Find ]u[ Ubiquity, WRUP, HUP, and LARC at the London Book Fair 2024

From 12th-14th March, we will be returning to the London Book Fair for the second year in a row.

The London Book Fair is one of the largest publishing fairs globally, attracting around 30,000 attendees each year. Having a presence at LBF 2024 alongside so many major players in the publishing industry is a great opportunity for us to promote the ]u[ Ubiquity Partner Network (UPN), and to generate some conversation around open access, university press publishing, and the open movement in general.

We are especially thrilled to be sharing our stand this year with three members of the ]u[ Ubiquity Partner Network — White Rose University Press (WRUP), Helsinki University Press (HUP), and Latin America Research Commons (LARC). All three presses are pioneering open access publishing, and producing first-rate publications that explore cutting-edge scholarship across a wide range of disciplines. As fully open access presses, all of their content is freely available online — however, each press also offers high-quality print copies of their books, a selection of which will be available to explore on our stand. You can find out more about each press below:

White Rose University Press (WRUP) is a non-profit, open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals and books, publishing across a wide range of academic disciplines. The press was founded in 2016, and is run jointly by three of the UK’s leading universities; the University of Leeds, the University of Sheffield, and the University of York.

All three universities have a strong research presence both within the UK and globally and came together to establish WRUP, due to their shared values and commitment to making research open access.

WRUP strives to provide ‘service-led’ publishing that serves the academic community by providing high-quality publishing services as well as expertise and support for scholars publishing in open access for the first time or looking to experiment with different forms of publishing. Over the last few years, WRUP has focused in particular on its book and monograph publications, producing many impactful and incredibly high-quality books across a wide range of disciplines.

Helsinki University Press (HUP) is a fully open access university press, which launched in 2020. It was established with the aim to further the transition to open research, and publish research literature with as global a reach as possible. The press is particularly conscious of being accessible to researchers and readers in the Majority World, where paywalls are a major challenge, as well as to audiences outside of academia.

HUP aspires not only to provide accessible publications with as wide a reach as possible, but to produce publications of the highest quality. The press publishes high-quality books and journals across a wide range of academic fields and disciplines, with a particular focus on the humanities and social sciences.

Latin America Research Commons (LARC) is the first open access publishing press dedicated to the publication of monographs in Spanish and Portuguese.

It is a project that originated in the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and its main goal is to ensure the widest possible dissemination of original monographs and journals in all disciplines related to Latin American studies. It is oriented to ensure that scholars from around the world can find and access the research they need without economic or geographic barriers.

We will also be representing the University Press Library Open (UPLO), a new open access initiative from Paradigm Publishing Services, which will host content from fifty-plus traditional print University Press Library partners, making them fully available as open access. The platform will have a central focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and is funded by De Gruyter’s not-for-profit foundation, eBound.

You will be able to find us on Stand 7A34, from 12th-14th March at Olympia London. Make sure you stop by to look at just a small selection of some of the innovative titles published by WRUP, HUP, and LARC, plus our own publishing imprint ]u[ Ubiquity Press. We will also be on hand to talk about the UPLO, our Partner Press service, or any other aspect of open publishing. We look forward to seeing you there!

Would you like to set up a meeting in advance of the London Book Fair? Get in touch.