[Commlist] 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/ <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 experimental books, and 
experimental publishing practices with a focus on free and open-source 
software, platforms, and digital publishing tools that presses and 
authors can either use freely or can adapt to their research and 
publishing workflows. With the compendium we want to promote and inspire 
authors and publishers to publish experimental monographs and to 
challenge and redefine the shape, form, and rationale of scholarly books.


We are celebrating the official launch of the Experimental Publishing 
Compendium with a festive calendar. Follow us on Twitter 
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/ExperimentalPublishingCompendium?src=hashtag_click> (#ExperimentalPublishingCompendium) 
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Mastodon <https://hcommons.social/@copim/111504446157516140> to discover 
24 experimental publishing tools, practices & books from the compendium.


The compendium includes experiments with the form and format of the 
scholarly book; with the various (multi)media we can publish long-form 
research in; and with how people produce, disseminate, consume, review, 
reuse, interact with, and form communities around books. Far from being 
merely a formal exercise, experimental publishing as we conceive it here 
also reimagines the relationalities that constitute scholarly writing, 
research, and publishing. Books, after all, validate what counts as 
research and materialise how scholarly knowledge production is organised.

We hope the linked entries in this compendium inspire speculations on 
the future of the book and the humanities more in general and encourage 
publishers and authors to explore publications beyond the standard 
printed codex format.


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The Experimental Publishing Compendium has been curated by Janneke 
Adema, Julien McHardy, and Simon Bowie and has been compiled by Janneke 
Adema, Simon Bowie, Gary Hall, Rebekka Kiesewetter, Julien McHardy, and 
Tobias Steiner. Future versions will be overseen, curated, and 
maintained by an Editorial Board. Back-end coding by Simon Bowie 
<https://simonxix.com/>, front-end coding by Joel Galvez 
<https://www.joelgalvez.com/>, design by Joel Galvez & Martina Vanini.


The Experimental Publishing Compendium is licensed under a Creative 
Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) 
<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>. All source code is 
available on GitHub at https://github.com/COPIM/expub_compendium 
<https://github.com/COPIM/expub_compendium> under an MIT License 
<https://github.com/COPIM/expub_compendium/blob/main/LICENSE>.


The compendium grew out of the following two reports:

  * Adema, J., Bowie, S., Mars, M., and T. Steiner (2022) /Books Contain
    Multitudes: Exploring Experimental Publishing (2022 update)/.
    Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs
    (COPIM). doi: 10.21428/785a6451.1792b84f
    <https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.1792b84f> &
    10.5281/zenodo.6545475 <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6545475>.
  * Adema, J., Moore, S., and T. Steiner (2021) /Promoting and Nurturing
    Interactions with Open Access Books: Strategies for Publishers and
    Authors/. Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for
    Monographs (COPIM). doi: 10.21428/785a6451.2d6f4263
    <https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.2d6f4263> and
    10.5281/zenodo.5572413 <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5572413>
COPIM, Open Book Futures, and the Experimental Publishing Compendium are 
supported by the Research England Development (RED) Fund 
<https://re.ukri.org/funding/our-funds-overview/research-england-development-red-fund/> and 
by Arcadia <https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/>.

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