Chris Penfold: A new model for open access university presses
Channel: Universität Göttingen
Date: 26/09/2017

UCL Press: a new model for open access university presses, Chris Penfold, UCL Press
Lecture held during the 20th International Conference on Electronic Publishing entitled "Positioning and Power in Academic Publishing: Players, Agents and Agendas", June 7-9 2016 at Göttingen State and University Library.

Session 7 (9 June 2016, 11.15 – 12.45), Stakeholders and their positions, Session Chair: Margo Bargheer
Further information: http://elpub.net/

Abstract: UCL Press was relaunched at UCL in June 2015, as the UK’s first fully open access university press. It publishes scholarly monographs, textbooks, edited collections, scholarly editions and journals. All publications are made freely available online in open access form and print books are also sold via retailers at an affordable price. UCL authors are funded to publish open access with the Press. This article describes its activities in more detail and offers the model as one that other institutions can follow.