The University of Illinois Press publishes books, journals, and electronic projects for students, scholars, and citizens. Its publications help to further the University's mission of advancing knowledge, research and education, cultural and intellectual life, and regional pride and accomplishments.
Founded in 1918, the University of Illinois Press is one of the nation's largest university presses. It is committed to multivolume publishing and dynamic digital resources, partnering with libraries, foundations, and scholarly associations on works of broad scope and enduring importance.
History
The University of Illinois Press is one of the oldest and largest university presses in the United States. Its publishing programs support the University's mission of educating, research, and service.
Founded in 1918, the Press now publishes some 120 new books and 33 scholarly journals each year. The Press also maintains an extensive collection of electronic resources for research and teaching.
Since its founding, the Press has remained dedicated to promoting knowledge through a broad range of book and journal publication in the humanities and social sciences. Its lists and series represent the full range of disciplinary interests at the University, from African studies to Slavic studies to cultural history to women's studies.
Its commitment to the study of African American history has led to the development of strong series in African history, labor and working-class history, and women's history. Other important series in social history include Blacks in the New World, which has sold more than three million copies; Immigration History, a series of books published under the imprint University Studies; and Sports History, which is a leader in the field with several highly regarded series.
The Press also publishes works in communications and media studies, film studies, and Black studies. Its enduring list of backlist classics, including The Mathematical Theory of Communication and Four Theories of the Press, reflects its longstanding commitment to these fields.
In addition to its scholarly publishing, the Press is an active partner in a wide array of public education activities. It is an essential resource for educators, administrators, and parents in the state of Illinois and has a strong presence among teachers, students, and professionals throughout the nation.
As a major publisher, the Press offers an exciting program of new and reprints of the works of outstanding authors. It also publishes a large number of reprints of classic titles, many of which are available in digital formats.
The Press publishes a variety of genres, including novels, poems, essays, and short fiction. Its acclaimed Illinois Short Fiction series, which typically offered four volumes of new writing each year from 1975 until the 1990s, remains an especially strong force in American literary publishing. In addition, the Press maintains an active and prestigious poetry series.
Books
The University of Illinois Press is home to an impressive list of publications in multiple subject areas. Among the many titles are our scholarly monograph series, numerous non-academic titles and an extensive list of trade and academic books. We also boast a number of specialized interdisciplinary research centers including the Center for the Study of Human Evolution (CSHE), which publishes a high-profile journal in the human and veterinary nihilism arena. Besides its library and classroom offerings, the university has an enviable array of research facilities that draw from the greater Champaign-Urbana metro area.
Journals
The University of Illinois Press publishes books and journals for a wide variety of audiences, including scholars, students, general readers and librarians. The Press promotes research and education, cultural and intellectual life and regional pride and accomplishments through its publications. It also provides scholarly publishing knowledge and standards to the academic community as well as to the general public.
The Press's scholarly journals cover a broad range of topics, and include those that focus on specific disciplines such as clinical ethics and philosophy of health care. It also produces multidisciplinary journals that feature work in areas such as religion, history, and social sciences. The Press is an active participant in the global scholarly publishing community and is always on the lookout for new ways to engage readers and authors.
Journals published by University of Illinois Press are available through the library catalog and OAPEN, the scholarly open access repository hosted by the University Library. The Press publishes a number of non-library-produced journals, including those from CLACSO, an international and renowned research group in Buenos Aires, Argentina that publishes academic literature from Latin America.
The Press is a leader in the shift toward open access, with its support for knowledge unlatched (an initiative to help university presses shift to open access book publication). The Press and the University Library also support arXiv and OAPEN through a Big Ten Academic Alliance agreement. In addition, the University Library is a founding member of Open Libraries for Humanities (OLH), an open access publisher that hosts its own multidisciplinary journal and publishes peer-reviewed journals in a number of humanities disciplines with no author-facing article processing charges. The University of Illinois Press is also a member of the Scholarly Publishing Collective, a consortium that provides institutional subscription rates for many scholarly journals.