UCL Press The story so far. June 2015 December 2016

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1 UCL Press The story so far June 2015 December 2016

2 Contents Message from the UCL Vice-Provost (Research), Prof David Price 2 Preface by UCL Press CEO, Paul Ayris 3 Introduction 4 Open access 6 Publishing activity year 1 8 Published books and journals Books and journals publishing Digital innovation 12 Subject areas 14 Author stories 16 Impact 20 Review coverage 22 Distribution 24 Conference presentations by UCL Press 25 Social media and marketing 26 Global engagement 28 Countries where UCL Press books have been downloaded 28 Worldreader 29 Projects that address global challenges 30 Translations How the World Changed Social Media 31 Student engagement 32 Student journals 32 Student editor stories 32 UCL Press textbooks 34 Future plans 36 Who we are and what we do 38 Governance 40 Finances

3 Message from the UCL Vice-Provost (Research), Professor David Price Preface by UCL Press CEO, Paul Ayris Scholarly outputs the products of academic inquiry and analysis are typically subjected to a publications process that, in effect, prevents or limits their more widespread dissemination. These publications are frequently hidden away from the majority of people who cannot pay to access them; indeed, they are made inaccessible to many of those who are in a position to act upon and apply the insights they contain. UCL is committed to being a force for good and enlightenment in the world. This includes ensuring that the products of its research are made as widely available as possible. This is why our university has been a leader in its engagement with Open Access, and our flagship initiative in this area is UCL Press, the UK s first fully Open Access university press. The quality and diversity of its publications are exhilarating, and it is deeply gratifying to know that its outputs are being enthusiastically devoured across the world. I congratulate the UCL Press team and their authors for their success in developing such rich and compelling content, and for their effectiveness in bringing it to new readers. UCL Press serves our institutional mission and, through it, humanity. We look forward to even greater and more innovative achievements from it in the future. UCL Press is the UK s first fully Open Access university press and its sits in one of the great universities of the world. In the fifteenth century, the invention of moveable type printing in the West revolutionised the way that ideas were disseminated. The Reformation, for example, would not have been possible without the invention of printing presses. The Protestants, in particular, took advantage of the printing press to spread their learning across Europe. The Bible in the vernacular was a particular hallmark of Protestant thinking and, in England, Tyndale s New Testament in English was smuggled into the country, but seized and physically destroyed as heretical. So powerful was the opposition to new ideas and new ways of disseminating them. In the 21st century, the importance of the Internet and ideas like Open Access have the power to transform the way that concepts are recorded and transmitted. Open Access is a revolution because it enables anyone anywhere in the world to access publications, without their ability to pay or not to pay being a barrier to access. Open Access also means that universities can re-assert their role in the scholarly publishing cycle, enabling universities such as UCL to create their own publishing imprints. The numbers of downloads received by UCL Press publications show that there is an appetite for UCL s research outputs and textbooks. As with the invention of moveable type printing in the West by Gutenberg, so Open Access has the power to transform the way people disseminate and access knowledge. UCL Press shows that this university is well aware of the revolution that is happening in scholarly publishing and wants to assert a leadership role in that regard. 2 3

4 Introduction UCL Press is the first UK university press to launch with a completely open access business model. This means that all its books are made available freely online for anyone to read, regardless of their ability to pay or their institutional affiliation. As long as readers have an internet connection, they can read our books online. UCL Press launched its first publications on 4 June Its inaugural title was Temptation in the Archives: Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture by eminent historian Lisa Jardine, who spoke passionately at the UCL Press launch party about her belief in open access publication for research. The Press also published a beautifully illustrated book showcasing UCL s Special Collections of manuscripts, incunabula and important archives, Treasures from UCL, and a book about the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, published to mark the 100 th anniversary of the museum s opening, which has gone on to become UCL Press s best-selling book in print. few books by authors at their own institution. UCL Press is proud to promote the research of its own academics and to see their books being so widely read. All UCL Press books are published as a free PDF, a browser-based enhanced version (also free) and affordably priced print editions. Since its inception, UCL Press has expanded from one member of staff to five, has published 16 books, and plans to increase to publishing 50 books and 8 journals by At the time of writing (September 2016) its books and journals have been downloaded nearly 75,000 times in over 174 countries. Key facts about UCL Press > UCL Press is the UK s first fully open access university press > Launched in June 2015 > All books made available freely online, to download, and sold in print > UCL Press has published 25 books and 6 journals since launch* Left to right: Paul Ayris (UCL Press CEO), David Price (Vice Provost, Research), Lisa Jardine (Author, Temptation in the Archives), Michael Arthur (UCL Provost and President) UCL Press is proud to promote the research of UCL s academics and to see their books being so widely read As the UK s first university press to make all of its publications open access, the launch attracted media attention and much interest from academics at UCL wishing to publish with the press. It received around 100 book proposals in the year following its first call for proposals, demonstrating a strong interest at UCL in publishing with its home institution, and publishing in open access, and has gone on to receive over 200 book and journal proposals. This turns the traditional university press model on its head both in terms of immediate open access availability, but also because most university presses publish > By 2018, UCL Press plans to publish 50 books a year > Number of downloads: over 100,000 since launch > Global reach: books downloaded in over 190 countries > UCL Press publishes scholarly monographs, textbooks, journals, and hosts student journals > The most downloaded book to date is How the World Changed Social Media: over 38,000 downloads since March 2016 UCL Press Launch Party Gillian Furlong (Editor, Treasures from UCL) UCL Press, 1st birthday party cupcakes * figures correct at December

