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UCL Press exceeds 10 million global downloads
30 May 2024
UCL Press, the UK’s first fully Open Access University Press, has announced that its open access books and journals have been downloaded more than 10 million times around the world.
UCL Press has published 339 books that have been downloaded more than 8.7 million times and its 14 journals have attracted more than 2.6 million downloads.
Its publications have reached readers in 242 countries and territories worldwide, providing access to vital academic research to readers in the Global South and beyond.
The 10 millionth download was the journal article 'A short history of the successes and failures of the international climate change negotiations' by Mark A. Maslin, John Lang and Fiona Harvey, which appeared in the pioneering open science journal UCL Open: Environment.
The most popular title in the UCL Press list continues to be How the World Changed Social Media by UCL Professor of Anthropology by Daniel Miller and a collective of eight other global anthropologists. It has been downloaded an astonishing 828,129 times since it was published in 2016, and has been translated into a variety of languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Portuguese and Italian.
Lara Speicher, Head of Publishing at UCL Press, said:
"It is an immense achievement to have achieved 10 million downloads for UCL Press’s publications and it is thanks to the combined contributions of our incredibly talented and forward-thinking authors who have embraced the OA model, the original vision of senior leaders at UCL to start the Press in the first place and to provide ongoing support and encouragement, and last but not least, the dedication, skill and commitment of the UCL Press team who work hard behind the scenes every day to bring UCL Press’s outputs to the world."