punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion
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punctum books is a queer, scholar-led Open Access press devoted to creative modes of inquiry across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. Affiliated with UC-Santa Barbara Library & funded by university libraries across the globe. https://punctumbooks.com
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Happy BIRTHDAY to PUNCTUM!
WE'RE 14 & still TWEEN-ing it! punctum books, a scholar-led & queer-led press, was founded on April 1, 2011 and we’ve been fighting for the weird & #OpenAccess in scholarly publishing ever since.
Help us celebrate 🎉🥳🍾by becoming a subscriber!
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WE'RE 14 & still TWEEN-ing it! punctum books, a scholar-led & queer-led press, was founded on April 1, 2011 and we’ve been fighting for the weird & #OpenAccess in scholarly publishing ever since.
Help us celebrate 🎉🥳🍾by becoming a subscriber!
punctumbooks.com/support/
HUZZAH! Community-led #OpenAccess book platforms that attend, not to scale, but to systems designed for resiliency and bibliodiversity will not only succeed, but are already succeeding. We helped build the OBC & we're proud as hell of it.
🥳 The Open Book Collective is delighted to announce the first recipient of our Collective Development Fund for 2025–2026! 🥳
The project is titled:
‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’.
The project is titled:
‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’.
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
HUZZAH! Community-led #OpenAccess book platforms that attend, not to scale, but to systems designed for resiliency and bibliodiversity will not only succeed, but are already succeeding. We helped build the OBC & we're proud as hell of it.
What if a psychiatric hospital eliminated locks & restraints, shared governance with its patients & opened its grounds as a public park? It happened in Italy in the 1960s & the doctors & patients wrote this book together.
#OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/yxn4mb9z
#OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/yxn4mb9z
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
What if a psychiatric hospital eliminated locks & restraints, shared governance with its patients & opened its grounds as a public park? It happened in Italy in the 1960s & the doctors & patients wrote this book together.
#OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/yxn4mb9z
#OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/yxn4mb9z
punctum books, founded in Brooklyn in 2011, celebrates Mamdani’s victory in NYC. To the 1M+ NYC voters who said they would leave the city if he won, please don’t let the door hit you on the way out. 🎉🥳🍾
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
punctum books, founded in Brooklyn in 2011, celebrates Mamdani’s victory in NYC. To the 1M+ NYC voters who said they would leave the city if he won, please don’t let the door hit you on the way out. 🎉🥳🍾
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Can confirm — Livy and @openbookcollective.bsky.social have some great swag! Head to booth 29 to learn about “the most gorgeous metadata management system” and pick up a tote bag #chsconf2025 #charleston2025
November 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Can confirm — Livy and @openbookcollective.bsky.social have some great swag! Head to booth 29 to learn about “the most gorgeous metadata management system” and pick up a tote bag #chsconf2025 #charleston2025
punctum’s headquarters for the Charleston Conference! #chsconf2025
November 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
punctum’s headquarters for the Charleston Conference! #chsconf2025
The Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social is LIVE at the Charleston Conference from 10am to 5pm today! Come chat all things community-led #OpenAccess book publishing with Livy Snyder & Eileen Joy.
Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!
#chsconf2025
Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!
#chsconf2025
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social is LIVE at the Charleston Conference from 10am to 5pm today! Come chat all things community-led #OpenAccess book publishing with Livy Snyder & Eileen Joy.
Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!
#chsconf2025
Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!
#chsconf2025
In the age of extinction, when AI bots have swarmed the ramparts, trillionaires head for off-planet bunkers & our dependency upon unsustainable killing machines of sedentary consumerism has hobbled us, this is your survival manual.
ONTOHACKERS: #OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/2cvuf5cn
ONTOHACKERS: #OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/2cvuf5cn
November 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
In the age of extinction, when AI bots have swarmed the ramparts, trillionaires head for off-planet bunkers & our dependency upon unsustainable killing machines of sedentary consumerism has hobbled us, this is your survival manual.
ONTOHACKERS: #OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/2cvuf5cn
ONTOHACKERS: #OpenAccess & FREE to download.
tinyurl.com/2cvuf5cn
Enable #OpenAccess books to fly around the world & be accessible to everyone, no matter their means, by becoming a punctum subscriber!
For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power our flying book machine.
Help make the MAGIC happen!
punctumbooks.com/support/
#GIVE #DONATE
For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power our flying book machine.
Help make the MAGIC happen!
punctumbooks.com/support/
#GIVE #DONATE
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November 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Enable #OpenAccess books to fly around the world & be accessible to everyone, no matter their means, by becoming a punctum subscriber!
For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power our flying book machine.
Help make the MAGIC happen!
punctumbooks.com/support/
#GIVE #DONATE
For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power our flying book machine.
Help make the MAGIC happen!
punctumbooks.com/support/
#GIVE #DONATE
Heck yeah! CONGRATS Internet Archive!
HAPPENING TODAY! 🌐🎨
Celebrate 1 trillion web pages archived on the #WaybackMachine through art: Internet Archive x @GrayArea.org: Trillionth Webpage Net․Art Commissions.
