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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 240 open access books, and also publish 14 open access journals. Find out more about what else we do.

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6 million book downloads and counting...

UCL Press books have been downloaded more than 6 million times in 246 countries and territories worldwide.

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NEW! Open access textbooks

Introducing a brand new programme of open access textbooks, for undergraduate and postgraduate courses and modules, across a variety of disciplines Find out more about this exciting new programme.

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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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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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July 2022 open access books

Summer is finally here, and we've got some wonderful reading for those of you who are taking a well-earned break (and those who aren't).
August 01, 2022
Expected or not? The UK’s exceptional record-breaking weather

In June 2021, when the evidence report for the 3rd UK climate risk assessment (CCRA3) was released, talk was of southern England summer temperatures over 40°C being experienced sometime “before 205...
July 25, 2022
New issue of London Review of Education reflects on IOE’s legacy of educational and social thought and practice

London Review of Education (LRE), marks IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society's 120th year with a special issue celebrating the past and ongoing influence of the faculty in educational and so...
July 14, 2022
June 2022 open access books

June brought us pioneering feminists, a timely reassessment of how we look at debt, and a fascinating look into heritage and sustainable development.
June 30, 2022
May 2022 open access books

From conversations about the things that really matter in life and London's mega-events to how we can rebuild public confidence in educational assessment and tales of a glorious career in academia,...
May 31, 2022
UCL Press participates in OpenUP ECR (Early Career Researcher) monograph initiative

UCL Press has joined a collaborative pilot project with five other well-established, quality-led University Presses from the UK to seek funding for a number of first books by UK-based early career ...
May 27, 2022

Blog

The importance of indigenous knowledge

On International Day of World's Indigenous Peoples, we bring you an except from Zeremariam Fre's superb Knowledge Sovereignty among African Cattle Herders, which argues for the role of indigenous k...
August 09, 2022
Expected or not? The UK’s exceptional record-breaking weather

In June 2021, when the evidence report for the 3rd UK climate risk assessment (CCRA3) was released, talk was of southern England summer temperatures over 40°C being experienced sometime “before 205...
July 25, 2022
Fieldwork in a time of crisis

Today's guest post, by Jayaseelan Raj, discusses just what it's like to be an ethnographer in your own community. His experiences and findings for the basis for his brand new open access book Plant...
July 14, 2022
Is Inclusion an illusion?

This week saw the publication of an important new open access book for anyone interested in inclusive education: The Inclusion Illusion: How children with special educational needs experience main...
July 07, 2022
A Tribute to Professor Marcelle BouDagher-Fadel

UCL Press is saddened by the recent death of Professor Marcelle BouDagher-Fadel, whose landmark books Biostratigraphic and Geological Significance of Planktonic Foraminifera and Evolution and Geolo...
July 04, 2022
June 2022 open access books

June brought us pioneering feminists, a timely reassessment of how we look at debt, and a fascinating look into heritage and sustainable development.
June 30, 2022

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