October 2021 With the demise of traditional gatekeepers, we are witnessing the rapid rise of alternative modes of both scholarly publishing and distribution as well as the artistic exhibition of computer generated works of art in digital environments. The rise of open access and collaborative platforms are in fact blurring the distinctions between…
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Experimental Publishing V – Critique, Intervention, And Speculation
A symposium with a talk by Amaranth Borsuk (University of Washington, Bothell) 18:30-19:30pm BST June 23Centre for Postdigital Cultures (online talk) Post-publishing website: https://www.post-publishing.org/ Registration (free): https://www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/345/home This is the fifth in a series of symposia hosted by the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) exploring contemporary approaches to experimental publishing. Over the course of the series,…
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ScholarLed/ROAC Virtual Book Stand
Available at: http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/latest-publications/ Formed in 2015, the Radical Open Access Collective (https://radicaloa.co.uk/) is an international community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects. Now consisting of more than 60 members, we promote a progressive vision for open publishing in the humanities and social sciences. Formed in 2018 ScholarLed (https://scholarled.org/) is a consortium of…