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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 140 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 million times by readers in 240 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!

STOP PRESS. NEW call for submissions, "COVID-19, Interactions with our Environment" special series. 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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Call for submissions, "COVID-19 and interactions with our environment"

Help us to shape the future - during and after the current COVID-19 pandemic During the last months, the Coronavirus pandemic has changed the lives of many and had a more or less direct effect on ...
May 13, 2020
UCL Press exceeds three million book downloads!

We’re really pleased to announce that this April our total downloads figure went over 3 million for the very first time, just ahead of our 5th anniversary next month! You can see the full details h...
April 23, 2020
Academic Book Week, Monday March 9th - Friday March 13th

Next week is Academic Book Week, an event launched in 2015, as an annual, five-day celebration of the diversity, innovation and influence of academic books. Initiated by staff at UCL as part of th...
March 03, 2020
UCL Press Round-up for February 2020

February has been a really exciting, and busy, month at UCL Press, we’ve published a brand new online resource, Case Studies in Perioperative Medicine, and 4 more titles – across the built environm...
February 25, 2020
UCL Press Round-up for January

Happy New Year! We’re really proud to kick off 2020 with an exhibition of some of our recent, and most popular, publications in the UCL main library – you’ll find us in the large display cabinet, h...
January 21, 2020
UCL Press News for December

In December we published New Islamic Urbanism. In addition, we published three new Journal Special Issues, one in the London Journal of Canadian Studies, and the other ones starting in Europe and t...
December 16, 2019

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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
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

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