Zines and Self-Published Materials

Barnard College collects zines related to feminism, gender, activism, and popular culture. Barnard has a large physical zine collection, but many are available online. This Barnard website also contains a wealth of information, from zine basics to an international list of zine libraries.

The DC Punk Archive Zine Library is a virtual collection of zines gathered from individual DC Punk Archive donors. Many of the zines are about, and often authored by, members of the DC music scene. They include interviews, concert reviews, record reviews, and photos of DC punk artists. The zines date from the mid-1970s to the present, though the majority are from the 1980s.

The Zine Web Archive was created to supplement the Library of Congress’s physical zine collection. Collection priorities include zines by people of color, women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ individuals and organizations.

This is a collection of over 60,000 zines that have been added to the Internet Archive. They cover a wide range of topics, including politics, art, creative writing, and personal theory.

POC Zine Project’s mission is to make zines by POC (People of Color) easy to find, distribute, and share. POC Zine Project initiatives include events that center POC-authored publications; an archive; digital platforms that share POC zines; and grants, tools and events for zinesters.

The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) launched in November 2003 to preserve queer zines and make them available digitally to queer people, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone with an interest in DIY publishing and underground queer communities.

The zine collection at the University of Miami Libraries Special Collections contains over 5,000 items, and seeks to provide an overview of the "who, what, when, where, why" of the zine world. The library’s holdings place an emphasis on South Florida publications. Only a selection of zines have been digitized.