A university press is an academic, nonprofit publishing house that is typically affiliated with a large research university. It produces mainly scholarly works. Because scholarly books are mostly unprofitable, university presses may also publish trade books, textbooks, and reference works, which tend to have larger audiences and sell more copies. Most university presses operate at a loss and must be subsidized by their home universities. Some, notably Yale University Press, are self-sufficient, often because of endowments.

Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press are the two largest university presses in the world. The largest university press in the United States is the University of Chicago Press.

University presses tend to develop specialized areas of expertise. For example, Yale publishes many art books, the University of Chicago publishes many academic journals, the University of Illinois press specializes in labor history, and MIT Press publishes linguistics titles.

University presses by country: English-speaking countries

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Australia

• Melbourne University Publishing

Canada

• McGill-Queen's University Press
• University of Alberta Press
• University of Toronto Press

New Zealand

• Otago University Press
• Victoria University Press

South Africa

• University of Cape Town Press
• Witwatersrand University Press

United Kingdom

• Cambridge University Press
• Oxford University Press

United States

The oldest university press in the United States is the Cornell University Press, founded in 1869.

University presses in the United States include:

• Columbia University Press
• Cornell University Press
• Fordham University Press
• Harvard University Press
• Johns Hopkins University Press
• Kent State University Press
• MIT Press
• Penn State Press
• Princeton University Press
• State University of New York (SUNY) Press
• Texas A&M University Press
• Yale University Press
• University of Alaska Press
• University of Arizona Press
• University of California Press
• University of Chicago Press
• University of Georgia Press
• University of Illinois Press
• University of Nebraska Press
• University of Pittsburgh Press
• University Press of Florida
• University Press of Kentucky
• University of Pittsburgh Press
• Rutgers University Press
• Stanford University Press
• Stefan University Press
• Wharton School Publishing
• Yale University Press

University presses by country: Non-English-speaking countries

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Denmark

• Museum Tusculanum Press

France

• University Presses of France

Germany

Italy

Japan

Poland

• The Nicolaus Copernicus University Press

Russia

References

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External link

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• The Association of American University Presses Homepage

Academic publishing | University book publishers

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