5 Open access UCL Press is the first UK university press to make all its outputs available in open access form from the outset. UCL took this decision because it believes that making research available to all free of charge can help address some of the world s greatest challenges. Increasingly, funders are introducing policies that require open access book and article outputs from funded research projects. For the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2020, it is a requirement that journal articles and conference proceedings are made available in an open access repository within three months of acceptance (but initially publication), in order to be eligible for the REF. There is no mandate for open access monographs at present. However, many academics at UCL are already keen to publish their books in open access because they want their work to be read as widely as possible. Free online publication means that my work and ideas will be available to as many people as possible. Dr Nicholas Piercey, author of Four Histories about Early Dutch Football Australian Open Access Support Group: Benefits of Open Access by Danny Kingsley and Sarah Brown 6 7

6 Publishing activity year 1 Published books and journals November 2015 March 2016 August 2016 UCL Press has published books on a wide range of subjects, reflecting the diversity of subjects taught at UCL, including anthropology, urban studies, Dutch studies, art history, Egyptology, geology, science and poetry in translation. They have been downloaded many times since first publication. October June 2015 June 2015 October 2015 March 2016 Journals March June 2015 March 2016 June 2016 September 2015 November * Figures correct at December

7 Books and journals publishing October downloads September downloads September downloads March 2017 October downloads March 2017 December 2016 October downloads January 2017 November downloads October downloads December 2016 Journals February 2017 February 2017 *Figures correct at December

8 Digital innovation UCL Press s browser-based platform provides innovative ways to publish and reading research Enhanced digital editions For highly illustrated multimedia books Features: > Slideshows >Deep zoom > 3D > Audio > Video > Dual navigation thematic and chronological Scholarly monographs For monographs and textbooks Features: > Highlighting > Note-taking > Save personalised copies > Share extracts, annotations > Citation > Bookmarking BOOC (Books as Open Online Content) For ongoing books featuring a range of article types Features: > Living book, added to over time > Short and long articles > Blogs > Videos > Multiple navigation feature, by genre and theme > Comment function 12 13

9 Subject areas UCL Press is open to publishing in all subject areas taught at UCL. So far, the main subject areas the Press has embraced are anthropology, archaeology, urban studies, Dutch studies and history. However, the number of proposals for science books monographs, textbooks, history of science and popular science is growing. These are the schools, departments and institutes the Press has worked with so far. INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS ANTHROPOLOGY THE BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE THE SLADE SCHOOL OF ART HISTORY CENTRE FOR EDITING LIVES AND LETTERS CENTRE FOR PUBLISHING LAWS SCHOOL OF EUROPEAN LANGUAGES, CULTURE AND SOCIETY PETRIE MUSEUM OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY ART HISTORY CLASSICS PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION GRAND CHALLENGES CENTRE FOR ADVANCED LEARNING AND TEACHING SCHOOL OF SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES ENGLISH ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL PROSPERITY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES EAR INSTITUTE SCHOOL OF PHARMACY INSTITUTE OF RISK AND DISASTER REDUCTION MULLARD SPACE SCIENCE LABORATORY 14 15

