Where to find our open access books and journals

UCL Press proudly partners with the following services to deliver quality open access books and journals:

Our books are also freely available via Google Books and Google Play.

All UCL Press books and journals are also preserved using Portico.

Statement on COUNTER compliance

UCL Press distributes its open access books to a number of global content platforms, in order to ensure widespread access to the content we publish. Some of the platforms we work with are COUNTER compliant, but not all. COUNTER is a community-led organisation that provides a global standard for measuring and reporting content usage through normalised metrics. For now, UCL Press will continue to distribute its books to non-COUNTER compliant platforms as this supports our ethos to make our books as widely available as possible to both academic and non-academic audiences. We are working with the open access publishing community to lobby distribution platforms to adopt COUNTER in order to ensure that usage data is reported as consistently as possible. 

More information on COUNTER can be found here: 

https://www.countermetrics.org/

How we collect our books readership data

The statistics that we collect come from a variety of sources, each of which collects and reports upon data in a different way. 

The table below shows the data that we collect from each platform, which we then collate and display on our statistics pages, which are updated monthly.

Platform	Measure	Country/Territory information provided?	How often is this data updated?	Counter-Compliant?
UCL Discovery	Book downloads	Yes	Daily	Yes
www.ucldigitalpress.co.uk	Book visits	Yes	Daily	No
JSTOR	Chapter downloads	Yes	Monthly	Yes
OAPEN	Book downloads	Yes	Monthly	Yes
Google Books	Book views (2+pages)	No	Monthly	No
Google Play	Book downloads	Yes	Monthly	No