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Welcome to CUNY's installation of Manifold, an intuitive, collaborative, open-source platform for scholarly publishing 

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.

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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.

  • We Eat

  • Benito Cereno

    Herman Melville
    Updated February, 2021
  • Promoting Student Transformation At A Community College

    Steven L. Berg
    Published February, 2020
  • Benito Pérez Galdós - Textos casi completos

  • Being a Scholar in the Digital Era

    Jessie Daniels, Polly Thistlethwaite
    Published December, 2016
  • Reading Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Updated May, 2020
  • The OER Starter Kit Workbook

    Abbey Elder, Stacy Katz
  • Building Open Infrastructure at CUNY

    Luke Waltzer, Krystyna Michael, Paul L. Hebert, Elvis Bakaitis, Inés Vañó García, Jason Nielsen, Claudia Crowie, Miryam Nacimento, Elaine Sandoval, Natalie Oshukany, Gwen Shaw, Helena Shaskevich
    Updated July, 2020
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Libros En Español

Explore esta colección de textos en español del dominio público, subidos a la plataforma de CUNY Manifold.

  • Concepción Arenal

  • Carmen de Burgos

    Updated September, 2020
  • Fernán Caballero (Cecilia Böhl de Faber y Ruiz de Larrea)

  • Ángela Grassi

  • Clorinda Matto de Turner

  • María Teresa de las Mercedes Wilms Montt

  • Emilia Pardo Bazán

    Updated October, 2020
  • Benito Pérez Galdós - Textos casi completos

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.

  • The Great Lawsuit

    Published December, 2019
  • Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches

    Updated February, 2020
  • On the Equality of the Sexes

    Updated December, 2019

CUNY Class Projects

Class projects from courses across the 25-campus CUNY system

  • "Gender and Society" and us in the classroom

    Marianne Madoré
  • The Negro and the Nation

    Hubert Harrison
    Updated April, 2020
  • Benito Cereno

    Herman Melville
    Updated March, 2021
  • Structuring Equality

    The Graduate Center Learning Collective
    Updated February, 2021

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.

  • The Scarlet Letter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Updated March, 2020
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    Frederick Douglass
    Updated February, 2020
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Updated March, 2020
  • American Indian Stories

    Zitkala-Sa Gertrude Bonnin
    Updated February, 2020
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