UCL (University College London)
UCL Library
UCL Press
Lara Speicher, Head of PublishingPhone: +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
- Languages published: English
- Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
- Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
- Stage Comments:
- Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
- Program Advisory/Editorial Board: Yes
- Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%
- Professional staff: 11
- 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; journals, contracted by external groups; monographs.| 2020 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference papers and proceedings, faculty | ||||
| Conference papers and proceedings, student | ||||
| Databases | ||||
| Datasets | ||||
| Educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules) | ||||
| Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) | ||||
| Journals, campus-based faculty-created | 13 | |||
| Journals, campus-based student-created | 10 | |||
| Journals, contracted by external groups | ||||
| Journals, inactive back-issues | ||||
| Monographs | 41 | |||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Technical/Research Reports | ||||
| Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses |
2020: New publications from July 2019 to June 2020. 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 offer a combination of both open access and pay-access content.
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.
| 2020 | |
|---|---|
| Journals, campus-based faculty-created | 13 |
| Journals, campus-based student-created | 10 |
| Monographs | 41 |
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)
- Social Theory after the Internet (book)
- anthropology
- urban studies/built environment
- history
- education
- archaeology
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programsOpenness to working with external 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
Part of a consortium that provides support for publishing? Are you part of a consortium which provides support for publishing
Work with a university press? yes
- University Press Partners: UCL Press
- Relationship between library publishing and university press: Partner on services and publications
Technologies & Services
- images
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- 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