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

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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 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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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
New home and new issue for the International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning

The International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning (IJDEGL) is the second journal, following on from Film Education Journal, to move from the Institute of Education Press to UCL...
July 06, 2020

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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
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
Elite knowledge and imperial power in the ancient Middle East, Part I of II

Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanin...
December 03, 2019
Elite knowledge and imperial power in the ancient Middle East, Part II of II

Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanin...
December 03, 2019
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

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