10 Author stories Professor Daniel Miller Author of Social Media in an English Village Professor Daniel Miller and co-author of How the World Changed Social Media in the Why We Post series 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 committed to, and had previously published a paper advocating open access in an anthropology journal. I was very disappointed with the current models of Green and Gold and wanted what I think of as genuine open access, which inevitably means publication being taken back into the university system and thereby saving huge sums for libraries. I feel this strongly as an anthropologist since we need to make our findings accessible to lowincome people in low-income countries which are the populations that we typically study I have published 37 books and was particularly impressed by the fast turnaround [by UCL Press] from submission of final manuscripts. We are happy that there are also relatively inexpensive offline paperbacks for those who prefer physical books. But if I was to pick out one particular achievement which matters to an anthropologist it is that our books are being read in 145 countries with thousands of downloads recorded for countries as diverse as Turkey, Russia, Poland, Japan and Mexico. We needed a Press with vision and ambition. The UCL Press team understands and values the deeply personal nature of their authors contributions. Dr Nicholas Piercey Dr Nicholas Piercey Author of Four Histories about Early Dutch Football, I was particularly keen to work with UCL Press because of their commitment to open access publication, which I see as a revolutionary development in academic publishing. Free online publication means that my work and ideas will be available to as many people as possible, without the barriers often in place in traditional academic publishing models. I m pleased to be taking part at an early stage in this change in academic publishing. In addition, open access publishing has given me the opportunity to provide additional data and content online which will encourage other individuals to create their own histories about the past which is a central theme of my work. As a young academic, and first time author, I have loved the encouragement given by everyone at UCL Press in this project, from the initial proposal to the final stages of publication. At every stage the team has always been ready to listen to suggestions and to guide me through the difficulties and surprises involved in bringing my ideas to a wider audience. While the staff at UCL Press are ambitious in developing an ever increasing number of titles, I have always felt that the team has taken a hands on approach to the process and both understand and value the deeply personal nature of their authors contributions. Professor Laura Vaughan Author of Suburban Urbanities As an early adopter of open access through UCL s repository, UCL Press seemed like an ideal choice for Suburban Urbanities, given that it is a university press dedicated to full open access. A surprising bonus has been the fast turnaround, from submission in April 2015 to publication in November At the same time the visual and material quality of both online and print version is excellent indeed, one of the book s reviewers commented that it is a book that looks and feels beautiful. Most important for me has been the immediate impact of the book. Alongside its thousands of downloads (more than 4,000 at last count) in 88 countries, it has had impact in all sorts of unexpected places: featuring in The Atlantic in its CityLab blog and an activist in New Zealand has been tweeting excerpts of the book at his local planning authority to raise various policy issues. My hope is that it will continue to resonate far and wide as we continue to battle with the complexity of suburban urbanity in future years

11 Author stories Lily lives with her parents, younger brother and sister in two small single rooms and shares a toilet with two other rural migrant families. One day after work Lily was working with her QQ via a smartphone, a Huawei smartphone which she had bought for 1,850 RMB (US$ 308). She was captivated by the online world, as if she had completely forgotten where she was. After a while she looked up to see me suffering a lot from the heat and attack from mosquitos. Life outside the mobile phone is unbearable, huh? Lily observed. Xinyuan Wang Author of Social Media in Industrial China In the past decades China has witnessed the largest ever migration in human history. In 2015 the number of Chinese peasants who had left their villages to work in factories and cities had risen to 277 million. If Chinese migrant workers were the population of a country, it would be the fourth largest in the world, and they are the human faces behind Made-in-China. While Made-in-China products have become so pervasive in our daily life, people who produce them remain largely unknown to us and readers will be surprised by the sophisticated use of social media among Chinese factory workers. Home village is a place you always miss, but not really a place you want to return to, as Hua said. Like Hua, many rural migrants see their home village more as a spiritual comfort, rather than a practical option. On social media, all the bad memories and negative associations of village life and homeland seemed to be expunged, leaving only the ideal, purified images to give people comfort. Rather than physically coming back to their homeland, floating rural migrants transplanted their homeland to social media so that wherever they go their homeland follows along. But homeland is not the only place which is rebuilt on social media. To many, social media is also where they actually live, as I argue in my book. Life outside the smartphone is unbearable Lily, a 19-year-old factory girl, spends almost every single waking minute on her social media QQ when she is working on the factory assembly line. Lily s QQ profile is a stylish space with a lot of beautiful photos and pop music she collects from the internet. Online Lily is surrounded by a group of admirers and she talks as if she was a princess who is waiting for true love: In my life I have always dreamt about my true love. He will treat me very well, protect me from all uncertainty, displacement, sadness, and loneliness. However, I always know that that person will never turn up. This is a typical posting on Lily s QQ. However, Lily never talks in this manner offline. In this small factory town, Lily s question forced me to think about the question, where do people live? In this small factory town, I met many young rural migrants who have moved all the way from their villages to live geographically closer to a modern China, but it seems that it is only online that they actually arrive there. For many migrant workers, social media has become the place where they can at least visualise and achieve their aspiration towards modernity. In fact, in addition to the rural-urban migration, my study witnessed a parallel migration from off-line to on-line

