Welcome to CUNY's installation of Manifold, an intuitive, collaborative, open-source platform for scholarly publishing
With Manifold, you can publish dynamic digital texts with rich media support, powerful annotation tools, and robust community dialogue. Manifold transforms scholarly publications into living digital works. This CUNY installation serves as a free publishing platform for the CUNY community, where you can create projects to house either your own scholarship or custom classroom versions of texts and textbooks that are openly licensed or in the public domain.
If you would like to be able to contribute texts or projects to this platform, please create an account and complete our brief permissions request form.
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.
Being a Scholar in the Digital Era
Polly Thistlethwaite, Jessie Daniels
Reading Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
The OER Starter Kit Workbook
Abbey Elder, Stacy Katz
Building Open Infrastructure at CUNY
Helena Shaskevich, Gwen Shaw, Natalie Oshukany, Elaine Sandoval, Miryam Nacimento, Claudia Crowie, Jason Nielsen, Inés Vañó García, Elvis Bakaitis, Paul L. Hebert, Krystyna Michael, Luke Waltzer
Beyond Populism
Jeff Maskovsky, Sophie Bjork-James
The Teach@CUNY Handbook
The GC Teaching and Learning Center
The Negro and the Nation
Hubert Harrison
Selections from Petrarch's Canzoniere
Francesco Petrarca
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.
CUNY Class Projects
Class projects from courses across the 25-campus CUNY system
American Literature
This is a collection of custom teaching versions of public domain American Literature texts created by instructors at CUNY and available for all as reading texts. We are building similar collections in other fields as faculty add more projects across the disciplines.
