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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 hig...

Don van Ravenzwaaij is a psychologist and statistician at the University of Groningen, and an advocate for the proper use of statistical inference in science. He has recently taken the helm of UC Press’s open-access journal Collabra: Psychology as Editor-in-Chief. UC Press: Congratulat...

by Cesraéa Rumpf, author of Recovering Identity: Criminalized Women’s Fight for Dignity and Freedom When I began my research with formerly incarcerated women in Chicago, I expected to hear a lot of hard stories. Based on the existing research, my past direct service work in domestic vi...

By Kevin Sanson, co-editor of Voices of Labor: Creativity, Craft, and Conflict in Global Hollywood and Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor and the forthcoming Mobile Hollywood (Spring 2024) More than 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) are on strike. The w...

Earlier this year, the publication committee for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) appointed Simine Vazire, who was previously Collabra: Psychology’s Senior Editor for Social Psychology, as the new Editor-in-Chief for the journal. In this post, we discuss new...

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 ...

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 Studi...

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 C...

UC Press and UC Global Health Institute Announce Partnership to Launch Advances in Global Health Advances in Global Health Editor-in-Chief Dr. Craig R. Cohen University of California Press is delighted to announce a partnership with the UC Global Health Institute to develop a new tr...

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 C...