UCL (University College London)
UCL Library
UCL Press
2020 CONTACT:Lara Speicher, Head of Publishing
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.
Location: United Kingdom
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: Yes
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 9.2
- Library Operating Budget: 5%
- Non-library Campus Budget: 80%
- Grants: 5%
- Sales Revenue: 10%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; monographs.2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
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Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | 9 | |||
Campus-based Student-driven Journals | 9 | |||
Databases | ||||
ETDs | ||||
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
Journals for External Groups | ||||
Monographs | 14 | |||
Newsletters | ||||
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
Technical/Research Reports | ||||
Textbooks | 2 | |||
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses |
2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.
OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.
Library-Administered University Press Publications:
For journals, include titles that published at least one article in the last twelve months. For other publication types, report items that were published or added to your repository for the first time within the last twelve months.
- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 9
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 9
- Monographs: 14
- Textbooks: 2
Highlights
- How the World Changed Social Media (book)
- Social Media in Industrial China (book)
- Brexit and Beyond (book)
- Social Media in an English Village (book)
- Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (textbook)
- anthropology
- built environment
- archaeology
- modern languages
- education
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate studentsUniversity Press Partners: UCL Press
Openess to Partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
Best publications to refer to our program: monographs; textbooks; edited collections; campus-based faculty-driven journals; campus-based student-driven journals
Technologies & Services
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- EPrints
- OJS
- 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
- Portico
Additional Information
Other Information:All our open access publications are available as free, downloadable PDFs from our website www.uclpress.co.uk. They are also available as print on demand (POD) for sale through retailers at affordable prices. Our mission is to make all our publications available to a global audience, irrespective of their ability to pay.