This is the number one question I am asked whenever I give talks. Like many questions I will answer here, the answer depends a lot on the author, the project, […]
ACQUIRING WITH ALISON — Volume 2: How do I contact an editor?
Category: publishing
ACQUIRING WITH ALISON — Volume I: What is an acquisitions editor?
Acquisitions (or acquiring) editors live in a liminal space. We are employed by a press, but we spend a lot of time in academia proper, attending conferences, talking to scholars, […]
University Press Week: Where does your press StepUP?
Every day, university presses worldwide step up to educate and enlighten, motivate and inspire, support and act. During University Press Week 2024, we explore the myriad ways our community’s publications […]
Free People Read Freely™ Symposium Wrap Up
The Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) and the University of Illinois Press were proud to present the symposium “Free People Read Freely” [a phrase used with […]
Reflections from Our Interns
Today on National Intern Day, we share some reflections from University of Illinois Press interns! “A life-long reader, I am so excited to have the opportunity to market something I […]
Common Threads: Doing Things Differently So We Can Do Different Things
This post originally appeared on The Scholarly Kitchen on July 10th, 2019. I was asked by Lisa Hinchliffe to submit a guest post to The Scholarly Kitchen about the Common Threads […]
Videos of the University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium Now Available
On February 15, we hosted our first University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium. It was fantastic day of sessions about publishing and engaged conversation. We thank everyone who came to […]
First Annual University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium Feb. 15
Join us for the first annual University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium on February 15 for a day of interactive workshops, round tables, and conversations about publishing. […]
UIUC Scholarship and the University of Illinois Press
In celebration of our 100th anniversary, the University of Illinois Press, in collaboration the University of Illinois Archives Sesquicentennial Speakers Series, presented a panel titled, “UIUC Scholarship and the University […]
UIP at 100: How Design and Marketing has Evolved Over a Century of Publishing
From its establishment in 1918 until well into the 1940s, the University of Illinois Press printed very few bound books each year. And by very few, we mean around seven. […]
Meet the UI Press: The secret garden of praise
Meet the UI Press is a semi-regular feature that delves into issues affecting academic publishing, writing, education, and related topics. Blurb. It sounds like an onomatopoeia for a noise made by infant humans. […]
Initial impressions
A vestigial organ of our personal identities, the middle initial causes particular problems in publishing. Every author must ask: do I use it? Or do I go casual, i.e., publish a book […]