The Library-Publisher partnership

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The Internet Archive, as a central repository not only for publications, but for the entire history of the internet, is of vital importance,” Van Gerven Oei said. “I am happy that the Internet Archive is one of the first repositories connected to our work with Thoth.”

In addition, punctum is working with other libraries to develop open community-owned infrastructure to offer an alternative to commercial publishing infrastructures.


See recent COPIM blog post about the experimentation with automated archiving at Internet Archive.
“We see libraries as our allies in our fight for open phone number database knowledge,” Van Gerven Oei said. “Knowledge is a public good that should not be a private enterprise at all.”


The founders of punctum believe the press has a moral obligation to provide its materials for free and allow authors to share, remix, and reuse.

Incorporated and based in Santa Barbara, California, punctum has a partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Library.


The UC Santa Barbara Library. Photo credit: UC SANTA BARBARA
Together, they conducted a two-year pilot project from 2018-2020 to test a no-fees open access book publishing model for the humanities and social sciences.