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ABOUT UCL PRESS
The UK’s first fully open access university press
No book processing charges for UCL authors
Publishes UCL and non-UCL authors
Launched in June 2015
Publishes scholarly monographs, short
monographs, scholarly editions, textbooks, edited collections,
journals
All books free to download as PDFs from UCL Press website (and
UCL Discovery), and available in enhanced
browser
All books also published in print, for sale through retailers at affordable
prices
All books are peer reviewed
More than 8700 direct downloads of current
titles*
UCL PRESS WEBSITEucl.ac.uk/ucl-press
BOOKS PUBLISHED 2015
books published since June 2015
books planned for 2016
8
20
JOURNALS
journals published in 2015
more planned for 2016
UCL Press academic journals hosted on Ingenta Connect (ingentaconnect.com)
2
6
All
Major research project on global social media resulting in nine monographs
Countries studied: England, China, India, Italy, Chile, Brazil, Turkey
WHY WE POST SERIES 2016
FREE PDF DOWNLOAD FIGURES*
Title Published Downloads
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology 5 Jun 2015 3136
Temptation in the Archives 5 Jun 2015 3012
Treasures from UCL 5 Jun 2015 762
Burning Bright 11 Sep 2015 757
Herman Gorter, Poems of 1890 2 Oct 15 526
Biostratigraphic and Geological Significance of Planktonic Foraminifera
22 Oct 15 644
Suburban Urbanities 12 Nov 15 438
Climate Compatible Development inMaputo, Mozambique
13 Nov 15 0
* Figures correct to 10/11/15. Figures do not include downloads via platforms other than UCL Discovery, including enhanced ebook platform, OAPEN, Unglue.it, Internet Archive, Worldreader
UCL PRESS – ENHANCED PLATFORM
Full launch:
Dec 2015
Free, online, browser-based
delivery For monographs,
enhanced digital books and BOOCS
(books as open online content)
Flexible publishing, articles of different
lengths and types,
published over a period of time
Audio, video, 3D,
slideshows, deep zoom
options
Developed by Armadillo
Systems, who created Turning the Pages and Bodleian Digital
Ability to annotate, highlight,
export, cite, share, save personalised
copies
UCL PRESS – ENHANCED PLATFORM
UCL PRESS – ENHANCED PLATFORM
ACADEMIC BOOK OF THE FUTURE BOOC
CALL FOR CONTENT: BOOC
Outputs of the research project
Peer reviewed content published as a ‘live’ book on platform
hosted by UCL Press
Presentation
Non-linear content presentation
Subjects
Concentrates on all aspects of academic publishing and its
future e.g. peer review; role of the editor; bookshops of the future; libraries; open access; digital
publishing and technology
Formats
Formats may include: videos, blogs, podcasts, short
monographs and articles
Authors invited from all areas of the academic publishing
and bookselling communities
Authors
Authors invited from all areas of the academic publishing
and bookselling communities
Launch Date
The BOOC will be launched in spring 2016 and new content will
be added throughout the year.
The AHRC/British Library Academic Book of the Future Project invites submissions for its BOOC (Book as Open Online Content)
To propose content, email 500 word (max.) abstracts to:Dr Sam Rayner
Principal Investigator of the Academic Book of the Future ProjectEmail: [email protected]