Founded in 2008 by Brian Hole, Ubiquity Press is an
academic publisher focusing on
open access, peer-reviewed scholarship. Ubiquity Press is a part o
Ubiquity which also provides full publishing infrastructure and services to university presses, and repositories for institutions.
Ubiquity operates as a for-profit entity,
but involves stakeholders in business planning through a variety of advisory structures, including a Ubiquity Partner Advisory Board and a North American Library Advisory Board.
In 2018, the shareholders of Ubiquity adopted a charter to formally govern the company's business practices and to ensure that in the event of a change of control, it would adhere to the following three central tenets: 1) that all Ubiquity-published articles and books will be open access, “universally and freely accessible vie the Internet, in an easily readable format, with a Creative Commons Attribution license,” 2) that all code licensed as part of the Partner Press Platform will be open source and free for reuse, and 3) that all products of Ubiquity will be unbundled, “available for sale individually…not…made exclusively available as part of larger product bundles.”
Ubiquity Press is also a member of the
Committee on Publication Ethics
The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to define best practice in the ethics of scholarly publishing and to assist editors and publishers to achieve this.
Mission
COPE educates and su ...
, the
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is an international trade association of non-profit publishers created in 1972. It is the largest association of scholarly and professional publishers in the world, with nearl ...
, and the
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.
De Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.
History
The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...
acquired Ubiquity Press in October 2022.
See also
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Journals published by Ubiquity Press
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Open Library of Humanities
The Open Library of Humanities is a nonprofit, diamond open access publisher in the humanities and social sciences founded by Martin Paul Eve and Caroline Edwards. Founded in 2015, OLH publishes 27 scholarly journals as of 2022, including a meg ...
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University of Westminster Press
University of Westminster Press is the open access academic press of the University of Westminster, England. It publishes academic books and peer-reviewed journals and runs on the Ubiquity Press
Founded in 2008 by Brian Hole, Ubiquity Press is a ...
References
External links
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Academic publishing companies
Companies based in the London Borough of Camden
Open access publishers
2012 establishments in the United Kingdom
Publishing companies established in 2012