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UCL Press 2015-2025
10 years of award-winning open access publishing
UCL Press is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in June 2025. Find out more about our origins, Open Access model, the scholarly books, journals and student textbooks we have published, and their impact. You can browse our publications and download or read them online for free, anywhere in the world!
27.02 million open access downloads
430 books published
242countries and territories reached
15journals
13.97 millionjournal downloads
New titles
Unearthing Collections
Magdalena Buchczyk, Martín Fonck, Tomás J. Usón, Tina Palaić,
24 November 2025
Evaluating Anti-Trafficking Interventions
Ella Cockbain, Aiden Sidebottom, Sheldon X. Zhang,
18 November 2025
Co-production of Knowledge in Action
Cassidy Johnson, Vanesa Castán Broto, Wilbard Kombe, Catalina Ortiz, Barbara Lipietz, Emmanuel Osuteye, Caren Levy,
15 September 2025
Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond
Selin Çağatay, Mátyás Erdélyi, Alexandra Ghiț, Olga Gnydiuk, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Susan Zimmermann,
26 August 2025
COP30: Explore Our Climate and Sustainability Collection
As COP30 gets underway, we’ve pulled together a selection of open access books and journals tackling the big questions on climate change, environmental justice and sustainable futures. From practical solutions for greener cities to global perspectives on policy and activism, these titles bring fresh thinking to urgent challenges.
Highlights include Universities and Climate Action, Haste: The slow politics of climate urgency, Obstacles to Environmental Progress: A U.S. perspective and our multidisciplinary open science journal UCL Open: Environment. Every title is free to read and share – because knowledge should power action.
Browse the collection on the right.
Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region
William Wheeler,
25 October 2021
Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development in Maputo, Mozambique
Vanesa Castán Broto, Jonathan Ensor, Emily Boyd, Charlotte Allen, Carlos Seventine, Domingos Augusto Macucule, Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary,
01 November 2015
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COP30 reading list
November 21, 2025
As COP30 comes to an end, we’ve pulled together a selection of open access books and journals tackling the big questions on climate change, environmental justice and sustainable futures.
World Children’s Day reading list
November 20, 2025
Celebrate World Children’s Day with our collection of open access books on childhood, inequality, play and early education. Free to read and share.
Introducing UCL Press Play’s second season
November 4, 2025
How well do we really understand the human mind? That’s the big question at the heart of the new season of UCL Press Play.