📅 Sat, Nov 1
🕗 5–8 PM PT
📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1872604563...
#Wayback1T
Celebrate 1 trillion web pages archived on the #WaybackMachine through art: Internet Archive x @GrayArea.org: Trillionth Webpage Net․Art Commissions.
📅 Sat, Nov 1
🕗 5–8 PM PT
📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1872604563...
#Wayback1T
November 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Heck yeah! CONGRATS Internet Archive!
It’s #NationalCatDay and we’re remembering Lucy, punctum’s office muse, who sailed to Valhalla this past July at the age of 17. She didn’t break the mold; she was the mold.
October 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It’s #NationalCatDay and we’re remembering Lucy, punctum’s office muse, who sailed to Valhalla this past July at the age of 17. She didn’t break the mold; she was the mold.
For #OpenAccess Week, our director Eileen Joy sat down with punctum authors Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social & Nicolette Bragg to talk together about the university, open publishing, AI, creativity, community, and who owns our knowledge.
vimeo.com/1129602616
#OAWeek #books #AI #publishing
vimeo.com/1129602616
#OAWeek #books #AI #publishing
Encounters at the End of the Book | Who Owns Our Knowledge? A conversation with punctum authors
As part of Open Access Week 2025, punctum books hosted a conversation between authors Matt Cheney and Lette Bragg, alongside punctum director Eileen Fradenburg Joy,…
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October 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
For #OpenAccess Week, our director Eileen Joy sat down with punctum authors Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social & Nicolette Bragg to talk together about the university, open publishing, AI, creativity, community, and who owns our knowledge.
vimeo.com/1129602616
#OAWeek #books #AI #publishing
vimeo.com/1129602616
#OAWeek #books #AI #publishing
Enable #OpenAccess books to fly around the world & be accessible to everyone, no matter their means, by becoming a punctum books subscriber!
For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power our flying book machine.
Help make the SPARKLY MAGIC happen!
punctumbooks.com/support/
#GIVE #DONATE
For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power our flying book machine.
Help make the SPARKLY MAGIC happen!
punctumbooks.com/support/
#GIVE #DONATE
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October 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Enable #OpenAccess books to fly around the world & be accessible to everyone, no matter their means, by becoming a punctum books subscriber!
For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power our flying book machine.
Help make the SPARKLY MAGIC happen!
punctumbooks.com/support/
#GIVE #DONATE
For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power our flying book machine.
Help make the SPARKLY MAGIC happen!
punctumbooks.com/support/
#GIVE #DONATE
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Currently agreeing harder than ever with Vincent van Gerven Oei (@punctumbooks.bsky.social & @thoth-metadata.bsky.social).
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Currently agreeing harder than ever with Vincent van Gerven Oei (@punctumbooks.bsky.social & @thoth-metadata.bsky.social).
Our Director Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy will be at Sonoma State University Library tomorrow for #OpenAccess Week to moderate a panel with SSU faculty in multiple disciplines on “Who Owns Our Knowledge”? The panel will be available via Zoom. Join us!
October 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Our Director Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy will be at Sonoma State University Library tomorrow for #OpenAccess Week to moderate a panel with SSU faculty in multiple disciplines on “Who Owns Our Knowledge”? The panel will be available via Zoom. Join us!
Our Director Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy will be at Sonoma State University Library tomorrow for #OpenAccess Week to moderate a panel with SSU faculty in multiple disciplines on “Who Owns Our Knowledge”? The panel will be available via Zoom. Join us!
October 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Our Director Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy will be at Sonoma State University Library tomorrow for #OpenAccess Week to moderate a panel with SSU faculty in multiple disciplines on “Who Owns Our Knowledge”? The panel will be available via Zoom. Join us!
Director Eileen Joy yukking it up with @georgemasonu.bsky.social librarians (Anne Osterman, Meg Meiman, Alok Yadav & Emilie Algenio) & #OpenAccess publishers @charleswatkinson.bsky.social & Peter Potter @paradigmpubserv.bsky.social at GMU's Center for the Humanities to discuss OA books last Friday.
October 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Director Eileen Joy yukking it up with @georgemasonu.bsky.social librarians (Anne Osterman, Meg Meiman, Alok Yadav & Emilie Algenio) & #OpenAccess publishers @charleswatkinson.bsky.social & Peter Potter @paradigmpubserv.bsky.social at GMU's Center for the Humanities to discuss OA books last Friday.
punctum Co-Director Vincent van Gerven Oei and punctum author Sawako Nakayasu confabbing in Tokyo!
Check out Nakayasu's book THE ANTS here -- "the distance, the break, and the tenuous wilderness between exoskeleton and endoskeleton" -- which is #FREE to download:
punctumbooks.com/titles/the-a...
Check out Nakayasu's book THE ANTS here -- "the distance, the break, and the tenuous wilderness between exoskeleton and endoskeleton" -- which is #FREE to download:
punctumbooks.com/titles/the-a...
October 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
punctum Co-Director Vincent van Gerven Oei and punctum author Sawako Nakayasu confabbing in Tokyo!
