University Presses outside of North America
(this list is a modified and updated version of university presses compiled on Peter King’s
website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/uni-presses.html )
Australia and New Zealand
Auckland University Press
http://web.auckland.ac.nz/aup/
Stated areas of expertise: New Zealand history and biography, Maori
and Pacific studies and literary studies, new poetry, contemporary
social and political issues, art history and media studies
Canterbury University Press
http://www.cup.canterbury.ac.nz/
Stated areas of expertise: natural history, marine biology, and New
Zealand and Pacific history.
Central Queensland University Press
http://www.outbackbooks.com/
Stated areas of expertise: non-fiction books – with a particular focus on
Australia's northern history, heritage, and heroes – as well as a limited
amount of fiction
Melbourne University Publishing
http://www.mup.com.au/
Stated areas of expertise: publishes approximately 80 books and
electronic products each year over a wide range of subject areas and
disciplines; monographs published as e-books and print-on-demand
University of New South Wales Press
http://www.unswpress.com.au/
Stated areas of expertise: Australian studies and natural history, but its
list also includes a wide range of titles in other scholarly and general
subject areas
University of Otago Press
http://www.otago.ac.nz/administration/oupress.html
Stated areas of expertise: publishes about 20 books a year on New
Zealand, the Pacific and Asia: ranging from special interest academic
works, including textbooks, to general books
University of Queensland Press
http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/
Stated areas of expertise: Non-fiction, academic manuscripts in the
Humanities and Social Sciences (also publish fiction and poetry but
only work through agents in these genres)
Southern Cross University Press
http://scupress.scu.edu.au/
Stated areas of expertise: work in action learning and action research,
cultural studies and environmental heritage
Sydney University Press
http://www.sup.usyd.edu.au/
Stated areas of expertise: restarted in 2003 as a digital and print "on
demand" publisher; new work based on teaching and research from the
University of Sydney and other Australian academic institutions
Victoria University Press
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/vup/
Stated areas of expertise: NZ history, biography and essays
University of Western Australia Press
http://www.uwap.uwa.edu.au/
Stated areas of expertise: fiction and non-fiction
University of Wollongong Press
http://www.uow.edu.au/research/uowpress/
Stated areas of expertise: Relaunched in 2003; linked to Halstead
Press, a small, long-established Sydney publisher; “seeks to
disseminate exciting scholarship, showcasing its own research
strengths and work from elsewhere relating to these areas of interest”
Asia
Chinese University Press
http://www.chineseupress.com/english/e_front_page.htm
Stated areas of expertise: Chinese culture, China and Hong Kong
studies
Hong Kong University Press
http://www.hkupress.org/
Stated areas of expertise: bilingual publisher of works both in English
and Chinese; cultural studies, film and media studies, Chinese history
and culture; Hong Kong history, law, politics, economy, society and
literature.
Ateneo de Manila University Press
http://www.ateneopress.org/
Stated areas of expertise: scholarly books on the Philippines in the
humanities and the social sciences; Philippine literary works; Philippine
Studies
National University of Singapore Publishing
http://www.nus.edu.sg/nuspress/
Stated areas of expertise: East Asian classics and cultures series
(publishes in Chinese)
National Taiwan University Press
http://www.press.ntu.edu.tw/ntu_nube/english/index.asp
Stated areas of expertise: business reference books for local and
regional markets, Singapore- and Asia-focused works for the trade and
professional markets.
Mainland Europe (just a few)
University of Amsterdam Press
http://www.aup.nl/
Stated areas of expertise: humanities (language and literature, history,
film studies, art) and social sciences. Books published in Dutch and
English.
Università di Firenze - Firenze University Press
http://www.fupress.com/index.asp
Stated areas of expertise: couldn’t tell you because website is in Italian.
St Kliment Ohridski University Press (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
http://portal.unisofia.bg/index.php/eng/the_university/additional_structures/independen
t_structures/university_press/about_the_press
Stated areas of expertise: Mostly publishes books by Sofia University
staff, but might be a good place to go if you want to publish something
on Bulgaria or distribute to a Bulgarian market.
University Press of Southern Denmark
http://www.universitypress.dk/eng/
Stated areas of expertise: “books from the world of science in the
broadest sense of the word”
U.K. & Ireland
Cambridge University Press
http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/
Stated areas of expertise: (see AAUP grid)
Cork University Press
http://www.corkuniversitypress.com/
Stated areas of expertise: music, art history, literary criticism and
poetry, Irish cultural history, archaeology and landscape studies
University College Dublin Press
http://www.ucdpress.ie/
Stated areas of expertise: Irish political, social and literary history
University of Hertfordshire Press
http://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/our-structure/subsidiarycompanies/uh-press/
Stated areas of expertise: Literature and Theatre Studies, History,
Psychology, Education and Biosciences, Romani Studies
Edinburgh University Press
http://www.euppublishing.com/
Stated areas of expertise: African Studies, American Studies, Film &
Media Studies, Historical Studies, Islamic Studies, Language &
Linguistics, Law, Literary Studies, Philosophy, Politics, Religion,
Science and Medical, Scottish Studies
Manchester University Press
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/
Stated areas of expertise: not specified
Middlesex University Press
http://www.mupress.co.uk/
Stated areas of expertise: not specified
Nottingham University Press
http://www.nup.com/
Stated areas of expertise: animal and food science, nutrition,
agriculture and food, law, medicine, education, veterinary, meat
inspection, sport.
Open University Press
http://mcgraw-hill.co.uk/openup/
Stated areas of expertise: education, health, the social sciences,
management and study skill
Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com.au/
Stated areas of expertise: lots of stuff (see AAUP grid)
University of Wales Press
http://www.uwp.co.uk/
Stated areas of expertise: History, Political Philosophy and Religious
Studies, Welsh and Celtic Studies, Literary Studies, European Studies,
Medieval Studies