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In December 2013, UC Press’s mission-driven, trans-disciplinary, open-access journal Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene published its first article, ushering in its motto, “Open Science for Public Good.” In this blog post we pause to reflect and take note of some of the publication highlights fro

"I’ve really liked the editorial culture at Collabra: Psychology. Things like owning your decisions as editor... humility in your decision letters... and editing the paper the authors have written instead of the paper you would have liked them to have written."

Cesraéa Rumpf, author of RECOVERING IDENTITY, writes about criminalized women "rehabilitating" their identities.

Shortly after the WGA announcement, labor guilds in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom issued guidance to their own members, advising writers not to cross WGA picket lines.

" ...we want to reduce the degree to which editors’ and reviewers’ idiosyncratic tastes come into play, and we want to give equal recognition to incremental research, or work that helps correct the record, as we do to research that breaks new ground"

The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation announced the long and shortlisted titles in the running for its 2020 Photography Book Award and Moving Image Book Award, and we are exceptionally pleased to see Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons by Hannah Frank on the 2020 Moving Image Book

Giorgio Bertellini, author of The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America, has been awarded 2019 American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize for Film & Other Media Studies. The AAIS prize recognizes the best books in Italian Studies. Bertellini'

Since first launching in 2015, Luminos has served as one of UC Press’s flagship open access programs. Having published more than seventy-five full length scholarly monographs—fully open and available to the public for free— in a variety of disciplines, Luminos embodies the University of California m

Advances in Global Health is an open-access, online-only journal from University of California Press and the UC Global Health Institute, which seeks to take a new approach to publishing research in the field of global health by aligning the journal with several of the United Nations Sustainable Deve

Since first launching in 2015, Luminos has served as one of UC Press’s flagship open access programs. Having published more than seventy-five full length scholarly monographs—fully open and available to the public for free— in a variety of disciplines, Luminos embodies the University of California m