Check out Nakayasu's book THE ANTS here -- "the distance, the break, and the tenuous wilderness between exoskeleton and endoskeleton" -- which is #FREE to download:
punctumbooks.com/titles/the-a...
Check out Nakayasu's book THE ANTS here -- "the distance, the break, and the tenuous wilderness between exoskeleton and endoskeleton" -- which is #FREE to download:
punctumbooks.com/titles/the-a...
SO COOL. #Libraries
The Metro NY Library Council is creating an outdoor library in Westchester County. We now own 26 acres — and this wknd we’re hosting a group of international librarians to help us think about what this place can be! It’ll soon be open to the public + usable by all our 100s of member institutions ☺️
October 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
SO COOL. #Libraries
Our co-director Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy will join Peter Potter of Paradigm Publishing and @charleswatkinson.bsky.social of University of Michigan Press on Friday at 12:00noon EST to discuss #OpenAccess Publishing and the #Humanities.
*Organized by George Mason University #Libraries!
*Organized by George Mason University #Libraries!
Curious how OA is shaping humanities research?
Tomorrow, Paradigm’s VP of OA Peter Potter will join a virtual panel hosted by @georgemasonu.bsky.social Libraries in conversation with fellow experts from @punctumbooks.bsky.social and @uofmpress.bsky.social!
Register:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Tomorrow, Paradigm’s VP of OA Peter Potter will join a virtual panel hosted by @georgemasonu.bsky.social Libraries in conversation with fellow experts from @punctumbooks.bsky.social and @uofmpress.bsky.social!
Register:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 17, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Our co-director Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy will join Peter Potter of Paradigm Publishing and @charleswatkinson.bsky.social of University of Michigan Press on Friday at 12:00noon EST to discuss #OpenAccess Publishing and the #Humanities.
*Organized by George Mason University #Libraries!
*Organized by George Mason University #Libraries!
"A landmark text at a moment when a new conversation about what it means to inhabit this land together is so desperately needed." ~Lyndsey Stonebridge
CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms
#OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
#immigration #migrancy #dispossessions
CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms
#OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
#immigration #migrancy #dispossessions
October 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"A landmark text at a moment when a new conversation about what it means to inhabit this land together is so desperately needed." ~Lyndsey Stonebridge
CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms
#OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
#immigration #migrancy #dispossessions
CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms
#OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
#immigration #migrancy #dispossessions
#OpenAccess Week is almost here!
OA WEEK: Next week (20-26 October) is #OAWeek!
At the OABN, in collaboration with @copim.bsky.social , we've gathered as many online events as we can find that relate to OA books or open infrastructures & shared the details in this post:
👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/15/i...
At the OABN, in collaboration with @copim.bsky.social , we've gathered as many online events as we can find that relate to OA books or open infrastructures & shared the details in this post:
👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/15/i...
October 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
#OpenAccess Week is almost here!
CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms shows how the arts & the humanities can meet the ethical demands that the reality of mass displacement places on us, in a way that governments & institutions have failed to do.
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
October 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms shows how the arts & the humanities can meet the ethical demands that the reality of mass displacement places on us, in a way that governments & institutions have failed to do.
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/2s3686hm
punctum is a founding member of the Open Book Collective, a unique community for raising money to support Diamond #OpenAccess book publishing & the development of open infrastructures that support OA publishers. Representing presses & developers in Africa, Canada, Europe, the UK, and the US!
🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to share our 2024–2025 Annual Report: A Year of Important Progress. We’ve made big strides toward sustainability, expanded our collective + strengthened global partnerships for OA books. Read the full report: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-boo...
Open Book Collective 2024-2025 annual report: A year of important progress
The team provide an overview of the Open Book Collective's work, as well as the work of its Publisher and Publishing Service Provider Members
openbookcollective.pubpub.org
October 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
punctum is a founding member of the Open Book Collective, a unique community for raising money to support Diamond #OpenAccess book publishing & the development of open infrastructures that support OA publishers. Representing presses & developers in Africa, Canada, Europe, the UK, and the US!
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Day 2 of the National OA Summit in Nigeria. Kicking off with @copim.bsky.social colleagues Mary Felix-Maina from @doabooks.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social & Vincent van Gerven Oei from @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @punctumbooks.bsky.social talking about trust, metadata & discoverability for books
October 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Day 2 of the National OA Summit in Nigeria. Kicking off with @copim.bsky.social colleagues Mary Felix-Maina from @doabooks.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social & Vincent van Gerven Oei from @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @punctumbooks.bsky.social talking about trust, metadata & discoverability for books
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An excellent diversion.
Are the executive orders getting you down? Caught between $100,000 immigration visas & making federal architecture beautiful again? You NEED the People's EXECUTIVE ORDERS:
By the fleece vested in us, we hereby order a freezer cake!
#OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/zsrat342
By the fleece vested in us, we hereby order a freezer cake!
#OpenAccess & FREE to download:
tinyurl.com/zsrat342
October 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
An excellent diversion.