As part of Open Access Week 2023: ‘Community over Commercialisation’, we’re reflecting on our role within the humanities disciplinary communities we support as a collaborative partner and advocate for humanities research and researchers.
From books with crucial, real-world impact such as Before Grenfell(Shane Ewen) and those engaging with global issues like Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights(edited by Nancy Nicol et al.) to those that support career development in the humanities such as Becoming a Historian(Penelope J. Corfield and Tim Hitchcock), our predominantly open access publishing programme opens up new research agendas, highlights the importance of humanities research in tackling contemporary challenges, and represents the unique needs and perspectives of humanities disciplines and researchers.
We have some exciting plans in place to publish new books exploring the value and future of humanities research, as well as innovative, experimental open access publications which show new models of humanities publishing, so watch this space!
As part of our unique remit in supporting the humanities research community, we also run an annual series of online training sessions on publishing and open access designed to help humanities researchers navigate a complex and changing publishing landscape. These sessions are run as part of the annual School of Advanced Study research training programme. We also run training sessions with other organisations, including Cara (the Council For At-Risk Academics) and Jisc, and at universities and postgraduate conferences. We’re also working closely with GLAM organisations in developing knowledge and understanding of open access. Recent examples include a training session delivered for the M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries, and as a proud Associate Partner on the Science Museum Group’s Museums and Industry: Long Histories of Collaboration project (2023–25), working with the project team through open access and publishing workshops.
Find out all about our training and access some of our workshop recordings via our Training Hub.
Explore the open access titles in this post below.
The University of London Press is supported by the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
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