About UCL Press journals
UCL Press Journals champions inclusive, high-quality publishing in underrepresented and emerging disciplines. As a fully non-commercial publisher, we operate exclusively on a Diamond Open Access model – removing financial barriers, upholding the highest editorial and ethical standards and providing expert publishing support at no cost to authors.
Our values of equity, inclusion and community leadership underpin everything we do. We support researchers across all career stages, disciplines and geographies, ensuring that every journal is shaped and owned by its academic community. By challenging traditional commercial publishing models, we advance a transparent, sustainable and disruptive approach to scholarly communication – where authors retain their rights, knowledge is shared openly and research reaches the widest possible audience.
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We publish a range of open access journals for the academic community, covering a broad range of topics across the humanities, social sciences and STEM subjects. All of our journals are published Diamond Open Access meaning authors are not charged any fees to publish in the journal and all publications are free to read to anyone, to help ensure the widest possible dissemination and readership. Every journal is editorially independent, each supported by its own community of Editorial Board Members, carefully appointed to provide specialist subject specific expertise.
Our journals are hosted here, but we also distribute all published articles widely to ensure maximum reach to their desired readership. We work with a large number of subject specific indexers, repositories, and search databases, including PubMed Central, Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, Dimensions, Google Scholar and many more. You can view the current indexing arrangements for each journal on the 'About' page of that journal.
We welcome submissions to our journals from the global academic community and provide a fast, efficient, inclusive, and professional, fully non-commercial publishing process, at minimal cost to authors. Please sign up to our Publishing Alerts to keep abreast of our calls for papers and new article releases.
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.
Membership
UCL Press is a trusted member of the following organisations:
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA)
Association of University Presses (AUPresses)
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
International Publishers Guild (IPG)
UCL Press financial model
UCL Press is subsidised to a large degree by UCL (University College London, UK) to provide open access publishing and it delivers significant impact for the university. Its books and journals have been downloaded in the millions around the world since it launched in 2015. UCL is committed to an Open Science future and believes that research should be made freely available to all. It therefore sees UCL Press’s open access model as a valuable and necessary investment. UCL Press has income streams from print sales, BPCs, grants and consultancy, which offset some of the institutional investment.
Open Access has its philosophical roots in the traditional values and goals of the academy – collegiality, research and knowledge creation as a shared endeavour, a collaborative approach to enquiry, the furtherance of human understanding and the diffusion of knowledge to the benefit of society at large.