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Library Publishing Directory

2019

UCL

UCL

UCL Press

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2019 CONTACT:
Lara Speicher, Publishing Manager
Phone: +44 (0) 20 3549 5749
Email: l.speicher@ucl.ac.uk

Program Overview

Grounded in the open science/open scholarship agenda, UCL Press seeks to make its published outputs available to a global audience,irrespective of their ability to pay, because UCL believes that this is the best way to tackle global grand challenges such as poverty, disease and hunger.

Publishing Activities Began: 2015
Location: United Kingdom
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: Yes
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
  • Professional staff: 5.5
  • Paraprofessional staff:
  • Graduate students:
  • Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
  • Library Materials Budget: %
  • Library Operating Budget: %
  • Non-library Campus Budget: %
  • Endowment Income: %
  • Charitable Contributions: %
  • Grants: %
  • Sales Revenue: %
  • Licensing Revenue: %
  • Charge Backs: %
  • Other: %

Publishing Activities

Open Access Publishing:
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 7

Library-Administered University Press Publications:
  • Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 4
  • Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 7
  • Journals Produced for External Groups: 4
  • Monographs: 40
  • Textbooks: 1

Highlights

Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Anthropology
  • History
  • Archaeology
  • Built Environment
Top Publications:
  • How the World Changed Social Media
  • The Sopectral Arctic
  • Fabricate
  • Mapping Society
  • Archaeologists in Print

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students
University Press Partners: UCL Press

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • images
  • multimedia/interactive content
  • text
Softwares & Platforms:
  • OJS
  • ePrints

Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Portico
Additional Services:
  • DOI distribution
  • author advisory – copyright
  • author advisory – other
  • cataloging
  • contract/license preparation
  • copyediting
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • peer review management
  • print-on-demand
  • typesetting

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
In the near future, UCL Press will be publishing 50 books a year, including more textbooks. The Press will also launch a megajournal in the environmental domain.
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