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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 185 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 million downloads and counting!

UCL Press books have been accessed more than 4 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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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
Spring/Summer Catalogue now available!

We're delighted to announce the publication of our latest catalogue! Covering Spring and Summer 2021, it's packed full of essential reading including new titles in Anthropology, Archaeology, Histo...
March 15, 2021
UCL Press celebrates 4 millionth download!

We’re delighted to announce that our books have now been accessed more than 4 million times- just 10 months after we reached the 3 million mark! You can see the full details here. Since launching i...
February 26, 2021
February 2021 publications

The days are starting to get longer, there's some light at the end of the tunnel with new vaccines, and we published three more beautiful open access books in February! Georgette Heyer: An Un-Confe...
February 24, 2021
Four books and a journal- what we published in January!

January's snow has brought a change of scenery for those of us who have been in lockdown. However, it hasn't stopped UCL Press from publishing four new open access books (including two in the major...
January 25, 2021
Welcoming Archaeology International to UCL Press

UCL Press is delighted to announce the UCL Institute of Archaeology journal Archaeology International is the latest addition to its journals portfolio.
January 14, 2021

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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
CfP: UCL Open: Environment special issue about Water and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

UCL Open: Environment has opened a call for papers concerned with the theme of Water and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
March 22, 2021
Launch event: Geographic Citizen Science Design: No one left behind (23rd March, 5-6pm GMT)

We are delighted to inform you about a launch event to celebrate the publication of Geographic Citizen Science Design: No one left behind, including a keynote by Susanne Hecker, Chair of the Europe...
March 19, 2021
Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe online launch event (16th March 2021, 5pm GMT)

Join the UCL European Institute for a panel event to celebrate the publication of Queer Migration and Asylum in Europe, a new volume from UCL Press edited by Richard C.M. Mole, Professor of Politic...
March 15, 2021
Georgette Heyer: A Century Spent Having a Ball (an un-conference) on 25 February 2021

2021 sees the centenary of the publication of Georgette Heyer’s first novel, The Black Moth, whose legacy UCL Press is recognising through the publication (on 25th February 2021) of a series of ess...
February 26, 2021
Could you be our new textbook manager?

Are you an experienced textbook professional looking to take the next step? Does the prospect of creating and managing a brand new open access textbook programme make you excited? Want to join one...
January 08, 2021

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