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Zineopolis is an art-zine archive curated by Dr Jackie Batey at the University of Portsmouth, preserving visual zines created by Illustration degree students alongside donated and purchased works since 2007. The collection champions uncensored creative expression outside traditional publishing, focusing on art-heavy zines and offering workshops, research resources, and short films about zine culture.

The alt.zines DMZ serves as the unofficial web companion to the Usenet newsgroup alt.zines, collecting archives of on-topic discussions, a regularly updated FAQ, and practical advice for aspiring zine publishers. Visitors can explore a publishers index, a curated list of review zines, and tips from experienced zinesters, making it a genuine hub for the indie zine community.

Electric Velocipede appears to be a literary or speculative fiction publication with a distinctive name that evokes early mechanical transportation. The site is largely a splash page with minimal visible content, but the title suggests a zine or small press journal focused on experimental or genre fiction.

A curated research guide from the Library of Congress listing U.S. and international zine distributors, publishers, and zine libraries for researchers and collectors. The guide serves as a practical starting point for locating independent zine vendors, with annotated links to distros from cities like NYC, Seattle, Oakland, and San Francisco.

ZEMOS98 is a Spanish cultural organization and festival platform dedicated to deconstructing dominant mass-media messages through critical media arts and activism. Their annual festival, labs, TV productions, and publications make it a hub for experimental media culture and European remapping initiatives.

Chaos Theory: Tales Askew is an online zine or literary publication that appears to have been running since at least 2011, reaching its 14th issue at the time of this snapshot. The splash page hints at a creative writing or speculative fiction publication associated with the Genspace community, with a farewell message suggesting the final issue.

Common Pest is a personal creative hub by a maker who goes by the same name, hosting self-produced zines, music logs, and various creative projects while learning HTML and CSS from scratch. The site features a charming bat-filled illustrated tree as its navigation, a blog, and a music section covering artists like Tears for Fears, the Deftones, and Twenty One Pilots.

Littlemouse.fun hosts a curated collection of printable and screen-readable zines covering anarchism, trans DIY HRT guides, anti-nationalism, abolitionism, and meditation, alongside a few original works by the site creator. The collection is a thoughtfully assembled radical library with both self-authored zines and formatted reprints of influential texts, complete with print-ready PDF layouts in letter and A4 sizes.

A research guide from Dallas College Library curating digital and physical zine archives, covering topics from Black history and feminist politics to heavy metal fanzines and transgender history. Part of a broader zines research guide series, it connects students and researchers to freely accessible zine collections, preservation projects, and university zine libraries across the country.

Pratt Institute Libraries hosts this curated guide to digital zine collections, pointing researchers and enthusiasts toward archives like the Queer Zine Archive Project, POC Zine Project, and Booklet Library. It covers a remarkably broad range of zine subjects from activism and feminism to punk, comics, and poetry, making it a strong starting point for anyone exploring zine culture online.