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

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UCL Press News for November

November sees us publish 3 new titles, including a novel; and to add to the excitement we have gone over the 2.5 million downloads mark across our book content. See here for information on how our ...
November 15, 2019
New UCL Press Titles for October

October sees the publication of 4 titles, all of which are available to download open access from our website. Outrage The Rise of Religious Offence in Contemporary South Asia Edited by Paul Rollie...
October 14, 2019
UCL Press… New Summer titles…

An overview of some of our new Summer highlights. Worlds in Miniature Contemplating Miniaturisation in Global Material Culture Edited by Jack Davy and Charlotte Dixon Miniaturisation is the creatio...
September 20, 2019
Call for Papers for ‘Paper Trails’ a new open access publication with UCL Press

Often there is more than research inside the books we read. Bookmarks, train tickets, receipts, and menus tucked into pages offer clues about the life of the book itself. Yet the lives of our resea...
August 27, 2019
First article published in UCL Open megajournal

UCL’s new megajournal ‘UCL Open’ has published its first article, delivering on our commitment to provide academics, students and the general public with ground-breaking research free of charge.
August 02, 2019
UCL’s innovative open access megajournal starts taking submissions

UCL Press has launched its new open access megajournal ‘UCL Open’ and will start accepting academic research submissions from today (January 31, 2019). It is the first university megajournal pro...
January 31, 2019

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Architecture and Fire, A Psychoanalytic Approach to Conservation

This book deals closely with fire. The nature of this element and our perception of it are ambiguous: fire is both good and evil. The French philosopher Gaston Bachelard speculates that fire must h...
November 08, 2019
Open Access Week 2019

A round-up of recent developments With Open Access Week 2019 upon us it is worth having a round-up of the plethora of activities, announcements and reports that have recently been announced, in pa...
October 22, 2019
OA Anthropology journals workshop, LSE, September 2019

In September, LSE held a one-day workshop organized by Dr Andrea Pia (LSE Anthropology), and funded by the LSE Department of Anthropology through the Research Infrastructure and Investment Fund, to...
October 04, 2019
Mapping Society Author to give Eila Campbell Memorial Lecture

Professor Laura Vaughan has been selected to give the prestigious biennial Eila Campbell Memorial Lecture at Birkbeck about her recent book Mapping Society.
May 21, 2019
Open Call for Volume 3 of the Global Encyclopaedia of Informality

Professor Alena V. Ledeneva and the Global Informality Project International Board invite you to submit entries for the Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 3.
April 25, 2019
Book launch: Re-mapping the Centre and Periphery

We are delighted to announce a book launch to celebrate the publication of the new open access book Re-mapping the Centre and Periphery, edited by Tessa Hauswedell, Axel Körner, and Ulrich Tiedau T...
April 23, 2019

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