University of London Press profiled in the Bookseller
We’re very pleased to have been profiled by the Bookseller as part of their University Press special issue!
Our Head of Publishing, Paula Kennedy, spoke to the Bookseller’s Tom Tivnan about our strategy for growth, Open Access, and the challenges and opportunities of humanities publishing today.
Paula said: “We’re a non-profit organisation, we’re a small team but I think the stats [for the OA downloads] really show the potential for the model for the kind of work on our list. I’ve come from commercial academic publishing and the thought of having 75,000 readers for a single humanities monograph? I would have killed for that kind of reach. And without being too worthy, our books can have an impact. Two of our three top OA titles are about LGBTQ+ in places across the Commonwealth where those sexual identities are criminalised. It’s important to get these books into OA for audiences in regions where people are otherwise not going to be able to access them through a university library model.”
(The book referenced is Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth, which, as of September 2023, has been downloaded 74,633 times).
The article also included several other key titles, including Freedom Seekers, Before Grenfell, Law, Humanities and the COVID Crisis and Queer Between the Covers.
Visit the Bookseller’s site to read the full article (subscriber-only content).