University of Westminster

University of Westminster Library

Academic Library · United Kingdom

• https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk
• uniwestpress@westminster.ac.uk

University of Westminster Press

https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk

Richard Baggaley
Email: r.baggaley@westminster.ac.uk

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
University of Westminster Press is a fully open access publisher of arts, humanities, and social science research that publishes books, journals, and policy briefs. Most of our work publishes without author-facing open access fees, but we will accept subventions for book publications if these are available. Our publications have been read widely, everywhere from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Our mission is to advance research priorities of the University of Westminster globally, extend opportunities to publish open access without author-facing fees to researchers across the globe, and to contribute to a more socially just scholarly publishing ecosystem.

• Publishing activities began: 2015
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Services distributed across library units/departments
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1
• Individual people: 1
• Students: Graduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Author fees, Grants, Library operating budget, Non-library campus budget, Sales revenue

Publishing Activities

• Grey literature
• Journals
• Monographs
• Multimedia

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Open to working with any external partner
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

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