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

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. 🎉🥳🍾

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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...

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!

"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

#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

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!

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

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

Happy #Caturday! *artwork by Matt McCarthy, mrmattmccarthy.com

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

Bodybuilding, group therapy, suicide cults, Marilyn Monroe, orgies, missing children, Mickey Mouse, zombies, Nazis, shock therapy, surf music & the psycho-history of the 20th century. COMING THIS FALL: a new, updated edition of Laurence Rickels's 1991 THE CASE OF CALIFORNIA: tinyurl.com/4um26dza

This important national summit will bring together authors, editors, librarians, university leaders, funders & policymakers to advance a coordinated, community-led framework for #OpenAccess book publishing in Nigeria 🤝 ✈️ @joedeville.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @punctumbooks.bsky.social

Once the soul leaves the body, he will not fly to the monstrous shrine where all the war dead went & continue to go, but to that farm by the river where white shy herons glide in the quiet sky. Read IMAGINARY DEATH by Mariko Nagai, published #OpenAccess & FREE to download: tinyurl.com/4nhr37xx

Oh! The fabulous Natalya Din-Kariuki speaking and announcing that the publication of Crossing @punctumbooks.bsky.social is immanent! Get your copy: punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...

cover reveal >> DRAG EDUCATION: RuPaul, Queer Theory, and the Politics of Teaching by Ryan Tracy [---book #3 in the Risking Education series co-edited by Ansgar Allen & Emile Bojesen---] punctumbooks.com/titles/drag-... @punctumbooks.bsky.social #RuPaul #queertheory

HAPPY #CATURDAY!

In the tradition of Agee & Evans’s "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," IMAGINARY DEATH is part meditation, part history & part memory fragments, telling a story of a Japanese soldier’s life and death during World War II. #OpenAccess & FREE to download: tinyurl.com/4nhr37xx #trauma #war #history

Why has the #OpenAccess community not mounted a collective response to the armies of bots scraping open repositories for content to feed large-scale language models (LLMs) owned by mega-AI corporations? How open is open, anyway? Read our response to Bartz v. Anthropic: tinyurl.com/yp55364c

How to puncture prevalent European understandings of the Mediterranean? The colonizing impulse inscribed in Western historiography can't be undone by adding previously repressed & unacknowledged histories. THE MEDITERRANEAN QUESTION: new coordinates for another Mediterranean. tinyurl.com/yv9svw25

Check it out: a NEW BOOKS NETWORK podcast with punctum editors of the #OpenAccess book, HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF GAME STUDIES! #gaming #GameStudies #MediaStudies #DigitalHumanities

Enable #OpenAccess books to fly around the world & be accessible to everyone, no matter their means, by becoming a subscriber! For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power punctum's flying book machine. Help make the MAGIC happen! punctumbooks.com/support/ #GIVE #DONATE

Why has the #OpenAccess community not mounted a collective response to the armies of bots scraping open repositories for content to feed to large-scale language models (LLMs) owned by mega-AI corporations? How open is open, anyway? Read our response to Bartz v. Anthropic: tinyurl.com/yp55364c

Insisting that present knowledge is sustained in asymmetrical relations of power, THE MEDITERRANEAN QUESTION casts a critical light on the deeper African & Asian Mediterranean(s) that have been obscured in Western histories & archives. PUBLISHED #OpenAccess! DOWNLOAD: tinyurl.com/yv9svw25

WATCH our screening of 2 films by punctum author Sarah Rosenthal, "Lizard Song" & "We Agree on the Sun." Download Sarah & Valerie Witte's book ONE THING FOLLOWS ANOTHER: Experiments in Dance, Art, and Life here: tinyurl.com/4vx9tnt4 #SimoneForti #YvonneRainer vimeo.com/999679791?fe...

New bookmarks! We’ll be giving these away at Charleston Conference in Nov. 2025, MLA meeting in Toronto in Jan. 2026, and AWP meeting in Baltimore in March 2026. #OpenAccess #books

Essential reading: “AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response” doi.org/10.21428/ae6... from @punctumbooks.bsky.social

"We expect publishers like Taylor & Francis to be non-transparent with NDAs flying around; we expect uni presses like Johns Hopkins UP to be more transparent when making 'deals' around the use of their authors' work." Read our response to Bartz v. Anthropic here: tinyurl.com/yp55364c #OpenAccess

Insisting that present knowledge is sustained in asymmetrical relations of power, THE MEDITERRANEAN QUESTION casts a critical light on the deeper African & Asian Mediterranean(s) that have been obscured in Western histories & archives. OUT TODAY #OpenAccess: tinyurl.com/yv9svw25

Join us this Saturday 9/13, 7pm for a book launch x3! @shellthief.bsky.social & I will read from One Thing Follows Another, new from @punctumbooks.bsky.social, & share stunning broadsides w/art by Nancy Larsen, free w/ book purchase; Jennifer Hasegawa & Faith Adiele will share new books as well.

The advent of AI bots trawling for vast datasets for LLMs is setting into motion new battles over intellectual property. & OA publishers need to be more attentive to the symbiosis between what is open & what is proprietary. Read our response to Bartz et al. vs. Anthropic here: tinyurl.com/yp55364c

‪ GRATEFUL to University of Nottingham Library @uniofnottingham.bsky.social for supporting us via @openbookcollective.bsky.social! This is #library funding for #OpenAccess #books in action. It takes a community & every book we publish is a gift from libraries! 🎉🥳 tinyurl.com/4nfh3wep #LibraryLove

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