Library Publishing Directory

London School of Economics and Political Science

LSE Library

Academic Library · United Kingdom

LSE Press

https://press.lse.ac.uk

Lucy Lambe, Scholarly Communications Officer
Email: lse.publishing@lse.ac.uk

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Launched in May 2018, LSE Press supports the promotion of high-quality social science research and enables wide public access through the use of open, digital publication methods. We publish books and journals and encourage and facilitate innovative and experimental publications. LSE Press works with authors to develop and launch publications that reflect the LSE founding purpose and mission.
  • Publishing activities began: 2018
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: English; Arabic; Portuguese

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: Yes
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 5
  • Individual people: 5
  • Students: Graduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Endowment income, Library materials budget, Sales revenue

Publishing Activities

  • Journals
  • Monographs


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 5
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 2
  • Contracted by external groups: 3
  • Peer-reviewed: 5
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 5
  • Peer-reviewed: 5

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Advanced Macroeconomics: An Easy Guide (textbook)
  • How Did Britain Come to This? A Century of Systemic Failures of Governance (monograph)
  • Spectrum Auctions Designing Markets to Benefit the Public, Industry and the Economy (monograph)
  • Journal of Illicit Economies and Development (journal)
  • Journal of Long Term Care (journal)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Public policy
  • Economics
  • International relations
  • Health policy
  • International development

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
    Houghton St Press is an imprint of LSE Press and publishes 16 student journals.
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  • Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners but only if in our disciplinary specialty
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • Ubiquity platforms
Additional Services:
  • assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
  • Indexing services (e.g.
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • analytics
  • dataset management
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • CLOCKSS
  • LOCKSS

Policies

  • Intellectual Property: https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/research-integrity/
  • Authorship: https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/research-integrity/
  • Conflicts of interest/Competing interests: https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/research-integrity/
  • EDI at LSE Press: https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/about/
  • Publishing Ethics Policy: https://press.lse.ac.uk/site/research-integrity/

    • Adopted Policies:
    Even UP statement on EDI; Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

    Additional Information

    Future Plans:
    LSE Press features in the LSE 2030 Strategy as part of the "LSE Research for the World" priority. The Press has a goal to increase the number of books published each year.
    Other Information:
    Student work is published through our Houghton St Press imprint, both as part of taught programs and as discrete student-led publication enterprises.