Learn

On this page, we provide links to useful guides as well as suggestions for how you might put Manifold to work for you. You can also explore Manifold's documentation, where you will find detailed information about every feature of Manifold.

Why Manifold? from Zach Davis on Vimeo.

What Can You Do with Manifold?

Create aesthetic, dynamic versions of openly licensed digital texts
Ensure accessibility of your texts with responsive design that displays well on mobile devices and tablets
Create text-based conversations with collaborative annotation
Create zero-cost, shareable textbooks, course materials, and scholarly works
Use Manifold to publish student work and collective class projects

Key Features

Beautiful, readable, accessible longform texts
Annotations--highlighting, comments, and social media linking
Resources--audio, video, and weblinks anchored within the text or an associated resource collection
Collaborative comments on texts and resources
Easy citation tool

Getting Started

You can upload a variety of files into Manifold, including: EPUBs i.e. from Standard Ebooks, Wikisource, or Project Gutenberg; Google Docs; Word .docx files; Markdown; and HTML.

Manifold will create a dynamic Table of Contents based on the chapter structure of EPUBS. Project Gutenberg EPUBS tend to be low quality and may display with some structural issues in Manifold. Whenever possible, use high quality EPUBS, such as those found on Standard Ebooks. When using other file types, you can either use a heading structure or multiple file ingestion with a manifest in order to create a project with a dynamic heading structure. To learn more about preparing texts for ingestion, see the walkthroughs section of our documentation.

When you are ready to create a Manifold project, these guides will help you get started:

For more in-depth guidance, consult our documentation.

Barbour, V. “The US has ruled all taxpayer-funded research must be free to read. What’s the benefit of open access?”