Welcome to Manifold @CUNY!

An intuitive, collaborative, open-source platform for digital publishing.

Our Manifold instance serves as a free digital publishing platform for the entire CUNY community, where you can create and share your own scholarship, custom classroom versions of texts and textbooks that are openly licensed or in the public domain, Open Educational Resources (OER), journals, or use Manifold Reading Groups to build your own course reader from materials already available on our instance of Manifold.

Sign up for an account by clicking on the SIGN UP link below to begin annotating and using Manifold Reading Groups.

If you are a member of the CUNY community and would like to begin creating on Manifold, first sign up for an account using the SIGN UP button below, then complete this short form - Project Creator Request - and tell us a little about your project!

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Welcome to Manifold @CUNY!

Featured Projects

Browse a collection of vibrant texts uploaded to the CUNY Manifold platform. You can find a broad range of projects here, including original scholarship undergoing peer review, teaching handbooks, collaborative student projects, and customized course versions of texts and textbooks in the public domain.
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Archive Projects

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CUNY Class Projects

Class projects from courses across the 25-campus CUNY system
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CUNY Student Editions

Open-source, scholarly editions of historical texts, accessibly designed for students. Editions are offered to the public at no cost by a team of CUNY students and faculty.
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Libros en Español

Explore esta colección de textos en español del dominio público, subidos a la plataforma de CUNY Manifold.
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The Center for the Humanities

The Center for the Humanities encourages collaborative and creative work in the humanities at CUNY and across the city through public programming, projects, seminars, conferences, publications and exhibitions.

Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative publishes unexpected, genre-bending works by important 20th century writers.
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Manifold Guides

This collection contains resources for project creators on CUNY Manifold. These include Quick Guides available on the Manifold Learn page.

Teaching and Pedagogy Resources

Handbooks, guides, and other texts on the subject of pedagogy
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Open Poetics Series 1

Open Poetics Series 1 is a Litmus Press digital publishing project. The series provides critical editions of lesser-known and out-of-print works of contemporary poetry that were originally published by O Books and The Post-Apollo Press, and are now being managed and distributed by Litmus. Titles in this series incorporate external materials—critical essays, alternate versions, reviews, translations, and archival images—that have been curated by a board of poets and teachers. This project offers a living archival solution to the challenges of visibility and accessibility faced by avant-garde and experimental writing championed by small presses.

For more about Litmus Press, visit the Litmus Press website.

Student Projects: Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations

Capstone, Thesis, and Dissertation Projects published by CUNY Students
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OER Textbooks

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Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

A journal promoting open scholarly discourse around critical and creative uses of technology in teaching, learning, and research.

We are proud to announce that, after an extensive team effort, we have migrated our archives (Issues 1–20 and our Short Forms) from our CUNY Academic Commons WordPress site to Manifold! We hope you'll take the opportunity to engage anew with our decade's worth of publications.

One thing we treasure about Manifold is that it gives our readers the opportunity to add thoughts, comments, and questions using public annotations, as well as join and create private or public reading groups—all by creating a free Manifold reader account. Please don’t hesitate to join JITP’s own public reading group to stay up to date and join the conversation as we enter this exciting new period.

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Humanities Methods in Librarianship

We are pleased to announce our first Call for Papers.

Humanities Methods in Librarianship is a no-fee, open access journal that publishes high quality, peer-reviewed research with an emphasis on articles that push the boundaries — both thematically and formally — of what has been traditionally viewed as scholarship within the discipline. The journal aims to broaden the conversation by encouraging submissions that deploy methods from the humanities to address current or salient questions related to libraries, librarians, and librarianship. Humanistic methodological approaches may be used to address a wide range of topics within librarianship, so we encourage creative approaches and a diversity of submissions.

Submission types may include but are not limited to:

  • Conceptual, philosophical, or theoretical discussions
  • Literary, critical, or textual analyses of major (or minor) works within the literature
  • Historical analyses and histories of the profession
  • Personal narratives and autoethnography
  • Creative non-fiction
  • Interviews or oral histories

We aim to publish original work, but the journal will consider papers that have been presented at conferences. We won’t review or accept work that is currently under consideration elsewhere.

Authors are welcome to reach out to the editors to share a synopsis or an abstract in advance of submission to determine if their topic is within scope. Issues will be published annually, with articles available ahead of the full issue.

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