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Liverpool University Press
Parent companyUniversity of Liverpool
Founded1899
FounderJohn Sampson (linguist)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationLiverpool
DistributionWiley (UK and most of world)
Longleaf (Americas)
Ta Tong Book Company (Taiwan)
Overleaf (India)[1]
Publication typesBooks, academic journals
ImprintsLiverpool University Press, Modern Languages Open, Pavilion Poetry
No. of employees33
Official websitewww.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

Liverpool University Press (LUP), founded in 1899, is the third oldest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. As the press of the University of Liverpool, it specialises in modern languages, literatures, history, and visual culture and currently publishes more than 160 books a year, as well as 50 academic journals.[2] LUP's books are distributed in North America by Longleaf.[3]

History

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One of the earliest heads of LUP was Lascelles Abercrombie, the first poetry lecturer at the university.[citation needed]. Across its history a number of distinguished scholars have published with the Press, including the Nobel Prize winner Ronald Ross and the literary critic Hermione Lee.

In 2004, the Press was restructured, changing from a department of the University of Liverpool to a subsidiary.

Alongside its academic publishing, LUP is known for the Pavilion Poetry imprint. Inaugural poet Mona Arshi's collection, Small Hands, won The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection at the 2015 Forward Prizes for Poetry.[4]. How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil won the 2020 T.S. Eliot Prize.

In 2024, the Chief Executive of Liverpool University Press, Anthony Cond, became the first President of the Association of University Presses from outside of the Americas.

Collaborations and activities

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Although well known for publishing under its own imprint, Liverpool University Press also provides publishing for a number of other organisations including The British Academy, Historic England and the Voltaire Foundation.

The Press has been a strong supporter of Open Access and was the first publisher to sign up to Knowledge Unlatched, a global library consortium approach to funding open access books.[when?][5]

In 2014, LUP launched Modern Languages Open, its peer-reviewed open access online platform publishing research from across the modern languages.[6]

Awards

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Liverpool University Press has won Academic Publisher of the Year awards from both the Independent Publishers Guild [7] and The Bookseller.[7]

Journals

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Journals published by LUP include:

References

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  1. ^ For Booksellers
  2. ^ https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pages/about. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ "Information for Booksellers". Liverpool University Press.
  4. ^ "Upcoming Events". Homepage. Forward Arts Foundation. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  5. ^ "Good for publishers". Knowledge Unlatched.
  6. ^ "Modern Languages Open". Liverpool University Press.
  7. ^ a b "Awards and Nominations". Liverpool University Press.
  8. ^ "Town Planning Review". JSTOR. ISSN 0041-0020. Retrieved 23 March 2022.

Further reading

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  • Droop, J. P. The University Press of Liverpool: A Record of Progress, 1899–1946, with a Catalogue of All Publications. Liverpool University Press, 1947
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