Authoring
Publishing with Oxford University Press
As an Oxford University Press (OUP) author, you will be part of a prestigious tradition of excellence. For over 500 years OUP has published the world’s finest minds, shaping and developing important and rigorous research and scholarship. OUP currently publishes nearly 2,000 books every year and over 500 of the highest quality academic journals.
Why publish with OUP
When you publish with OUP, you benefit from our:
- reputation for quality
- 500 years of publishing experience, coupled with future facing innovation and investment
- global presence and reach, connecting your work with diverse readers and maximizing your impact
- trusted relationships with the academic community
Our dedicated and expert publishing teams will support you every step of the way, adding value through constructive collaboration and helpful intervention to help your work reach its full potential. We connect powerful ideas with the widest audience, so that your research and scholarship achieves the greatest possible impact.
A reputation for quality
Our content is known and recognized for its quality and depth, and our commitment to publishing pioneering authors and authoritative content will never change. With OUP, you are joining a community of authors that includes Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners, and your research will sit alongside classic scholarship that has shaped our world.
Quality is the main criterion we consider when evaluating a new title for publication. All of our publications are peer-reviewed by outside readers or our editorial staff, to ensure we maintain the highest standards of scholarship and research. Our passionate and expert editorial team will work with you to hone and craft your publication, and it will be produced to exacting standards, whether in print or digital format.
Tradition meets innovation
At OUP, we have been publishing for nearly 550 years and it’s safe to say that our readers have changed a lot since 1478. But the pace of change has accelerated over the last 20 years, with advances in technology transforming how people behave, read, and find information. OUP has channelled our considerable experience and resources to build effective and long-term digital publishing platforms for the academic community. Your work will be published on a platform that has been designed for readers – they can swiftly search, read, and download books and journal articles at their convenience. Continuing investments in new capabilities will enable our publishing platforms to reach more readers than ever before.
We are future-facing and always innovating, keeping our eye on what is coming next for our community and how we can facilitate better research outcomes. OUP is committed to supporting different business models in the dissemination of our scholarly research. We now publish over 80 fully Open Access journals, alongside a number of Open Access monographs. OUP has read and publish agreements with institutions and consortia worldwide. If you are at a participating institution, you can publish Open Access in over 300 of our journals and your APC will be paid by your institution.
Global presence, reach, and impact
OUP is the world’s largest university press, with the widest global presence. This makes us uniquely placed to increase your impact, by connecting your ideas and research to a diverse readership. Our journal articles were read over 200 million times in 2020, and our online books are read in more than 100 countries each year and published in more than 40 languages. Our Developing Countries Initiative provides affordable access to scholars at institutions in less prosperous areas of the world, and the scheme was expanded in 2021 to include Oxford World’s Classics and What Everyone Needs to Know.
Our publishing achieves exceptional impact and coverage in the media, in 2019 alone we received: 4,800 academic book reviews, 600 interviews, 300 articles, and 200 excerpts.
Part of the academic community
Our mission is to further the University of Oxford’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education, by publishing worldwide. This mission guides how we work with the academic community and the content we produce. We invest and innovate to help improve the scholarly communications landscape for both authors and readers, and to make sure that our content is available in a way that meets the changing needs of scholars and researchers. As a not-for profit organisation and a department of the University of Oxford, income from the press is invested in back into the academic community.
We know that publication represents the culmination of years of hard work, dedication, and passion. We believe in the power of research to make a better tomorrow, and so we invite you to partner with OUP to help your work reach its full potential and reach readers across the world. Find out more about publishing books and journal articles with OUP.
