University Press Week 2026, November 9-13, celebrates the collective vigor of our global scholarly publishing community. Mission-driven, creative, and collaborative practices enable university presses worldwide to PowerUP every day, using our energy to fuel publications, projects, and initiatives that amplify our authors’ voices to inform our current moment and shape our future.
Make sure to check out blog posts from other university presses in the Association of University Presses’ (AUP) UP Week blog tour and browse the PowerUP gallery and reading list here.
All UP work is collaborative work, with multiple internal and external partners impacting everything we do. We’d like to highlight some of the partnerships behind our work that have allowed University of Illinois Press to PowerUP this year.
In November 2022, the University of Illinois Press (UIP) and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (CMHOF) partnered up to co-publish and distribute books on country music and related music styles. Learn more here.
Over the past four years, CMHOF and UIP have collaborated on new works, as well distributed titles released under the museum’s longstanding publishing arm, CMF Press, including reissuing significant out-of-print historical works.
Explore our whole list of CMHOF titles here.
We publish many of our journals in partnership with scholarly associations and societies globally. We’re also excited to highlight a few societies whose journals have just recently joined or are soon joining our program (more on those soon!):
- American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages: Slavic & East European Journal
- International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentations Centres: Fontes Artis Musicae
- Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society: Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society
- Music Library Association: Notes
Our society–journal partnerships also include:
- Abraham Lincoln Association: Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association
- American Association of Teachers of Italian: Italica
- American Folklore Society: Journal of American Folklore
- Appalachian Studies Association: Journal of Appalachian Studies
- Association for the Study of Connecticut History: Connecticut History Review
- Center for Process Studies: Process Studies
- Center for Sociocultural Sport and Olympic Research: Journal of Olympic Studies
- Dialogue Foundation: Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
- Education Law Association: Journal of Education Finance and Law
- Illinois State Historical Society: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
- Immigration and Ethnic History Society: Journal of American Ethnic History
- Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought: American Journal of Theology and Philosophy
- Italian American Studies Association: Diasporic Italy
- Mormon History Association: Journal of Mormon History
- Midwest Archaeological Confrence: Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology
- North American Society for Sport History: Journal of Sport History
- Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics: Journal of Animal Ethics
- Polish American Historical Association: Polish American Studies
- The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America: The Polish Review
- Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy: The Pluralist
- Society for Ethnomusicology: Ethnomusicology
- University Film & Video Association: Journal of Film & Video
- Utah State Historical Society: Utah Historical Quarterly