About University of California Press

University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated next the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish speculative and scientific works by talent of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868, and has been officially headquartered at the University’s flagship campus in Berkeley, California, since its inception.

As the non-profit publishing arm of the University of California system, the UC Press is thoroughly subsidized by the University and the State of California. A third of its authors are capability members of the University. The Press publishes beyond 250 other books and on the order of four dozen multi-issue journals annually, in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and maintains approximately 4,000 LP titles in print. It is moreover the digital publisher of Collabra and Luminos gate access (OA) initiatives.

The University of California Press publishes in the taking into account subjects: African studies, American studies, ancient world (classics), anthropology, art, Asian studies, communication, criminology & criminal justice, economics, environmental studies, film & media studies, food & wine, gender & sexuality, global studies, health, history, language, Latin American studies, literary studies & poetry, Middle Eastern studies, music, philosophy, politics, psychology, religion, sciences, and sociology.

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 publicity offices in Great Britain, Asia, Australia, and Latin America. A Board consisting of senior officers of the University of California, headquartered in Berkeley, holds responsibility for the operations of the Press, and authorizes and approves everything manuscripts for publication. The Editorial Committee consists of distinguished gift members representing the University’s nine campuses.

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.