Punctum Books
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| Founded | 2011 |
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| Founder | Eileen A. Joy, Nicola Masciandaro |
| Country of origin | United States of America |
| Headquarters location | Santa Barbara, California |
| Publication types | Books |
| Owner(s) | Eileen A. Joy, Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei |
| No. of employees | 5 |
| Official website | punctumbooks |
Punctum Books, stylized as punctum books, is an open-access and print-on-demand independent, scholar-led publisher based in Santa Barbara, California, United States.
History
The imprint was co-founded in 2011 by Eileen A. Joy (a medievalist and advocate of open access[1]) and Nicola Masciandaro (Brooklyn College, CUNY), who left the project in 2012. The imprint was conceived partly as an offshoot of the BABEL Working Group,[2] a "non-hierarchical scholarly collective"[3] with an emphasis on medieval studies. Punctum Books was joined in 2016 by co-director Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei. Since its inception, Punctum Books has sought to bring scholarly works, often with a transdisciplinary or unconventional nature, to a broader public. It publishes print editions through Kindle Direct Publishing, but buyers can get a PDF version of the book for free through the publisher's website.[4]
In the past, Punctum Books published issues of the journals Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies,[5] Badiou Studies,[6] Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest,[7] Helvete: A Journal of Black Metal Theory,[8] Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media and Culture,[9] Networks and Neighbours,[10] O-Zone: A Journal of Object Oriented Studies,[11] Radical Criminology,[12] and Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism.[13]
Punctum Books was a partner on the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project which ran from 2019-2023,[14] and is now a partner on the Open Book Futures project funded by the Arcadia Fund and Research England.[15]
See also
- Open Book Publishers
- Open Humanities Press
References
- ↑ Rio Fernandes (22 January 2016). "Prominent Medieval Scholar's Blog on 'Feminist Fog' Sparks an Uproar". Chronicle of Higher Education. http://www.chronicle.com/article/Prominent-Medieval-Scholar-s/235014.
- ↑ "In The Para-Academic Playground: An interview with Eileen Joy, co-director of punctum books". Glasgow Review of Books. 7 May 2013. https://glasgowreviewofbooks.com/2013/05/07/in-the-para-academic-playground-an-interview-with-eileen-joy-co-director-of-punctum-books/. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ↑ "BABELcredo". BABEL working group. http://blogs.cofc.edu/babelworkinggroup/babelcredo/. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
- ↑ "Vision Statement". punctum books. https://punctumbooks.com/about/vision-statement/. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ↑ "About the Journal". Anarchist-developments.org. http://anarchist-developments.org/index.php/adcs_journal/about/index/. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ↑ "Badiou Studies homepage". Badioustudies.org. http://badioustudies.org/. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ↑ "Home". Contentionjournal.org. https://contentionjournal.org/. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ↑ "Helvete". https://helvetejournal.org/. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ↑ "Itineration - Cross Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture". Itineration.org. http://www.itineration.org/. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ↑ "Networks and Neighbours". Networksandneighbours.org. https://networksandneighbours.org/index.php/n/. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ↑ "O-Zone". http://o-zone-journal.org. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ↑ "Radical Criminology". Journal.radicalcriminology.org. http://journal.radicalcriminology.org/index.php/rc/index/. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ↑ "Speculations - Homepage". Speculations-journal.org. http://www.speculations-journal.org/. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ↑ Steiner, Tobias; Adema, Janneke (September 20, 2023). Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs: Final Report. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7961527. https://zenodo.org/records/7961527. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
- ↑ "£5.8 million project to deliver a more sustainable future for Open Access books". 30 March 2023. https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/58-million-project-to-deliver-a-more-sustainable-future-for-open-access-books.
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