Digital Technologies in Academic Publishing: Thoughts of a Journal Managing...
I have just completed my year mandate as the managing editor of the UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. Those who know me are aware that I dip my toes both in academia and the tech startup world. And...
View ArticleAfter Paris, What Do We Do Next? #COP21
This article was originally published on the UCL Development Planning Unit blog. It has been reposted with permission. After the Paris Agreement roll up your sleeves: much work will be needed, and...
View ArticleJewish Historical Studies Joins UCL Press: A Letter from the Editor
Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England is now jointly published with UCL Press. Why is this such excellent news and of historical significance in itself? In...
View ArticleWhy We Post is “the biggest, most ambitious project of its sort”, says The...
This post by Laura Haapio Kirk originally appeared on the Global Social media Project blog on 14th March. It has been reposted with permission; statistics have been updated. Since our launch on the...
View Article‘We needed a Press with vision and ambition’
For our particular project, Why We Post, the creation of UCL Press was simply the perfect answer to a key question. We had already committed to open access. This is something I am personally very...
View ArticleWhy one Early Career Researcher decided to publish in open access
I’m delighted to be working with UCL Press on the publication of Four Histories about Early Dutch Football 1910–1920: Constructing Discourses. This work will use some of the research I conducted for my...
View Article‘We are all suburbanites’
Suburban Urbanities is an edited collection that is the culmination of over seven years’ research into the urban form and social logic of metropolitan suburbs. The research considered the factors that...
View ArticleHousing – Critical Futures: ‘a critical issue at a critical time’
A research programme led by AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society) and supported by UCL Press The Housing – Critical Futures research programme confronts a critical issue at a critical time. In...
View Article‘Open access will allow us to establish a much closer dialogue’
Today’s guest blog is by Edward King, Lecturer in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies at the University of Bristol. His book, Technology, Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America will publish...
View Article1st Birthday Party for UCL Press
Today’s guest post is posted on behalf of Paul Ayris, Director of Library Services at UCL and CEO of UCL Press. 16 June 2016 was an auspicious day for UCL Press. This was the day when we held a...
View ArticleBooks on the Web, about the Web
Today’s guest post is written by Ralph Schroder and Niels Brugger, authors of the forthcoming UCL Press book The Web as History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present. The World...
View ArticleThoughts of a Journal Managing Editor: The (Blessed) Proliferation of...
Today’s guest blog is by Ira Ryk-Lakhman, PhD student at the UCL Faculty of Laws and Managing Editor of the UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. Following the footsteps of my predecessor, Ms Diana...
View ArticleWriting the Academic Book of the Future
The Academic Book of the Future is a two-year AHRC and British Library-funded project investigating the academic book in its current and emerging contexts. The Project has worked closely and...
View ArticleAnything but selfies…
In every respect we are delighted with the launch of our project. We now engage in daily interaction with the thousands of students registered on our FutureLearn course, plus many thousands more on the...
View ArticleUn Manjar: Viral Chilean slang
Today’s guest blog is by Nell Haynes, Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University and author of Social Media in Northern Chile. In Chile, “manjar” is a kind of sweet sauce, similar to...
View ArticleRemembering Sylvia Townsend Warner
Today’s guest post is by Peter Swaab, editor of the Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society and Professor of English at UCL. I’m glad to report that I’ve taken on the editing of the Journal of...
View ArticleWhy We Post Tour of Chinese Universities
Today’s guest post is by Xinyuan Wang, author of Social Media in Industrial China. Between 12th-24th September 2016, Professor Daniel Miller and two researchers on the Why We Post project, Tom...
View ArticleCall for submissions: The Radical Americas Journal
The Radical Americas Network is delighted to announce a call for submissions for the brand new Radical Americas Journal. Submissions from both early career and established scholars worldwide will be...
View ArticleLife Within Social Media: Stories from Social Media in Industrial China
Today’s guest blog is by Xinyuan Wang, author of Social Media in Industrial China In recent decades China has witnessed the largest ever migration in human history. By 2015 the number of Chinese people...
View ArticleTaking Why We Post to China
Although the Why We Post project is primarily an attempt to study the use and consequences of social media, there were other broader aims. Particularly, the hope that the project would show that while...
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