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2022 Library Publishing Directory

UCL (University College London)

UCL

UCL Press

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Lara Speicher, Head of Publishing
Email: uclpresspublishing@ucl.ac.uk

Program Overview

  • To publish high-quality and cutting-edge research outputs
  • To achieve maximum global reach and impact for its publications and achieve wide engagement with global audiences
  • To support the field of academic publishing through practice, training, research, and sharing of data
  • To represent a range of key academic research interests, with a particular focus on the arts, humanities, and social sciences
  • To support early career researchers and first book publishing
  • To uphold a strong commitment to research and publication ethics
  • To demonstrate a commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion in all its activities
  • To promote the integration of research and education in the outputs of the Press
  • Shares UCL’s commitment to sustainability: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/policy-and-strategy

  • Publishing activities began: 2015
  • Location: United Kingdom
  • Languages published: English
  • Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Stage of publishing efforts (1-3): 3 - Established
  • Stage comments:
  • 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: expansive digital publications (digital humanities or other complex multimedia projects); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; monographs; digital online materials- aka "BOOCs".

  2021 Open access Paid Hybrid
Conference papers and proceedings, faculty
Conference papers and proceedings, student
Databases
Datasets
Educational resources (e.g., textbooks, course modules)
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
Journals, campus-based faculty-created 14
Journals, campus-based student-created 9
Journals, contracted by external groups
Journals, inactive back issues
Monographs 48
Newsletters
Technical/research reports
Undergraduate capstones/honors theses
Other publishing activities:
digital online materials- aka "BOOCs" (1)

2021: New publications from July 2020 to June 2021. 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.


  2021
Journals, campus-based faculty-created 13
Journals, campus-based student-created 9
Monographs 41

Highlights

Top publications:
  • How the World Changed Social Media (book)
  • The Global Smartphone (book)
  • What Should Schools Teach? (book)
  • Social Media in an English Village (book)
  • Social Theory after the Internet (book)
Disciplinary specialties:
  • anthropology
  • built environment
  • archaeology
  • education
  • history

Partners

Internal partners: campus departments or programs

Openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners but only if in our disciplinary specialty

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?

Work with a university press?
  • University press partner: UCL Press
Administer a university press?

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

Additional Information

Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:
Recently appointed a Textbook Programme Manager to work on creation of a textbook programme.
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