Urgent Publishing Toolkit

Find all the tools and methods that were developed during the Making Public project here: Urgent Publishing Toolkit

The final publication is available in print and pdf here: Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing

Parazine is a tool that allows you to recontextualize existing academic content. It scrapes the content from an online academic journal of your choice and allows you to create a ‘zine’ from this content. You, the source journal and the tool all provide certain inputs. The resulting publication needs to be printed to be readable. You can make a publication for yourself, but also consider creating it for others (e.g. as a reader).

Platform-2-Platform is a tool that combines an algorithmic matching system and human editorial expertise to create relevant recommendations for further reading across a network of independent publishers.

Upside Down Inside Out is a manual for authors and editors who are fairly new to the possibilities of digital publishing and is meant to guide them in exploring the relational potential of their content.

Out Now: APRIA #3 – Urgent Publishing

By Miriam Rasch, October 12, 2021

Edited by Miriam Rasch and Nishant Shah. With contributions from Florian Cramer, Labor Neunzehn, Miriam Rasch and Paul Soulellis. Published by ArtEZ Press and APRIA: ArtEZ Platform for Research Interventions of the Arts. Download the print issue here. Publishing can be a slow business—frustratingly so when you want to participate in societal debates that evolve [...]

Print-On-Demand Reflections: Publit vs. Lulu

By Marijn Bril, March 2, 2021

When it comes to printing a book, Print-On-Demand (POD) is an interesting option. However, there is a lot to consider to get the print right and end up with the book you have in mind. The book Satellite Lifelines: Media, Art, Migration and the Crisis of Hospitality in Divided Cities by Isabel Löfgren is published [...]

‘Counter speed with a blossoming of un-immediacy’: interview on Urgent Publishing

By Miriam Rasch, June 25, 2020

For their upcoming podcast series where researchers in the ARIAS network talk about their projects, Morgane Billuart and Katie Clarke asked me to introduce Making Public and the urgent publishing concept and to explain why publishing research is needed. The transcript is shared below, stay tuned for the audio recording! — The world is an [...]