12 Impact Since launching in June 2015, UCL Press s books and journals have been downloaded over 100,000 times. As can be seen from the individual download figures on page 8, the range is between 1,000 downloads and 38,000 for individual titles. In an era when scholarly monographs are selling in ever lower quantities, with typical sales reported by publishers in the region of 300 copies globally in their lifetime, open access can clearly be seen to reach readers, and indeed provides a new way of publishing scholarly research. We need to make our findings accessible to low-income people in low-income countries which are the populations we typically study. Professor Daniel Miller *Figures correct at December

13 Review coverage Treasures from UCL by Gillian Furlong The layout and lavish illustration show that [UCL Press] is well able to compete with the doyens of treasures book publishing. Library & Information History The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology by Alice Stevenson et al In summary, The Petrie Museum: Characters and Collections is a must-read for any person interested in the ethical treatment, display, and publication of a collection of objects from a foreign country. Stevenson and her contributors masterfully demonstrate the vivid history, colourful characters, astounding objects, and the main objectives of the Petrie Museum within 120 short pages. Birminghamegyptology.co.uk Herman Gorter: Poems of 1890 A Selection, translated by Paul Vincent A free e-book of Herman Gorter s Poems of 1890: A Selection (UCL Press) is a rare gift to the English-reading world. Translating highly lyrical poetry is probably the most challenging thing for a translator, but time and again Paul Vincent succeeds in suggesting something of the genius of the most important Dutch lyrical poet. Times Higher Education Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development in Maputo, Mozambique This English/Portuguese book is an example of how participatory planning, which puts citizens at the heart of community improvement, can facilitate local responses to climate change challenges. Focusing on the partnerships between governments and communities in Maputo, Mozambique, this bilingual compilation highlights key lessons of climate compatible development for urban managers, practitioners, academics, policy makers, citizens and activists. Social Media in an English Village by Danny Miller (Why We Post series) Quotes and other bits of evidence make the book easy to comprehend and very relatable. This thought-provoking publication will appeal to both the curious layperson and media scholars, no doubt igniting introspection about our own use of social media. LSE Review of Books Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street edited by Laura Vaughan UCL Press should be commended for producing a book that looks and feels beautiful: it is a physical item that any scholar interested in the urban should want on their shelf. LSE Review of Books Suburban Urbanities is a hugely important contribution to understanding our suburban world. ban world. Thinking Cities Temptation in the Archives: Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture by Lisa Jardine Temptation in the Archives feels refreshingly personal, accessible yet rigorous. Jardine never resorts to a tone of certainty or rigid conviction. Instead she invites her reader to join in her game, to engage in her light-hearted yet serious play, her serio ludere in the archives. ves. Times Higher Education Burning Bright: Essays in Honour of David Bindman edited by Diana Dethloff, Tessa Murdoch and Kim Sloan with Caroline Elam Burning Bright is a delightful tribute to Bindman s wide-ranging interests and influence. The Art Newspaper Environmentandurbanization.org 22 23

14 PROJECT MUSE INGENTA Distribution All UCL Press books are made available as free PDFs via its own website, via OAPEN (the main European platform for hosting open access books) and other sites such as unglue.it and Worldreader. JSTOR launched its open access monograph platform in autumn 2016 and UCL Press was one of the first publishers to join. The books are also made available in an enhanced browser-based format, featuring multiple navigation routes, slideshows, deep zoom, highlighting, note-taking, sharing, saving personalized copies, audio, video and comment functions (see Digital Innovation section, page 12). All books are also sold in print and ebook form via online and traditional retailers at affordable prices. JSTOR WORLDREADER UNGLUE.IT OAPEN UCL Discovery FREE PDFS UCL PRESS BOOKS Conference presentations by UCL Press ENHANCED BROWSER- BASED FORMAT BOOKS SOLD IN PRINT EBOOKS London Info International, Dec 2016 Summit of the Book, Limerick, Nov 2016 Academic Book of the Future showcase, British Library 2016 AV in Scholarly Publishing, British Library 2016 British Canadian Society conference, British Library 2016 The University Press Redux conference, Liverpool University 2016 ElPub, Gottingen 2016 RLUK conference, British Library 2016 London Book Fair, OA panel 2016 OA Publishing Models, Cambridge University Union 2016 Gregynog Colloquium, Gregynog 2016 CPD25: OA and Repositories, London 2016 OAI9, Geneva 2015 Futurebook: Academic Book of the Future, London 2015 Society of Young Publishers conference, Oxford Brookes University 2015 OA Week, Publishers panel, QMUL 2015 Open Access Conference; Open Access Week, UCL 2015 Digifest: Institution as E-textbook publisher (Jisc)

