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.
6 million book downloads and counting...
UCL Press books have been downloaded more than 6 million times in 246 countries and territories worldwide.
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.
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.
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.
Latest publications
Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt
In an era when many of us depend on debt to survive but struggle with its con...Rethinking Heritage for Sustainable Development
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the UN in 2015 have influ...News
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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 -
Press release: Six UK university presses launch OpenUP Early Career Researcher (ECR) Monograph initiative
Six well-established University Presses from the UK (including UCL Press) are proposing a collaborative project to secure funding for a number of first books by UK-based early-career researchers. L...May 27, 2022 -
UCL Press books exceed 6 million downloads!
We are delighted to announce that UCL Press books have been downloaded more than 6 million times, just 8 months after celebrating the milestone of 5 million downloads.May 16, 2022 -
February 2022 Open Access Books
Ah, February! The month of where the world stops to celebrate and appreciate love. Our true love, of course, is open access, but we hope that you'll find something new to love amongst the six new o...March 01, 2022 -
Join our dynamic journals team!
Want to join the journals department of one of the most exciting, innovative open access publishers around? Then look no further, we're looking for a Journals Coordinator to join the UCL Press team!February 22, 2022 -
Could you be our new Production Editor?
Want to join one of the most exciting, innovative open access publishers around? Then look no further, we're looking for a Production Editor to join our dynamic team!February 18, 2022
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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 -
From ‘bare life’ to ‘moving things’: on the materiality of (forced) migration
Contemporary social life under the conditions of global capitalism is fundamentally determined by things. This human–thing relationship seems quasi-natural. Things are, of course, essential in carr...June 20, 2022 -
Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected Writings
Today sees the publication of a brand new open access book of Millicent Garrett Fawcett's writings edited by Prof Melissa Terras and Elizabeth Crawford. The first scholarly appraisal of Fawcett in ...June 09, 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 -
Heavy Curtains and deep sleep within darkness
Tsering Woeser (ཚེ ་རི ང་འོ ད་ཟེ ར) 1. My Jowo Buddha sat cross-legged in the seething and ardent chaos of fire. No time to write a poem, cry,or even allow me to search for the countles...May 26, 2022 -
Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding populism through big data
How are the Romans invoked in Brexit Britain compared to Donald Trump’s United States of America, and to what purpose? And why is it critical to answer these kinds of questions? One might think th...May 23, 2022