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 240 open access books, and also publish 14 open access journals. Find out more about what else we do.
6 million book downloads and counting...
UCL Press books have been downloaded more than 6 million times in 246 countries and territories worldwide.
NEW! Open access textbooks
Introducing a brand new programme of open access textbooks, for undergraduate and postgraduate courses and modules, across a variety of disciplines Find out more about this exciting new programme.
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.
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 series on Community Responses to Climate Change. Find out more.
Latest publications
Rebuilding Public Confidence in Educational Assessment
Educational assessment is important. But in the twenty-first century it is ea...A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events
A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events explores the traces of Lo...News
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UCL Press participates in OpenUP ECR (Early Career Researcher) monograph initiative
UCL Press has joined a collaborative pilot project with five other well-established, quality-led University Presses from the UK to seek funding for a number of first books by UK-based early career ...May 27, 2022 -
Press release: Six UK university presses launch OpenUP Early Career Researcher (ECR) Monograph initiative
Six well-established University Presses from the UK (including UCL Press) are proposing a collaborative project to secure funding for a number of first books by UK-based early-career researchers. L...May 27, 2022 -
UCL Press books exceed 6 million downloads!
We are delighted to announce that UCL Press books have been downloaded more than 6 million times, just 8 months after celebrating the milestone of 5 million downloads.May 16, 2022 -
February 2022 Open Access Books
Ah, February! The month of where the world stops to celebrate and appreciate love. Our true love, of course, is open access, but we hope that you'll find something new to love amongst the six new o...March 01, 2022 -
Join our dynamic journals team!
Want to join the journals department of one of the most exciting, innovative open access publishers around? Then look no further, we're looking for a Journals Coordinator to join the UCL Press team!February 22, 2022 -
Could you be our new Production Editor?
Want to join one of the most exciting, innovative open access publishers around? Then look no further, we're looking for a Production Editor to join our dynamic team!February 18, 2022
Blog
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Heavy Curtains and deep sleep within darkness
Tsering Woeser (ཚེ ་རི ང་འོ ད་ཟེ ར) 1. My Jowo Buddha sat cross-legged in the seething and ardent chaos of fire. No time to write a poem, cry,or even allow me to search for the countles...May 26, 2022 -
Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding populism through big data
How are the Romans invoked in Brexit Britain compared to Donald Trump’s United States of America, and to what purpose? And why is it critical to answer these kinds of questions? One might think th...May 23, 2022 -
Paper Trails special update CFP: ‘Hidden Voices’
In recent years, there has been an increasing recognition of the inherent inequalities in the way collections are acquired, described, and structured amongst collection professionals. A range of wo...March 20, 2022 -
Happiness and Utility
An excerpt from the introduction of Happiness and Utility: Essays Presented to Frederick Rosen, edited by Georgios Varouxakis and Mark Philp.March 18, 2022 -
The Antarcticness of mental health and wellbeing
Today's guest post is by Ilan Kelman, editor of Antarctiness, which published this week. Its companion volume, Arcticness, published in 2017.February 10, 2022 -
Picturing the invisible: an exploration of how different disciplines view and tackle challenges
In this post, which originally appeared on Disruptive Voices by UCL Grand Challenges, Ruth Morgan explores how different disciplines view and tackle challenges, a key theme of the edited collection...January 18, 2022