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UCL Press 2015-2025
10 years of award-winning open access publishing
UCL Press is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in June 2025. Find out more about our origins, Open Access model, the scholarly books, journals and student textbooks we have published, and their impact. You can browse our publications and download or read them online for free, anywhere in the world!
21.77 million open access downloads
418 books published
242countries and territories reached
15journals
9.1 millionjournal downloads
New titles
Co-production of Knowledge in Action
Cassidy Johnson, Vanesa Castán Broto, Wilbard Kombe, Catalina Ortiz, Barbara Lipietz, Emmanuel Osuteye, Caren Levy,
15 September 2025
Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond
Selin Çağatay, Mátyás Erdélyi, Alexandra Ghiț, Olga Gnydiuk, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Susan Zimmermann,
26 August 2025
Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations
Lise Jaillant, Claire Warwick, Paul Gooding, Katherine Aske, Glen Layne-Worthey, J. Stephen Downie,
12 June 2025
Explore FRINGE
The FRINGE series explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena.
A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together researchers from the humanities, social sciences and area studies, the series examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality and marginality, clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday practices.
Urban Informality and the Built Environment
Nerea Amorós Elorduy, Nikhilesh Sinha, Colin Marx,
12 March 2024
The Ambivalence of Power in the Twenty-First Century Economy
Vadim Radaev, Zoya Kotelnikova,
07 July 2022
Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World
Mererid Puw Davies, Sonu Shamdasani,
15 April 2020
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New open access books published in September 2025
October 1, 2025
September marks the start of a new academic year, and UCL Press welcomed it with a selection of five new open access titles. September’s releases spanned museum studies, pedagogy, urban knowledge co-production, Victorian collecting, and children’s we…
Tackling difficult histories with (museum) objects
September 29, 2025
What can a preserved animal specimen tell us about colonialism, extinction and even genocide? In this blog post, Thomas Kador reflects on the themes of his recent book Object-Based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education and consider…
Preparing Generation Z students for a volatile world through language learning
September 26, 2025
mark European Day of Languages, Kasia Łanucha and Alexander Bleistein consider the changing needs of ab initio language learners in UK universities in this excerpt from their chapter in Ab Initio Language Teaching in British Higher Education: The Cas…