University of California Press

University of California Press

Parent company	University of California
Founded	1893
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Berkeley, California
Distribution	Ingram Publisher Services (US) John Wiley & Sons (UK) Footprint Books (Australia)[1]
Publication types	Books, journals
Official website	ucpress.edu

2008 conference booth

The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893^[2] to publish scholarly and scientific works by faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868.

As the publishing arm of the University of California system, the press publishes over 250 new books and almost four dozen multi-issue journals annually, in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and maintains approximately 4,000 book titles in print.^[3] It is also the digital publisher of Collabra and Luminos open access (OA) initiatives.

The press has its administrative office in downtown Oakland, California, an editorial branch office in Los Angeles, and a sales office in New York, and distributes through marketing offices in Great Britain, Asia, Australia, and Latin America. A Board consisting of senior officers of the University of California, holds responsibility for the operations of the press, and authorizes and approves all manuscripts for publication. The Editorial Committee consists of distinguished faculty members representing the university's nine campuses.^[4]

The press commissioned as its corporate typeface University of California Old Style from type designer Frederic Goudy from 1936 to 1938, although it no longer always uses the design.^[5][6][7][8]

University of California Press joined The Association of American Publishers trade organization in the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit which resulted in the removal of access to over 500,000 books from global readers.^[9][10]

Notable books

• Language as Symbolic Action, Kenneth Burke (1966)
• The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, Carlos Castaneda (1968)
• Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania, Jerome Rothenberg (1968; 50th anniversary edition 2017)
• The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain (definitive edition) (1969, based on work first published in 1916)
• Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (1969)
• The Making of a Counter Culture, Theodore Roszak (1970)
• Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature, Stanley Fish (1972)
• The Ancient Economy, Moses I. Finley (1973)
• Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism, Marina Warner (1981)
• Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, Nel Noddings (1984, 2nd edition 2003)
• Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age, Benjamin R. Barber (1984)
• Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, Thomas Albright (1985)
• Religious Experience, Wayne Proudfoot (1985)
• The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam, Tom Wells (1994)
• George Grosz: An Autobiography, George Grosz (translated by Nora Hodges) (published 1998, written in 1946, translated in 1955)
• Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, Kevin Bales (1999)
• Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, Karen McCarthy Brown (2001)
• A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America, Michael Barkun (2003)
• Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, Norman G. Finkelstein (2005)
• Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume One, Mark Twain (2010)
• Revival from Below, Brannon D. Ingram (2018)
• Perfecting Women, Barbara D. Metcalf (1992)

Open access (OA) programs at UC Press

Collabra

Collabra is University of California Press's open access journal program. The Collabra program currently publishes two open access journals, Collabra: Psychology and Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, with plans for continued expansion and journal acquisition.^[11]

Luminos

Luminos is University of California Press's open access response to the challenged monograph landscape. With the same high standards for selection, peer review, production, and marketing as its traditional book publishing program, Luminos is a transformative model, built as a partnership where costs and benefits are shared.^[12]

Notable series

The University of California Press re-printed a number of novels under the California Fiction series from 1996 to 2001. These titles were selected for their literary merit and for their illumination of California history and culture.^[13][14]

• The Ford by Mary Austin
• Thieves' Market by A.I. Bezzerides
• Disobedience by Michael Drinkard
• Words of My Roaring by Ernest J. Finney
• Skin Deep by Guy Garcia
• Fat City by Leonard Gardiner
• Chez Chance by Jay Gummerman
• Continental Drift by James D. Houston
• The Vineyard by Idwal Jones
• In the Heart of the Valley of Love by Cynthia Kadohata
• Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Valley of the Moon by Jack London
• Home and Away by Joanne Meschery
• Bright Web in the Darkness by Alexander Saxton
• Golden Days by Carolyn See
• Oil! by Upton Sinclair
• Understand This by Jervey Tervalon
• Ghost Woman by Lawrence Thornton
• Who Is Angelina? by Al Young

See also

• List of English-language book publishing companies
• List of university presses

References

1. "Booksellers – University of California Press". Retrieved 2018-02-06.
2. Camhi, Jeff (15 April 2013). A Dam in the River: Releasing the Flow of University Ideas. Algora Publishing. pp. 149–. ISBN 978-0-87586-989-6. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
3. "University of California Press". University of California Press.
4. "University of California Press | UCOP". www.ucop.edu.
5. Goudy, Frederic (1946). A Half-Century of Type Design and Typography: 1895-1945, Volume 1. New York: The Typophiles. pp. 216–219. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
6. Carter, Matthew. "Goudy, the good ol' boy (Bruckner biography review)". Eye Magazine. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
7. Shaw, Paul. "An appreciation of Frederic W. Goudy as a type designer". Retrieved 12 July 2015.
8. Updike, John (16 December 1990). "A Bull in the Typography Shop: a review of Frederic Goudy by D.J.R. Bruckner". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
9. https://help.archive.org/help/why-are-so-many-books-listed-as-borrow-unavailable-at-the-internet-archive/
10. https://publishers.org/who-we-are/our-members/
11. "Collabra: Psychology". www.collabra.org.
12. "University of California Press". www.luminosoa.org.
13. See, Carolyn (1996). Golden Days. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520206738.
14. "California Fiction". University of California Press. Retrieved 14 October 2015.

Further reading

• Hitchcock, Joanna (1995). "Review of The University of California Press: The Early Years, 1893-1953". Libraries & Culture. 30 (1): 124–126. ISSN 0894-8631. JSTOR 25542734.
• Muto, Albert (1993). "A Voice from the Wilderness: The Early University of California Press". California History. 72 (3): 222–233. doi:10.2307/25177358. ISSN 0162-2897. JSTOR 25177358.
• Pascal, Naomi B. (1994). "Review of The University of California Press: The Early Years, 1893-1953". The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy. 64 (4): 486–487. doi:10.1086/602743. ISSN 0024-2519. JSTOR 4308988.
• Withey, Lynne; Orsi, Richard (1993). "Milestones of California History: The University of California Press: A Century of Publishing". California History. 72 (3). doi:10.2307/25177357. ISSN 0162-2897. JSTOR 25177357.

External links

• Official website
• Frugé, August. A Skeptic Among Scholars: August Frugé on University Publishing. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1993 1993.
• California Digital Library (CDL) – University of California Libraries
• Free Online - UC Press E-Books Collection
• Mark Twain Project Online
• "Mark Twain's Biography Flying Off the Shelves", The New York Times, Nov. 19, 2010