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A collection of scanned punk and hardcore zines available as free PDFs, assembled by a dedicated archivist who wants to preserve underground music culture. Highlights include issues of Maximum Rock N Roll, tour zines, anarcho-vegan cookbooks, and interviews with bands from Boston, Philadelphia, Iceland, and beyond.

Slash Seconds is an internationally edited online publishing project, initiated by Derek Horton and Peter Lewis, featuring text, visual art, moving image, and sound-based work from a global roster of artists, academics, and curators. Published quarterly and supported by Leeds Metropolitan University, the project brings together experimental and critical cultural contributions from contributors like Runa Islam, Michael Nyman, and numerous others.

GEOZONe is an archive of radical geographic zines and print ephemera, collecting over 80 titles that explore themes like abolition, urban geography, climate politics, housing justice, and community mapping. The collection spans deeply political and experimental works, from strike zines to queer school charters to guides on gentrification, making it a remarkable repository for radical geography enthusiasts and activists.

TAZ-LAZ is a community zine distribution network that guides people in setting up their own free zine boxes in public spaces, similar to little free libraries. The site covers everything from choosing weatherproof box hardware to maintaining and restocking locations, making it a practical resource for grassroots zine sharing.

ZineLibraries.info is the home of the Zine Librarians Interest Group, a collective dedicated to sharing resources, expertise, and best practices for building and maintaining zine collections in libraries and archives worldwide. Founded in 2007, the site offers guides on cataloging, collection policy, shelving, workshops, and events like the Zine Librarians unConference and International Zine Library Day.

Plokta is a twice Hugo-winning science fiction fanzine edited by Alison Scott, Steve Davies, and Mike Scott, with over 41 paper issues and 25 converted to HTML for the web. The online archive includes bonus features like color photos, jokes, and hyperlinks to referenced sites, making it a rich piece of SF fan publishing history.

Unfogged is a long-running group blog with multiple contributors including Ogged, Fontana Labs, Heebie-Geebie, and others, covering politics, current events, and everyday musings in a lively community format. Posts touch on topics from hurricane damage to Trump administration policy, and the active comment sections often run into the dozens, making the discussion as valuable as the posts themselves.

The Zine Union Catalog is a collaborative library catalog dedicated to zines, bringing together partner libraries to make zine collections searchable and discoverable in one place. Visitors can browse objects, collections, people and organizations, and works through an advanced search interface powered by CollectiveAccess.

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.

Brad Enslen's personal blog covers a lively mix of political commentary, tech observations, and offbeat humor in a short-post microblog style. The site also features a personal directory, a movies section, and connections to IndieWeb webrings, making it a charming corner of the independent web.