15 Social media and marketing UCL Press has an active social media presence, with more than 3,000 followers on Twitter. Each book and journal benefits from a bespoke marketing plan including launch events, mailings and much more. Societies UCL Press is a member of: > ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishing) > IPG (Independent Publishers Guild) > LPC (Library Publishing Coalition) > PA (Publishers Association) > AEUP (Association of European University Presses) > UKSG Authors Tom McDonald, Xinyuan Wang and Daniel Miller Professor Laura Vaughan at the launch of Suburban Urbanities. Photo Dr Tasos Varoudis. Website Twitter Instagram 26 27

16 Global engagement UCL Press titles have been downloaded in over 190 countries around the world, demonstrating the wide reach that can be achieved via open access. Free PDFs of UCL Press books can be downloaded anywhere in the world on any device, as long as you have an internet connection. This is a major benefit for people in countries where print copies are difficult to buy, either because physical distribution is limited, or because books would be unaffordable. Countries where UCL Press books have been downloaded Rest of the World Australia Japan Italy Worldreader In spring 2016, UCL Press joined Worldreader, a non-profit organization whose mission is to bring digital books to every child and their family, so that they can improve their lives. All UCL Press titles are made available on Worldreader s platform, which delivers free ebooks and free ereaders to the Global South, in partnership with leading publishers. This partnership demonstrates not only UCL s commitment to removing the barriers to quality scholarly content, but also to addressing the grand challenges of the Global South. We are delighted to announce this partnership. Paul Ayris, CEO of UCL Press, and Director of UCL Library Services This partnership demonstrates UCL s commitment to removing the barriers to quality scholarly content. Dr Paul Ayris, CEO of UCL Press and Director of UCL Library Services This initiative fits neatly with UCL s new Global Engagement Strategy, which expresses our commitment to maximising impact from research through open access. Making scholarship more easily and cheaply available to a wider range of countries speaks in particular to one of our strategic drivers: increasing global independent research capability. And it is in tune with the spirit of a generous partner, and the concept of partnerships of equivalence. So I am delighted that UCL is teaming up with Worldreader to offer this. Dame Nicola Brewer, Vice-Provost (International) Spain China India Brazil Canada Germany Netherlands United States France United Kingdom 28 29

17 Projects that address global challenges Translations How the World Changed Social Media Amps ARCHITECTURE_MEDIA_POLITICS_SOCIETY Housing: Critical Futures In 2017, UCL Press will launch the first book in the Housing: Critical Futures series. This research project brings together architects, policy makers, activists, government, charities and academics, to address the major global housing challenge. The first book in the series will be From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing, and the series reflects a series of global conferences. The Housing: Critical Futures research programme confronts a critical issue at a critical time. In London, a leading capital of global finance, there is a chronic shortage of affordable housing for those who service the service sector. The crisis is at levels not seen since World War II. In Beijing, capital of the 21st century s political powerhouse, the displacement of long-standing communities is a daily occurrence. In Mumbai, the biggest health risk faced by the city today has been identified as overcrowded housing, while in São Paulo, football s 2014 World Cup took place against a backdrop of community unrest and the chronic living conditions of the poor. Graham Cairns, Director, AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society) UCL Press is publishing all 11 monographs in the Why We Post series, the outcomes of a European Research Council research project which studied social media usage around the world. Nine anthropologists each spent 15 months studying social media usage in eight different countries. UCL Press is publishing a monograph about each country, a volume that compares all nine field sites, and a highly visual book about Facebook posts in England and Trinidad. How the World Changed Social Media has been UCL Press s most downloaded book to date, with more than 38,000 copies downloaded in 140 countries to date. In September 2016, the project lead, Daniel Miller, and the authors of Social Media in Industrial China (Xinyuan Wang) and Social Media in Rural China (Tom McDonald) will be undertaking a tour of Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Beijing, and Shanghai and giving talks at universities and research institutes to promote the books in China. In 2017, UCL Press will publish translations of How the World Changed Social Media in all the languages of the field sites: Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Italian, Tamil, Hindi and Turkish, all in open access. This will help to disseminate the book globally on an even greater scale. Portuguese Chinese Spanish Italian Hindi Turkish Tamil 30 31

