The University of Warwick Pressis a digital, open access, non-profit and community-led publisher of books and a range of academic journalsacross the academic disciplines. As part of a strategic review, the Press is currently exploring future routes to future sustainability, scalability and publishing opportunities. The Press is also a member of the Open Institutional Publishing Association, an UK community comprising similar new university presses.
Currently, UWP has a family of journals with a history dating back to the early online journals in the 1990s. All journals are run by teams of editors based at and beyond Warwick, and to whom questions about submissions and publication should be directed.
Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal (ISSN 2053-9665Link opens in a new window) is a peer-reviewed, open access, online journal dedicated to the publication of high-quality work by researchers in all disciplines, especially early career researchers and emerging domain experts, along with those combining research with academic teaching or other professional employment. The journal welcomes articles from all academic areas, including interdisciplinary research and co-authored papers, in order to encourage intellectual exchange and debate across research communities.
Reinvention is an established online, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality undergraduate student research and critical reflections twice a year with occasional special issues. The journal welcomes academic articles from all student researchers across all disciplines and universities. Published by the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL), University of Warwick, Reinvention has an Editorial Board of students from Warwick who are joined by students guest Assistant Editors from a selection of our international partner institutions. IATL is an educational innovation academic department, and develops student research initiatives including Reinvention, the International Conference of Undergraduate Research, Posters in Parliament, it also supports the British Conference of Undergraduate Research and Posters in the European Parliament.
Feminist Dissent brings together innovative and critical insights to enhance our understanding of the relationship between gender, fundamentalism and related socio-political issues.
Polisemie is an international peer-reviewed journal of literary criticism devoted to hyper-contemporary poetry of all languages. Our aim is to discover and explain the poetic voices of our time through academic articles, interviews and events.
Alternautas is a multi-disciplinary journal devoted to counter-balancing mainstream understandings of development in/from Latin America – Abya Yala. Alternautas emerges from a desire to bridge language barriers by bringing Latin American critical development thinking to broader English-speaking audiences. The journal covers a broad range of development issues across regular and special issues. The journal was launched in 2014 and is fully open access, with no fees for readers or authors.
The Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice is a co-created peer-reviewed journal organised by a multidisciplinary team of postgraduates for all postgraduates, and anyone interested in supporting their teaching practice. We provide a space for postgraduate researchers (PGRs) to share their unique perspectives on their teaching practice, their successes and their failures, and their experiences in higher education. We hope to offer comforting examples and thought-provoking reflections for the wider community of PGRs. To others, we hope they are indicative of the sort of novel pedagogies PGRs have cultivated and the challenges they faced in their teaching.
The Journal of Law, Social Justice and Global Development is an interdisciplinary academic peer-review research journal. It is Open Access and distributed internationally in both electronic and hard copy form. It represents a growing community of scholars and development practitioners who contribute critically to policy debates on global sustainable development.
Plí: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy (ISSN: 1367-3769) is a peer-reviewed journal of philosophy edited and produced by members of the Graduate School of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and associated contributors. Plí has no specific set of philosophical concerns but previous issues have focused on European philosophical traditions, especially Continental Philosophy, reflecting the interests of the graduate community at Warwick.
WJETT is an online, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the publication of high-quality articles in the field of education. It focusses on practitioner research, professional development and school improvement. WJETT publishes annually, is Open Access and without a fee.
BALEAP already has a relationship with the Journal of English for Academic Purposes (JEAP), published by Elsevier (online ISSN: 1878-1497). The JEAP has an impact factor of 3.1, a CiteScore of 6.6 and an acceptance rate of 11%. BALEAP has historically had an agreement with Garnet who would publish the biennial conference proceedings. Garnet has since decided to end this agreement. As such the BALEAP community needs a new home for the publication of the conference proceedings and research and practice papers that pertain to the field of English for Academic Purposes. The BALEAP Journal will be the new home of the conference proceedings. The journal will publish other submissions of any genre. The Journal’s mission is to challenge and drive the field forward.
As a press we are committed to open access dissemination of research and teaching materials while maintaining the academic quality of the work we disseminate. The press is designed to be a place where researchers and academics can experiment and innovate their approach to publishing.
Submissions
This press is not accepting book submissions at this time.
Dr Catherine Grimley, Dr Briony Hudson, Rachel Warren, Dr Emily Harrop, Jane Murray, Gil Hilleard, Lesley Goodburn, Alex Matheson, Dr John MacArtney
May 25, 2023
Strategic review
Following a study by local academics in 2023, there was a recommendation for an active redevelopment of UWP. The outcomes from this twelve-month project will be:
a business case with rationalised recommendations for staffing, models and evolution of the Press.
an outline five-year operational and implementation plan to bring about this evolutionary change.
an exploration of routes through in which UWP can be enhanced, refined and supported within its current operational paradigm.
Recommendations and resource implications emerging from these outcomes will be considered by Warwick’s senior managerial and leadership strata, who will make any final decision on the Press’ future direction.
Project phases
The Press Manager reports to a Project Board, headed by the University Librarian, and liaises closely with the Library’s Open Research and Research and Academic Support teams. The strategic review project itself has five phases of activity, scheduled to run from mid-September 2025 to mid-September 2026.
This phase scoped and explored modes of operation at other new university presses while establishing key markers and mechanisms for successful operation.
Conversations were held with local scholars and other stakeholders to help share operations that resonated with institutional ambitions and to identify areas where a future UWP could add value.
Outline plans and proposals for an evolved Press were developed, tested and refined using insights gathered from the local community.
Outputs and recommendations were refined, and key governance structures were established to support quality-assured and effective operations. Reporting to, and feedback from, University committees also formed a key strand of this phase.
Final business, implementation and project plans were delivered to the Project Board. Project activities were concluded, and key assets were handed over to colleagues as appropriate.
Once the recommendations and proposed developments are secured, implementation of the Press’ new iteration is expected to commence during the 2026/27 academic year.
Contact & further Information
For information regarding the project, enquiries could be directed to library@warwick.ac.uk
