Manchester University Press is the

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of the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

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and a publisher of academic books and journals. Manchester University Press has developed into an international publisher. It maintains its links with the University.

Publishing

Manchester University Press publishes monographs and textbooks for academic teaching in higher education. In 2012 it was producing about 145 new books annually and managed a number of journals. Areas of expertise are history, politics and international law, literature and theatre studies, and visual culture. MUP books are marketed and distributed by

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in the United States and Canada, and in Australia by Footprint Books; all other global territories are covered from Manchester itself. Some of the press's books were formerly published in the US by Barnes & Noble, Inc., New York. Later the press established an American office in Dover, New Hampshire.

Open access

Manchester University Press has been actively involved in

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. It is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the

Knowledge Unlatched Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is an Open Access service provider registered as a for-profit GmbH in Berlin, Germany, and owned by multinational commercial publishing company Wiley as of December 2021. It offers a crowdfunding model to support a variet ...

pilot, a global library consortium approach to funding

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History

MUP was founded in 1904 (as the Publications Committee of the University), initially to publish academic research being undertaken at the

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. The office was accommodated in a house in Lime Grove. Distribution was then in the hands of

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of Manchester; from 1913 the distributors were Longmans, Green & Co. though this arrangement came to an end in the 1930s. (Only 17 publications had been issued under its imprint in the first year.) MUP was founded by James Tait. His successor was

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and between them they were in charge for the first 20 years of the Presss existence. H. M. McKechnie was secretary to the press from 1912 to 1949. The MUP offices moved several times to make way for other developments within the university. Since 1951 these have been Grove House, Oxford Road,Charlton, H. B. (1951) ''

Portrait of a University ''Portrait of a University 1851–1951; to commemorate the centenary of Manchester University'' is a book written by H. B. Charlton to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the founding of Owens College, and published by Manchester University Pre ...

''. Manchester: U. P.; pp. 94–95, 169. then the former

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(''illustrated'') and until the present time the

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in Coupland Street.

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