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FirstGen Program: Looking Back on Three Years of Learning, Support, and Growth
Mar 26 2025
Three years into our FirstGen Program—and 104 new projects signed—we reflect on the program’s growth and achievements.
UC Press Becomes Publisher of Science Fiction Studies, which Releases New Special Issue on "Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction as Slipstream"
Mar 06 2025
The guest editor of UC Press's new journal answers the question, "Why have a journal special issue on Southeast Asian speculative fiction?"
Meet the New Editor of "Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos": Matthew Butler
Feb 28 2025
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos incoming editor is interested in continuing the journal's foundational mission, while finding new ways to increase MSEM’s visibility throughout Mexico and to intensify interdisciplinary dialogue within the pages of MSEM.
Why You Should Care About Style—Lessons from a Production Editor at UC Press
Feb 25 2025
Every seven years or so, editors across the country observe an important but unofficial holiday: the release of a new edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. The most recent edition is full of new and updated guidance on the writing, editing, and publishing of books.
AI and Scholarly Publishing
Feb 11 2025
As historians of science, we consider the potential impact of AI on our own scholarly writing and the training of students, along with viewing AI in the context of a longer historical conversation about the nature of knowledge, the rules of authorship, and human interactions with technology.
Book Publishing Resources Redux
Dec 20 2024
As the year comes to a close, we’ve rounded up some new and helpful resources for scholars embarking on your writing or book publishing journey.
Music Perception Announces New Associate and Consulting Editors
Nov 01 2024
Meet Music Perception's new associate and consulting editors.
UC Press Welcomes the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
Oct 30 2024
The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture will be published by UC Press beginning in Spring 2025.
Ask Our Staff: What is Copyediting
Oct 28 2024
In this video Senior Production Editors Emily Park and Julie Van Pelt talk about the first step in doing that: copyediting, specifically book copyediting. They discuss what it is, what you can expect, and how you and your copyeditor will work together.
Disrupting Racism and Global Exclusion in Academic Publishing: Recommendations and Resources for Authors, Reviewers, and Editors
Aug 02 2024
Following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, a brief window of time opened to “take audacious steps to address systemic racial inequality.”