18 Student engagement Student editor stories UCL Press provides an open access journal publishing platform, that allows students to produce and publish their own journals. UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence Ira Ryk-Lakhman, Managing Editor, UCL JLJ 2015/16 Object: Graduate Art History Journal Sena Lee, Co-Editor, Object 17 We currently support seven student journals, several of which have now been established for some time. Students gain immense experience from the process of producing a journal: commissioning and evaluating articles, managing the peer review process, copyediting, picture research and copyright clearance, digital publication and marketing. Many of the journals publish work by both students and by academics. UCL Press provides the platform hosting, maintenance and development, training, technical support, DOI registration and marketing support for the journals. This is an area of growing interest to HEIs, many of which will meet at a conference in December to discuss support for student publishing. Student journals Think Pieces The UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence is a law journal edited and published by graduate (Masters and PhD) students of UCL Laws, now in its 4th year. The Journal publishes scholarly contributions from academics, researchers and practitioners, as well as showcasing outstanding research of postgraduate students at UCL. The Journal s primary aim is to make a high-quality contribution to current debates on local and global issues of law and jurisprudence. We seek to add to the vibrant intellectual life of UCL s world leading law school, a place where originality and innovation are highly prized, and where the shared pursuit of ideas remains fundamental to the Faculty s continuing success. Importantly, the Journal was one of the first law journals in the UK to fully implement an open access policy and offer all its issues and contributions freely available online since its very first issue in Object is a journal produced entirely by graduate students in the History of Art Department at UCL, which has been produced in print form for the last 16 years. The contents of each edition represent the diversity of issues and methodologies with which graduate students in the department are currently engaged. Drawing upon object and theory-based analyses, the studies within Object indicate a continual questioning and renegotiation of meaning in the visual arts. The seventeenth edition of Object was published in open access form online for the first time this year, with the intention while maintaining the journal s core values of wider distribution, increased readership and public engagement via the department s growing digital platform. Having now published our journal on UCL Press s OJS platform, the impact of our articles and reviews has become more visible. On the website, our contributors and readers can check the most up to date information on where their journal has been downloaded internationally. It is wonderful to see that Object is attracting readers from all over the world, which made us more passionate about our research activities. It was extremely rewarding because I could attain a more comprehensive perspective on the practical workings of the academic world. I came to see how my studies can be positioned in a larger academic context and how I can grow as an academic. We all worked hard to produce Object online for the first time and had a wonderful departmental celebration during which we could share all the challenges we encountered over several glasses of wine. Although it feels like an important turning point to be launching online, I am fully aware that this is just the beginning of a journey. The new digital platform offers a glimpse of the potential yet to be explored. Fellow students liked the interface. And perhaps due to its enhanced visibility, the proposals for submission have increased this year so we now have two editors and three deputy editors working on the new edition

19 UCL Press textbooks In July 2016, UCL Press launched the first of its open access textbooks, Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, written and edited by experts at UCL and the Royal Free Hospital. It was supported by a grant from JISC to participate in its Institution as E-textbook Publisher project, in which four HEIs and their university presses are producing two textbooks each, in order to assess the viability and the challenges of institutions taking on their own textbook publishing. The project will run until all the books are published and have reported on a year of distribution activity in Like all UCL Press books, the Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is available as a free PDF and an affordably priced print copy. In addition, it is available as an interactive app, with scholarly functionality and animations. UCL Press s second textbook, Key Concepts in Public Archaeology, will be published in early 2017, and the Press is actively seeking to increase its textbook publishing programme

20 Future plans Growth Growth in published outputs UCL Press will increase the number of titles it is publishing from around 20 in 2016 to around 35 in It plans to expand to 50 titles in The number of journals it publishes will increase to 8 in 2017 and to 10 by North American distribution In 2017, UCL Press will appoint a North American distribution partner, to help promote its books in North America, as part of its plans to increase its global visibility. 20 Books in Journals in 2016 European open access consortium In August 2016, UCL Press joined OPERAS, a European collective of publishers whose main goal is to introduce the principle of Open Access into European scholarly communication and to ensure effective dissemination and global access to research results. Student publishing UCL Press will participate in a national conference of HEIs in 2017 to review the growing interest in supporting student journal publishing, as part of the increasing move to incorporate research into student teaching. At UCL, this is reflected in the Connected Curriculum initiative, led by the Centre for Advanced Learning and Teaching. UCL will be publishing a book about the subject: A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education by Dilly Fung in University Press Redux In Spring 2018, UCL Press will host the second university press conference ever held in the UK. The first was hosted by Liverpool University Press in March 2016, and was attended by over 150 delegates from the UK, US and Europe, who gathered to discuss the challenges and opportunities of university press publishing. Open access platforms UCL Press will be publishing its journals on Project MUSE from Spring 2017, and its books have recently been made available on JSTOR, all in open access. In autumn 2016, Ingenta launched Ingenta Open, a new platform dedicated to open access books and journals. These are all wellestablished scholarly publishing platforms, and UCL Press hopes to increase the visibility of its output by joining them. Publishing services In 2017, UCL Press will roll out a publishing services model for other institutions to set up their own open access publishing imprints. The institution would publish books in its own name, and UCL Press will provide set-up and ongoing editorial and production services, to help facilitate the publishing process via its existing in-house production department. 35 Books in Books in Journals in Journals in

