Universitetsforlaget AS (English: "The University Press"), also known in English as Scandinavian University Press, is a

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academic

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, which publishes non-fiction literature and journals mainly oriented to

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. Universitetsforlaget is the largest

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, and is a wholly owned independently operated subsidiary of

Aschehoug H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), commonly known as Aschehoug,() is one of the largest independent publishing companies in Norway, founded in 1872. Headquartered in Oslo, the publishing house has 480 employees. The Aschehoug group also comprises ot ...

, founded in 1872. Universitetsforlaget was originally the name of an independent publishing company founded by

Tønnes Andenæs Tønnes Madsson Andenæs (25 June 1923 – 22 February 1975) was a Norwegian jurist, book publisher and politician for the Labour Party. Biography He was born at Innvik in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. he was a son of vicar Mads Olsen Andenæs (18 ...

in 1950, which later merged with other publishing companies to become a subsidiary of Aschehoug in 2000.

History

The publishing house in its current form was established in 2000, and has two different origins: One is Universitetsforlaget, founded by

in 1950; the company purchased Swedish academic journal publisher Almqvist & Wiksell International in 1991. The second origin is the publishing house , which is itself the result of the merger of two publishing companies founded in 1890 and 1933, respectively. In 1982 Aschehoug acquired Tanum-Norli, which was renamed Tano. In 2000, Tano and Universitetsforlaget merged under the name Universitetsforlaget. The international journals were sold to

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in the 2000s. Today, the publisher is a wholly owned subsidiary of Aschehoug and publishes books and academic journals in the Scandinavian languages. Universitetsforlaget has around 50 employees. The publishing house publishes around 80 academic journals and 140 books every year.

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s of Universitetsforlaget: *2000–2002: Laila Stange *2002–2005: Arne Magnus *2005–2014 : Svein Skarheim *2014– : Hege Gundersen

Awards

Article of the Year – The Scandinavian University Press Academic Journal Prize

The ''Article of the Year – The Scandinavian University Press Academic Journal Prize'' ( no, Årets tidsskriftartikkel – Universitetsforlagets tidsskriftpris) is a Nordic academic prize awarded by Universitetsforlaget to "recognise the best scholarship that is published in the Nordic countries." A Nordic jury selects the recipient(s) on the basis of nominations from 42 academic journals. Each journal nominates the best article that was published in the journal in the past year. The recipients are: *2004:

Trude Haugli Trude Haugli (born 1958) is a Norwegian jurist, Professor of Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tromsø. She is known as a principal founder of the research field of children's law in Norway, and has served as chair of ...

*2005:

Tord Larsen Tord Larsen (born 26 January 1945) is a Norwegian social anthropologist. He is professor emeritus of social anthropology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Career and work Larsen earned a B.A. at Dartmouth College in t ...

*2006: Erling E. Guldbrandsen *2007: *2008: Jens Chr. Andvig *2009: Tor A. Benjaminsen *2010:

Audun Dybdahl Audun Dybdahl (born 10 September 1944, died 22 June 2021) was a Norwegian historian of the Middle Ages. He was professor of history at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Career and work Audun Dybdahl studied at the unive ...

*2011:

Marianne Nordli Hansen Marianne Nordli Hansen (born 1957) is a Norwegian sociologist. She is a professor of sociology at the University of Oslo. Career and work She earned the Mag.Art. degree in sociology at the University of Oslo in 1984 and was a researcher at the N ...

*2012:

Jon Haarberg Jon Marius Sæland Haarberg (born 1953) is a Norwegian literary scholar, and professor of literature at the University of Oslo. Career and work Haarberg was an editor and later editor-in-chief of the publisher Universitetsforlaget from 1984 to 19 ...

*2013: *2014:

Siemke Böhnisch Siemke Böhnisch (born 1964) is a German theatre and media scholar. She is a professor of theatre studies at the University of Agder in Norway. Career She earned a PhD in dramaturgy at Aarhus University in 2010 with the dissertation ''Feedbacksl ...

*2015:

Terje Tvedt Terje Tvedt (born 24 August 1951) is a Norwegian academic, author and documentary film maker. Tvedt is presently a professor at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen, and Professor in Global History, University of Oslo, Norway. He ha ...

*2016: , and Elin Borg *2017: *2018: *2019:

Nora Simonhjell Nora Simonhjell (born 26 July 1970) is a Norwegian literary scholar, author and poet. She is a full professor of Norwegian literature at the University of Agder. Career She earned her cand.philol. degree in literature at the University of Bergen ...

and *2020:

Hendrik Storstein Spilker Hendrik Storstein Spilker (born 1965) is a Norwegian sociologist and media studies scholar. He is a professor of media and technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Career He earned his cand.polit. degree at NTNU ...

and Magnus Kongshaug Johannessen *2021:

Margunn Bjørnholt Margunn Bjørnholt (born 9 October 1958 in Bø, Telemark) is a Norwegian sociologist and economist. She is a research professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) and a professor of sociology at the Univers ...

References

External links

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Article at snl.no

Article at caplex.no
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History

Awards

Article of the Year – The Scandinavian University Press Academic Journal Prize

See also

Further reading

References

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