A prestigious Society and University Press partner to challenge traditional book publishing Open Access monographs are revolutionizing the scholarly publishing world: scholarship made freely available for download, with print versions for sale on demand. Now, a new collaboration is offering something more. The University of Calgary Press and the British Society for the Philosophy of […]
Exploring improvements to global OA monograph data analytics through a collective usage data trust The University of Calgary Press, a leading Canadian publisher of Open Access scholarly books, announced today its participation in the global Exploring Open Access eBook Usage (OAeBU) data trust pilot project supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Director of the […]
The Manhattan Project by Ken Hunt has been reviewed at rob mclennan’s venerable poetry blog. Visit rob’s blog for a toothy exploration of this necropastoral poetic, along with a special sneak peek!
We are deeply saddened to share the obituary of Greg Donaghy. A scholar with a passion for social justice, Greg was the co-editor of three books with UCalgary Press, including From Kinshasa to Kandahar and the recent A Samaritan State Revisited. We remember him as a first-class editor, a skilled collaborator, and a person of intelligence and […]
“Before corndogs, fireworks and packed grandstands, there were frontier families working together to settle new land, innovate the cattle business and build strong communities — they lived the stories at the heart of the Stampede spirit we celebrate each year…” Celebrate the Calgary Stampede in a year of social distancing our favourite way . . […]
The Book Publisher’s Association of Alberta has released the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards Shortlist, including six UCalgary Press Books! The Red Chesterfield for Best Trade Fiction Intertwined Histories: Plants in Their Social Contexts for Best Trade Nonfiction Air Salt: A Trauma Memoire as a Result of the Fall for the Robert Kroetsch Award for […]
Earl Wiseman, co-author of Fishing for a Solution: Canada’s Fisheries Relations with the European Union, 1977-2013, published by University of Calgary Press, passed away in Ottawa on April 8. Deeply experienced in Canada’s foreign fisheries policy and Canada-EU fisheries relations, Earl spent much of his career in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, where he […]
Open UP: The University Pres Community Opens Resources to Support Learning and Research The University Press community is opening a wide variety of resources, books, and journals to support student learning and scholarly research in these difficult times. More than 80 publishers have contributed information about those open or free access materials. The University […]
The University of Calgary Press is celebrating 10 years of Open Access! The University of Calgary Press published its first Open Access book in 2010. From that moment forward, the Press embraced Open Access as part of our mandate and as a vitally important tool to share scholarship with the world. Throughout 2020 we are […]
The Red Chesterfield is now available in braille transcription. The University of Calgary Press is honoured to partner with the National Network for Equitable Library Service Braille Publication Project to produce a braille transcription of Wayne Arthurson’s The Red Chesterfield The new transcription is available as both an embossed volume and electronic braille files (BRF) […]