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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 165 open access books, and also publish 13 open access journals. Find out more about what else we do.

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Publish with UCL Press.

Discover the benefits of publishing your next book with the UK's first fully open access university press. You can also find out more about publishing an article in one of our open access journals.

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More than 3.5 million downloads and counting!

UCL Press books have been accessed more than 3.5 million times by readers in 244 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 issue on Water and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 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 science communities – including 5 new open access journals in the field of education.

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News

Autumn Update: September and October 2020

Last week was Open Access Week, a week long celebration of all things open access- including UCL Press books. As part of it, we ran a webinar exploring the experiences of two of our authors: Prof B...
November 03, 2020
Welcoming History Education Research Journal (HERJ) to UCL Press and ScienceOpen

We are delighted to announce that History Education Research Journal is the latest journal based at the UCL Institute of Education to be hosted on ScienceOpen, as part of the UCL Press family.
October 20, 2020
Welcoming Research for All to UCL Press and ScienceOpen

We are pleased to announce that Research for All is the latest journal based at the UCL Institute of Education to be hosted on ScienceOpen, as part of the UCL Press family. In conjunction with th...
September 22, 2020
Summer Update: July and August 2020

COVID-19 has seen our publishing team, and most of our authors and editors, all move to remote working. We’re really proud that, in spite of this, we’ve continued to publish into our busy books pro...
September 08, 2020
Welcoming the London Review of Education to UCL Press and ScienceOpen

We are pleased to announce the London Review of Education (LRE) is the latest Institute of Education Press journal to be hosted on ScienceOpen as part of the UCL Press family. In conjunction with t...
July 21, 2020
Publication of "Refuge in a Moving World"

We are delighted to announce that 'Refuge in a Moving World - Tracing Refugee and Migrant Journeys Across Disciplines', edited by Refugee Hosts and Southern Responses to Displacement Principal Inve...
July 17, 2020

Blog

Does class size matter? We’ll get a better answer if we rethink the debate

For many teachers, large classes present problems which adversely affect their practice and their pupils’ learning. This is what our surveys show. But researchers and commentators often have a diff...
November 19, 2020
Suburban Urbanities: 5 years on

This blog post, by Professor Laura Vaughan, originally appeared on the Mapping Urban Form and Society blog on 12th November 2020. Today is the 5th anniversary since the publication of Suburban Urba...
November 13, 2020
Watch our webinar: Author Experiences of Publishing Open Access Books

Last week was open access week, and, as part of a UCL-wide series to celebrate the new Office of Open Science and Scholarship, UCL Press was involved in a number of webinars. We've had a lot of req...
October 29, 2020
CfP: UCL Open: Environment special issue about Water and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

UCL Open: Environment is opening a call for papers concerned with the theme of Water and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
October 20, 2020
Open Access Week Webinar: Author Experiences of Publishing OA Books

UCL Press invites you to join a free lunchtime webinar in which authors explore how their experiences of publishing have changed their perspective on open access books. --------------------------...
October 13, 2020
One million downloads for anthropological book series on Social Media

Ethnographic monographs usually sell just a few hundred copies. How, then, did an eleven volume anthropological series about the use and consequences of social media called Why We Post just pass on...
July 14, 2020

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