21 Who we are and what we do Senior Management, UCL Library Services CEO, UCL Press Paul Ayris Dr Ayris has been Director of UCL Library Services since 1997 and became Pro- Vice Provost in November He is also the UCL Copyright Officer. Dr Ayris was the President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) ; he is now Advisor to the LIBER Board. He is Co-Chair of the LERU (League of European Research Universities) Community of Chief Information Officers. He chairs the OAI Organizing Committee for the Cern Workshops on Innovations in Scholarly Communication. He is the Chair of JISC Collections Content Strategy Group. On 1 August 2013, Dr Ayris also became Chief Executive of UCL Press. He is a member of the Provost and President s Senior Management Team in UCL. He has a PhD in Ecclesiastical History and publishes on English Reformation Studies. Assistant Director (Support Services) Martin Moyle As Assistant Director (Support Services), UCL Library Services, Martin s remit includes responsibility for all of UCL s open access services, including UCL Press. Martin was directly involved in establishing UCL Press and sits on UCL Press s main Board and on its Executive Group, advising and steering the Press. He works closely with the Publishing Manager to develop the Press s business model and digital presence, and advocates for the Press nationally and internationally in his wider role in the HEI library sector. UCL Press team Publishing Manager Lara Speicher Lara joined UCL in 2013 and set the Press up from scratch with CEO Paul Ayris (Director of UCL Library Services) and Martin Moyle (Assistant Director [Support Services], UCL Library Services), with support from the UCL Press Board. Lara previously held roles at British Library Publishing, BBC Books and Thames and Hudson, and has experience of all aspects of publishing including editorial and production, sales, marketing, distribution, foreign rights and illustrated book publishing. Her role in the Press is to oversee the overall operation including business development and planning, operations, strategy and budget. Commissioning Editor Chris Penfold Chris joined the Press in August 2015 from Palgrave Macmillan where he worked on Film, Media and Cultural Studies lists for three years, in various editorial capacities. His PhD in Soviet film history was very useful to him in this role. By the time he left Palgrave, he was commissioning 90 books a year from a wide range of academics. His role at UCL is to acquire new books from authors at UCL and beyond. His role involves meeting authors, assessing book proposals, presenting proposals at UCL Press s Editorial Board, managing the peer review process and assessing the delivered manuscripts. Marketing and Distribution Manager Alison Major Alison joined the Press in July 2015 from Wolters Kluwer (previously Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins), a leading global medical, nursing and health professions publisher, where she held a variety of positions in the international marketing department, including Africa, Middle East and Brazil, where she worked on improving the company s footprint in a rapidly developing market. At UCL Press Alison manages both the marketing and the sales and distribution of UCL Press books and journals using social media, newsletters, website, competitions, review copies, adverts and launches. On the sales side, she manages the Press s UK distribution and sales reps, and is currently actively seeking a US distribution partner. Managing Editor Jaimee Biggins Jaimee joined the Press in August 2014 from OUP, where she had been a Production Editor and then Team Leader in OUP s academic division. As well as working in the Head Office in Oxford, Jaimee spent four years working at OUP in New York. Jaimee s role starts when the author has delivered their final manuscript. She oversees the editorial and production processes, working with freelance suppliers and the author, checking their work at all stages of the copy-editing and proofing process. She also manages the distribution of final files to printers and online platforms. Admin Assistant Elli Sullivan Elli has been with UCL Press since December 2015 and joined us from Perth, Australia, where she was an Administration Officer for a charity that optimised the lives of people living with disabilities. She had always wanted to travel, so she planned to come to England to work, travel and experience a different lifestyle. In her role with UCL Press, she looks after the Press s finance administration, collates download statistics from various platforms, manages electronic file uploads and distribution, prepares Powerpoint presentations for the many conferences UCL Press staff present at, undertakes mailings, manages meetings and travel arrangements, and helps organise events and book launches

