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.

Publishing Activities Began: 2015
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

Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:

Library Operating Budget: 5%
Non-library Campus Budget: 80%
Grants: 5%
Sales Revenue: 10%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: campus-based faculty-driven journals; campus-based student-driven journals; monographs; textbooks.

	2019	Open Access	Paid	Hybrid
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

Top Publications:

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)

Disciplinary Specialties:

anthropology
built environment
archaeology
modern languages
education

Partners

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

Media Formats:

images
multimedia/interactive content
text

Softwares & Platforms:

EPrints
OJS

Additional Services:

DOI distribution
author advisory – copyright
author advisory – other
cataloging
contract/license preparation
copy-editing
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
graphic design (print or web)
marketing
metadata
outreach
peer review management
print-on-demand
typesetting

Digital Preservation Strategy:

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.

Highlighted Publication

Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography

From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated book, Laura Vaughan examines maps of ethnic or religious difference, poverty, and health inequalities, demonstrating how they not only serve as historical records of social enquiry, but also constitute inscriptions of social patterns that have been etched deeply on the surface of cities.