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INTERNATIONAL OPEN ACCESS WEEK 2023 – Collaborating within the Open Access space

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October 27, 2023

In this post for International #OpenAccessWeek, we’re focusing on our collaboration with a range of Open Access (OA) organisations which we’ve been building over the last couple of years. We have worked closely with Jisc on several projects, includin…

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INTERNATIONAL OPEN ACCESS WEEK 2023 – Participating in the wider publishing community

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October 26, 2023

This week, as part of the Open Access Week 2023 ‘Community over Commercialisation’ theme, we’re highlighting some of the organisations and communities the University of London Press is involved with. Today’s focus is our work with the wider publishin…

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INTERNATIONAL OPEN ACCESS WEEK 2023 – Advocating for humanities research and researchers

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October 25, 2023

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 b…

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University of London Press selected for second year of Jisc funding

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October 24, 2023

The University of London Press is proud to announce that it is one of three publishers to be included in the second year of Jisc’s innovative Open Access Community Framework (OACF) project. Following the success of the project last year, in which the…

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INTERNATIONAL OPEN ACCESS WEEK 2023 – Publishing partnerships

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October 24, 2023

The theme of Open Access Week this year is ‘Community over Commercialisation’. As a non-profit, predominantly open access university press, a commitment to community over commercialisation is at the heart of how we operate.  We are an integral p…

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Seized Books!

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October 19, 2023

Events: LGBTQ+ books and censorship in 1980s Britain, related to Queer Between the Covers The Seized Books! project at the University of London focuses on 140 titles seized in a 1984 raid on Gay’s the Word bookshop in Bloomsbury by HM Customs, who de…

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University of London Press launches new interactive online reading platform

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July 27, 2023

Alongside the launch of a new website and branding, the University of London Press has also launched its very own instance of the digital scholarly publishing platform, Manifold. The platform allows the publication of networked, iterative, media-rich…

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New site and branding launched

July 12, 2023

Welcome to our new site! We hope you’re able to find everything you’re looking for. It may help to check out our FAQs. We’re excited to share our new logo and branding, which reflects our evolution as a publisher. Our new strapline, ‘Opening up human…

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Funding target reached!

May 24, 2023

The University of London Press was delighted to successfully secure funding through a new Jisc model that aims to support sustainable and affordable open-access publishing. The funding is being used to support the scaling up of the New Historical Per…

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