22 Governance UCL Press Board The UCL Press Board meets once a term and its role is to review the overall development, strategy, policies and finances of the Press. It consists of senior academics from UCL, as well as UCL Library Services and UCL Press staff. Chair: Professor David Price, Vice-Provost (Research) Dr Paul Ayris, Director of UCL Library Services and CEO of UCL Press Professor Becky Francis, Director of the UCL Institute of Education Professor Susanne Kuechler, Professor of Material Culture, and Head of Department, Anthropology Professor Peter John, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, and Vice-Dean (Research), Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences Professor Timothy Mathews, Emeritus Professor of French and Comparative Criticism Professor Nicola Miller, Professor of Latin American History Martin Moyle, Assistant Director (Support Services), UCL Library Services Professor John Mullan, Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities Dr Samantha Rayner, Director of the UCL Centre for Publishing Lara Speicher, Publishing Manager, UCL Press Nicholas Tyndale, Director of Research Strategy and Impact The UCL Press Board typically receives reports on, and monitors, the following activities of the Press: Budget The Board reviews the UCL Press annual budget as well as longer-term business plans for its expenditure and activities. This provides reassurance that the institution s investment in the Press is providing value for money, and that it is delivering the desired impact. Download and print sales statistics How many times UCL Press books are downloaded or sold around the world is the main gauge of its success, and statistics for open access downloads and print sales are carefully collected and reviewed on a monthly basis at the Executive Board, and at the termly UCL Press Board meetings. These statistics are benchmarked against other open access presses and traditional university presses for the Board s understanding of UCL Press s position in the market. In addition, the statistics help UCL Press to monitor the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. New policy development Policies for key governance principles such as peer review, book pricing, charging non-ucl authors and global distribution are reviewed by the Board on a regular basis to ensure the Press s policies remain timely, are fit for purpose, and are comparable to other similar publishing operations. Publishing programme development UCL Press commissions books two-three years ahead, and presents its pipelines of forthcoming titles to the Board. This allows the Board to oversee the development of the publishing programme and to contribute to future strategic directions. Marketing plans As well as generic marketing plans to promote UCL Press and its publications, each book benefits from a tailored marketing plan to promote individual titles to the relevant audience. The Board reviews these plans to ensure that UCL Press s titles benefit from the widest possible visibility and that they reach their target audience. Proposals for new areas of activity From time to time, UCL Press develops new areas of activity such as providing consultancy and publishing services to other universities. Such developments are presented as detailed proposals with business plans to the Board for their consideration and approval. Conferences at which UCL is presenting It is important for UCL Press to maintain a high profile in the scholarly communications and publishing sector and a key way of doing this is to present at relevant conferences about the work of the Press and the impact it is having around the world. Book reviews External validation of UCL Press books is an important measure of its success. Book reviews in national newspapers and specialist journals is one way of monitoring this, and all book reviews are gathered and presented to Board members for their information

23 Finances UCL Press Executive Group The Executive Group meets on a monthly basis to review new book proposals, to oversee the peer review process, to review the UCL Press budget, and to develop new policies for presentation to the UCL Press Board. Chair: Dr Paul Ayris, Pro-Vice Provost Director of UCL Library Services and CEO of UCL Press Professor Joe Cain, Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology, and Head of Department, Science and Technology Studies Operational 187,690 Book and journal production 70, Peer review, copy-editing, typesetting, printing Professor Timothy Mathews, Emeritus Professor of French and Comparative Criticism Marketing and distribution 45, Website, events, trade fairs, catalogue, mailings, printing, advertising, author promotion systems Martin Moyle, Assistant Director (Support Services), UCL Library Services Digital development and systems 56, Online enhanced platform, digital hosting, management system Dr Chris Penfold, Commissioning Editor, UCL Press Lara Speicher, Publishing Manager, UCL Press Finances UCL Press aims to add value to the reader experience by disseminating UCL s research and teaching/learning outputs to a global community. This supports UCL s strategy for global engagement by ensuring materials are available to all, irrespective of their ability to pay. Training and conferences Misc TOTAL 11, , , Conference attendance, travel, training Miscellaneous It recognises the costs involved and the fact that those costs are not readily recouped via print sales in an open access model. In its first full year of publishing, it has focussed on establishing its reputation as a scholarly publisher, and its primary focus will always be on quality and dissemination. Staff 216,883 This covers five FTE members of staff: > Publishing Manager > Commissioning Editor > Managing Editor > Marketing and Distribution Manager > Administrative Assistant Revenue 10,

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