UWP publications have been downloaded more than three million times since the press‘s first publication in September 2015!
This is a great achievement for a young, non-profit, OA university press, as Chair of the UWP Editorial Board Professor Pippa Catterall attests: “When the University of Westminster Press was founded in 2015 the aspiration was to share widely and freely ground-breaking analyses and research that critically engages with contemporary issues and challenges. We didn’t set ourselves targets, but achieving three million downloads in our first eight years would have been beyond our wildest dreams. What’s great is to also see the steady rise in the global reach of UWP and in the numbers accessing the work we have published.”
Our journals have been downloaded 1.9 million times, our books 1.35 million times and our content has been accessed on every inhabited continent across the globe – across more than 200 countries and territories.
The top five countries accessing UWP content are the USA, China, the UK, Ireland and Germany.
UWP is considered to be a New University Press, digital-first with open access as a key principle. It was established by a University steering group in 2014, hired its first part-time employee in February 2015 and published its journal issue in September 2015 and first book in October 2016. Eight years later it is going from strength to strength.
The most popular digital book is David Chandler and Christian Fuchs (eds) Digital Objects and Digital Subjects – with now over 150,000 downloads; the top-selling print title is Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave’s Can Music Make You Sick? ; and the Entertainment and Sports Law Journal is the most downloaded of UWP’s six journals.
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