Category: Publishing

Tips for authors during COVID-19

Tips for authors during COVID-19

Just because your local bookstore has closed its doors or your campus has shut down, that doesn’t mean you can’t still have launch events or spread the word about your… READ MORE

Indie Bound: Brooklyn Book Festival Recap

Indie Bound: Brooklyn Book Festival Recap

—Sara Johnson
In honor of University Press Week, a collaborative effort by five New York/New Jersey Presses at this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival.

The work at hand

The work at hand

—Eric Zinner
In the wake of this traumatic election, and preparing for the onslaughts to come—against higher education, against the people and ideas we so ardently publish about and for—I thought it would he helpful to turn back to those same scholars for their thoughts, their ideas, for context, for perspective.

NYU Press celebrates 100 years

NYU Press celebrates 100 years

On April 17th, 1916, New York University Press was founded by action of the University Council’s Board of Trustees. An effort initiated by Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown, who stated its purpose to be: “to publish contributions to higher learning by eminent scholars”.

Buzzed on research

—Andrew M. Schocket Research can be boring, draining, sometimes physically or emotionally exhausting. For previous projects, I’ve logged weeks worth of time doing data entry, and have had students who have dealt with… READ MORE

UP Week: Announcing the new Keywords

Happy University Press Week! We are thrilled to once again be featured the final run of the university press blog tour—this year, with a post from Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler,… READ MORE