UCL (University College London)

UCL Library

UCL Press

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
Languages published: English
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: Yes
Peer Reviewed Journals: 100%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):

Professional staff: 11

Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:

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

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)
Social Theory after the Internet (book)

Disciplinary Specialties:

anthropology
urban studies/built environment
history
education
archaeology

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs
Openness 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? Yes

Name of consortium:
Type of support:

Work with a university press? Yes

University Press Partners: UCL Press

Administer a university press? Yes

Relationship between library publishing and university press: Partner on services and publications

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:

images
multimedia/interactive content
text

Additional Services:

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

Digital Preservation Strategy:

Portico

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