It may be National Split Pea Soup Week, but it is time to put the green mash aside and get on the good foot. What foot? University Press Week, 2015, the […]
5 things you should read before NWSA
If you’re headed out to Milwaukee to soak up knowledge at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, you’ll want to be prepared. That’s why we’ve come up with an essential […]
Press Week blog tour: The Future of Scholarly Publishing
University Press Week has been around since 1978. This week we’re joining other AAUP members to scholarly publishing concurrent with the first annual Academic Book Week (Nov. 9-16, 2015), a program […]
Win a copy of Fe-Lines: French Cat Poems through the Ages
One of the wonderful things about independent bookstores is the opportunity for discovery. Is there a better feeling than walking among rows of texts and spying that one spine that calls […]
It’s University Press Week!
This year the Association of American University Presses gather online and on campuses around the world for University Press Week from November 8-14, 2015. The AAUP is celebrating scholarly publishing […]
Common Threads: Higher Mental Processes is now available
This fall University of Illinois Press Journals is publishing the first in a series of e-books that bring together related journal content into a single volume. The Common Threads series […]
Opening Access: AAUP Press Week online event
University Press Week is celebrated worldwide from November 8-14. The week is designed to draw attention to the great scholarly publishing work that challenges boundaries and stimulates thought. During Press […]
Throwbacklist Thursday
It is National Peanut Butter Month. Who knows why. Probably Skippy and Jif paid for the next twenty years of November. Anyway, we’ll play along. Let’s salute the pioneers who […]
“Everybody likes stories”
Daisy Turner, the shotgun-wielding centenarian, was someone Jane Beck was anxious to meet. Beck, the Executive Director Emeritus and Founder of the Vermont Folklife Center, recounted her first encounter with Daisy […]
Q&A with Fighting for Total Person Unionism author Bob Bussel
Robert Bussel is a professor of history and director of the Labor Education and Research Center at the University of Oregon. He answered some questions about his book Fighting for Total […]
AAUP Press week kicks off with UIUC publishing session
As an early kickoff to University Press Week (November 8th – 14th), two UIP staff members are participating in an informative conversation about publishing with an academic press. Daniel Nasset, […]
$2.99 e-book sale to celebrate the National Women’s Studies Association conference
For the month of November 2015, to coincide with the National Women’s Studies Association annual meeting November 12-15 in Milwaukee, we have lowered the e-book list price of four titles […]