University College London (UCL)
University College London (UCL)
UCL Pressuclpresspublishing@ucl.ac.uk
ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press
Twitter: @uclpress Instagram: @uclpress
United Kingdom
Primary Contact:
Lara Speicher
Publishing Manager
Program Overview
UCL Press is the first fully Open Access University Press in the UK. It seeks to use modern technologies and 21st-century means of publishing/dissemination radically to change the prevailing models for the publication of research outputs. Grounded in the Open Science/Open Scholarship agenda, UCL Press will seek 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, hunger.
Year publishing activities began: 2015
Organization: Centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: 6
Funding sources (%):
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5): 5
Open access focus (1–5): 5
Advisory/editorial board: Yes
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2018: 2 Textbooks; 34 Monographs; 4 journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups; 4 campus-based faculty-driven journals
Library publications in 2018: 7 campus-based student driven journals
Number of open access titles: ALL titles are open access
Number of paid titles: 0
Number of hybrid titles: 0
Media formats: PDF, HTML, Print
Disciplinary specialties: Anthropology, Archaeology, Built Environment, History
Top publications: How the World Changed Social Media (book); Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City (Book); Fabricate: Rethinking Design and Construction (Book); Memorandoms of James Martin: An Astonishing Escape from Early New South Wales (Book); Architecture_mps (journal)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs): 0
Internal partners: campus departments/ programs; individual faculty; graduate and undergraduate students
External partners: UK Publishers Association, ALPSP, IPG
Publishing platform(s): ePrints; OJS for student journals
Digital preservation strategy: Portico
Additional services:
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: From 2017/18, UCL Press will be publishing 50 books a yearView All Entries