UCL
UCL
UCL Press
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):
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 studentsUniversity 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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