Matt Cheney recently sat down with Co-Director of punctum books, Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy for a conversation about Open Access publishing: the what, the how, the why.
Founded in 2011, punctum is an independent queer- and scholar-led, community-formed, and peer-reviewed fully open-access (OA) publisher devoted to academic and para-academic authors working in any field in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design. From its start, punctum has remained committed to an OA book publishing model that never charges fees to authors and that privileges cooperative expertise and knowledge sharing between librarians, knowledge managers, publishers, and scholar-researchers.
Additional Resources:
- “What is Your Threshold? The Economics of Open Access Scholarly Book Publishing, the ‘Business’ of Care, and the Case of punctum books” by Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
- Copim (A community working to build a fairer, more open future for scholarly books)
- Open Book Collective