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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 180 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 4.06 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 new open access journals in the field of education.

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News

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
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
New series in Education: Knowledge and the Curriculum

A new book series edited by UCL Institute of Education (IOE) academics on Knowledge and the Curriculum launches today (7 January).
January 07, 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...
January 03, 2021
New UCL Research Collections

UCL Press, in partnership with ScienceOpen, has recently launched a new platform that presents themed collections of UCL-authored research.
December 17, 2020

Blog

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
Action research: how can we turn around our students’ experiences in the classroom so they reflect the humanistic values we believe in?

Ever since I first walked into a classroom in an Inner London comprehensive as a student teacher in 1986, my primary aim, like many other new entrants to the profession, was to make a difference t...
November 27, 2020
Download outage 26/11/2020

Update: 27/11/20, 6am Service has now been restored and downloads are back to normal. 26/11/20 Unfortunately, on 26/11/20, UCL is currently experiencing a systems outage, which is having an impact ...
November 26, 2020
Does class size matter? We’ll get a better answer if we rethink the debate

For many teachers, large classes present problems which adversely affect their practice and their pupils’ learning. This is what our surveys show. But researchers and commentators often have a diff...
November 19, 2020
Suburban Urbanities: 5 years on

This blog post, by Professor Laura Vaughan, originally appeared on the Mapping Urban Form and Society blog on 12th November 2020. Today is the 5th anniversary since the publication of Suburban Urba...
November 13, 2020

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