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UCL Press

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 190 open access books, and also publish 14 open access journals. Find out more about what else we do.

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UCL Research Collections

Powered by Scienceopen, each UCL research collection indexes published articles, book chapters, preprints, databases by all UCL academics into a single, themed collection. Collections currently available focus on UCL's COVID-19 research and UCL and the Sustainable Development Goals.

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More than 4.5 million downloads and counting!

UCL Press books have been accessed more than 4.5 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 sciences – including 5 open access journals focusing on education.

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News

New open access books published in June 2021

The sun appeared for at least part of June, providing a welcome respite after a relentless Winter of lockdowns. We published five new open access books (including two charming UCL-related titles) t...
July 01, 2021
How and Why to Read and Create Children’s Digital Books wins UKLA Academic Book Award 2021

We are delighted to announce that is delighted to announce that How and Why to Read and Create Children’s Digital Books: A Guide for Primary Practitioners by Natalia Kucirkova has won the prestigi...
June 15, 2021
New book edition explores the history of the IOE in the 21st century

A new open access edition of the UCL Institute of Education: From training college to global institution has been published, including two new chapters covering UCL Institute of Education’s (IOE) h...
June 08, 2021
May 2021 Open Access Books

May may have been rainy (in the UK, at least), but it started with a bang for UCL Press! The publication of The Global Smartphone, and its sister volumes Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland and Agei...
June 01, 2021
Smartphones have led to the ‘death of proximity’

Brand new open access book The Global Smartphone: Beyond a youth technology details a ground breaking UCL study across nine countries that shows smartphones are more than devices we use, they’re ‘t...
May 10, 2021
Open Access books published in April

Easter has come and gone, and Spring has finally sprung! UCL Press published five wonderful new open access books in April, covering everything from the technology behind Renaissance entertainments...
April 30, 2021

Blog

‘They explode with gayness’: Polish queer migration and self-realisation

This Pride Month, we're highlighting some of our open access books that shed light on the experiences of some members of the LGBTQI+ community. Prof. This piece is by Richard Mole, whose new Ope...
June 01, 2021
Hitting national (and international) headlines with The Global Smartphone!

We are delighted that The Global Smartphone: Beyond a youth technology (published on May 6th 2021) has hit the headlines across the world, with coverage in newspapers including The Sunday Times, Th...
May 11, 2021
Author Spotlight: Jack Green and Ros Henry on Olga Tufnell

The open access book Olga Tufnell’s 'Perfect Journey': Letters and photographs of an archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean published earlier this week. It tells the fascinating tale of a O...
April 30, 2021
Launch event: On Boredom - Essays in Art and Writing (27 April 2021, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm)

UCL Press, the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) and the UCL Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art are very pleased to announce a launch event to celebrate the publication of On Boredom: ...
April 20, 2021
Book Launch Event: Encountering Pain: Hearing, Seeing, Speaking

UCL Press and the UCL institute of Advanced Studies are very pleased to launch the open access book Encountering Pain: Hearing, Seeing, Speaking with editors, Dr Deborah Padfield and Prof Joanna M ...
March 29, 2021
RE-CENTRING THE CITY: Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity, a Book Launch

Join Yale University (European Studies Council, Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies), UCL (Perverting the Power Vertical (PPV); the FRINGE Centre; the School of Slavonic and East...
March 23, 2021

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