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UCL Press Journals Achieve New Indexing Milestones

Posted by Ian Caswell on 2025-07-30

UCL Press is pleased to share that two more of our journals have achieved important indexing milestones: both the History Education Research Journal and UCL Open Environment have been officially indexed in Scopus. This progress reflects UCL Press’s mission to support high-quality, accessible and non-commercial academic publishing that amplifies underrepresented fields and promotes research with [...]

The Evolution of the London Review of Education: A Case Study of a Journey from Uncertainty to Stability

Posted by Ian Caswell on 2025-07-25

Founded in 2003, the London Review of Education (LRE) was established by the Institute of Education (IOE), now at UCL (University College London), to provide a dedicated space for rigorous, policy-relevant educational research. Over its two decades it has undergone a profound transformation – from a traditional subscription model facing closure, to a thriving open access publication recognised [...]

Call for Editorial Board Members

Posted by Amy Elizabeth Lynn on 2025-02-26

London Review of Education, UCL Press’s flagship fully open-access journal based in IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, is seeking to expand the membership of its editorial board.The journal publishes cutting edge research and scholarly work from across the world and particularly welcomes interdisciplinary contributions that explore and interrogate the links between research, policy and [...]

Research that resonated: celebrating our highly cited articles

Posted by Ian Caswell on 2025-01-27

UCL Press are pleased to provide a collection of some recently published and highly cited articles from recent years, that are of special interest to our journal communities. As a mission oriented not-for-profit university press publishing journals broadly across the humanities, social sciences, and environment-related sciences, we uphold our commitment to open science and scholarship by making [...]

International Day of Education 2025: Essential resources from UCL Press Journals

Posted by Ian Caswell on 2025-01-22

With Google searches for ‘AI’ skyrocketing in 2023 and the global AI market size projected to reach US$243.70bn in 2025, artificial intelligence has officially entered the zeitgeist of the 2020s. AI is reshaping how human society fundamentally functions, and the role of AI across industries will only continue to expand as AI-driven systems become increasingly sophisticated. It’s no surprise, [...]

International Open Access Week 2024 at UCL Press journals

Posted by Ian Caswell on 2024-10-24

As we celebrate this year’s International Open Access Week 2024 with the theme of 'Community over Commercialisation', we at UCL Press journals are reflecting on how we can better serve our scholarly communities. As a Diamond Open Access journal publisher, UCL Press is committed to making high-quality research freely accessible to everyone. We continuously seek ways to reduce the barriers and [...]

We've moved!

Posted by Ian Caswell on 2024-02-05

UCL Press is pleased to announce a new journals hosting partnership with Janeway, an open source scholarly publishing platform, providing a more intuitive, improved navigation experience for its global readers and greater flexibility, ownership, and efficiency for our Journals Programme as it continues to expand and grow. The UCL Press journals programme aims to create valuable opportunities [...]

UCL Press Education Journals

Posted by Ian Caswell on 2023-09-04

Publishing across a range of education related research subjects, all UCL Press education journals are: Published Open Access under the CC-BY licence to help ensure the widest possible dissemination for research and without barriers (see here for more information)Editorially independent and each supported by an Editorial Board with world leading specialist expertise in the subject areas.Fully [...]

Calls for papers

Posted by Ian Caswell on 2023-09-04

Throughout the year, UCL Press Journals launch a number of thematic special series exploring the journals aims and scope. Details of each special series and its calls for papers can be found in the below links. This page is kept up-to-date with all current special series calls for papers. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning Reimagining teachers’ work and teacher [...]

A new way to publish - UCL Open Environment

Posted by Ian Caswell on 2023-09-04

Publishing for the future of humanity. UCL Open Environment publishes and showcases the latest and most critical research on all aspects of the Environment. UCL Open Environment is a fully non-commercial, Open Science scholarly journal, publishing high impact, multi-disciplinary research, on real world environmental issues, with the overall aim of benefitting humanity. UCL Open Environment [...]

The benefits of publishing in a UCL Press Journal

Posted by Ian Caswell on 2023-09-04

UCL Press publishes a range of open access journals for the academic community, covering a broad range of topics across the humanities, social sciences and STEM subjects. In addition, our multidisciplinary journal UCL Open Environment covers a broad spectrum of environment-related research, including life and earth sciences, medical, physical, population, engineering, and social sciences. [...]