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UCL Press

The UK's first fully open access university press.

Launched in 2015, UCL Press has quickly established itself as a high-quality open access university press. We have published more than 200 open access books, and also publish 14 open access journals. Find out more about what else we do.

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UCL Research Collections

Powered by Scienceopen, each UCL research collection indexes published articles, book chapters, preprints, databases by all UCL academics into a single, themed collection. Collections currently available focus on UCL's COVID-19 research and UCL and the Sustainable Development Goals.

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More than 5 million downloads and counting!

UCL Press books have been accessed more than 5.1 million times by readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide. Find out more about which of our titles are being accessed, and in which areas of the world our downloads are happening.

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A new way to publish...

Introducing UCL Open: Environment, a new interdisciplinary open science journal that publishes environment-related research – now open for submissions!

NEW CALL FOR PAPERS! Special series on Community Responses to Climate Change. Find out more.

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Open Access Academic Journals.

Our open access journals cover a broad range of topics across the humanities and social sciences – including 5 open access journals focusing on education.

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News

UCL Press books exceed five million book downloads

We are delighted to announce that UCL Press books have now been downloaded more than 5 million times. You can see the full details here. Since launching in 2015, we’ve published more than 200 acade...
October 11, 2021
Planned maintenance 28-30th August

Due to planned maintenance work between Saturday 28th to Monday 30th August, some links on our website may not function as normal. UCL Press books can be accessed via JSTOR during this period. Acce...
August 27, 2021
New open access books published in June 2021

The sun appeared for at least part of June, providing a welcome respite after a relentless Winter of lockdowns. We published five new open access books (including two charming UCL-related titles) t...
July 01, 2021
How and Why to Read and Create Children’s Digital Books wins UKLA Academic Book Award 2021

We are delighted to announce that is delighted to announce that How and Why to Read and Create Children’s Digital Books: A Guide for Primary Practitioners by Natalia Kucirkova has won the prestigi...
June 15, 2021
New book edition explores the history of the IOE in the 21st century

A new open access edition of the UCL Institute of Education: From training college to global institution has been published, including two new chapters covering UCL Institute of Education’s (IOE) h...
June 08, 2021
May 2021 Open Access Books

May may have been rainy (in the UK, at least), but it started with a bang for UCL Press! The publication of The Global Smartphone, and its sister volumes Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland and Agei...
June 01, 2021

Blog

Beards and texts: reading images of masculinity in medieval German literature

Seb Coxon explains what got him interested in researching how beards are portrayed in medieval German literary texts, and how we make make sense of this. His new book, Beards and Texts: Images of m...
November 22, 2021
The Modernist Bestiary: a new life for an old form of expression

Timothy Mathews into The Modernist Bestiary, a collection which engages with animals, art, and aesthetic, exploring “productive dialogue between thought and art.” The contributions, co-edited with ...
November 15, 2021
CfP: UCL Open: Environment - Community Responses to Climate Change

As Climate experts from across UCL attend the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference (COP26), UCL Open: Environment, invites submissions for a special series focusing on community responses ...
November 09, 2021
A Tribute to Professor Berry Mayall

UCL Press is saddened by the recent death of Professor Berry Mayall, following a long illness. One of the earliest sociologists of childhood she was, for more than 40 years, a fierce scholarly voic...
November 05, 2021
‘They explode with gayness’: Polish queer migration and self-realisation

This Pride Month, we're highlighting some of our open access books that shed light on the experiences of some members of the LGBTQI+ community. Prof. This piece is by Richard Mole, whose new Ope...
June 01, 2021
Hitting national (and international) headlines with The Global Smartphone!

We are delighted that The Global Smartphone: Beyond a youth technology (published on May 6th 2021) has hit the headlines across the world, with coverage in newspapers including The Sunday Times, Th...
May 11, 2021

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