Major publishers

The publications of dozens of other publishers are included on the University of Chicago Press website, carried within our catalogs, and marketed and sold to the book trade and the public. Our major distributed publishers are listed below. Please note that the University of Chicago Press may not have sales rights for these publishers throughout the world. To visit a publisher’s home website, click on its logo.

Publicity news about our distributed publishers is posted to our distributed presses blog.

Amsterdam University Press publishes academic and general interest books in Dutch and English. Their list is strong in literary studies, film studies, archaeology, and current European economic and political issues. UCP distributes the English-language titles of AUP in the USA and Canada.

The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford publishes books related to their collection, in some cases facsimile editons of rare or noteworthy titles. UCP distributes Bodleian Library titles in North America.

The British Library publishes bibliographical reference, manuscript studies, illustrated books based on the Library's collections, and book arts. UCP distributes British Library titles in the United States of America.

UCP distributes worldwide selected titles published by Brigham Young University, including art exhibition catalogs and books published by the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative.

Campus Verlag is a German publisher. Campus also publishes titles in English in the social sciences, history, cultural sciences, and philosophy. UCP distributes these titles worldwide.

The Center for American Places publishes books on geographical and environmental topics, including many stunning books of photography. UCP distributes CAP titles worldwide.

The Center for the Study of Language and Information, an independent research center in Stanford, CA, publishes books in information science, computing, linguistics, cognition, and philosophy. UCP distributes CSLI titles worldwide.

Conservation International, based in Washington, DC, publishes books related to its mission to preserve global biodiversity, including field guides, reports, and heavily-illustrated books. UCP distributes Conservation International titles worldwide.

Dana Press, a division of the Dana Foundation, publishes health and popular science books about the brain for the general reader. UCP distributes Dana Press titles worldwide.

Eburon Academic Publishers in Delft, the Netherlands, publishes scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences. UCP distributes English-language Eburon titles worldwide except in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Front Forty Press creates and publishes materials and products on a variety of topics through unique relationships. A Front Forty Press project is one that embodies uninhibited creativity and deals with current topics. The work can be functional, political, ecological or simply expressive. What matters most is the cultivation and communication of ideas. UCP distributes Front Forty Press titles throughout the world.

Intellect is a UK-based company committed to serving the academic community by publishing authors and editors with original thinking. UCP distributes Intellect titles throughout the world excluding the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. For publicity news about Intellect titles see their blog, News From Intellect.

The Karolinum Press, Charles University, Prague, is an academic publisher established in 1990 that has produced more than 3,500 titles, making it the largest publisher of scientific and educational books in the Czech Republic. UCP distributes English-language Karolinum Press titles in North America.

KNAW is the publishing department of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. KNAW publishes academic books in the humanities and social sciences. UCP distributes English-language KNAW titles in Canada and the United States.

KWS Publishers is a new scholarly and reference book publisher, based in Chicago and London. UCP distributes KWS titles worldwide.

Liverpool University Press publishes academic and general interest books in history, literature, art and architecture. UCP distributes Liverpool University Press titles in North America.

Reaktion Books publishes books for general readers and for academics in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural history. UCP distributes Reaktion Books in the USA and Canada.

With offices in London and Calcutta, Seagull Books has dedicated itself to quality arts and culture publishing. From documentation of cultural history in the making, to building a climate of critique, its focus is firmly on the alternative and the experimental, and on the socially committed. UCP distributes Seagull Books worldwide, except India.

Swan Isle Press publishes literary titles, often in bilingual Spanish/English editions. UCP distributes Swan Isle Press titles worldwide.

University of Alaska Press publishes books on Alaska, the Pacific Rim, Arctic Canada, Siberia, and Scandinavia. UCP distributes University of Alaska Press titles worldwide.

University of Exeter Press publishes in medieval studies, classical studies, European literature, history, film history, performance studies, archaeology, landscape history and south-west (UK) studies. UCP distributes University of Exeter titles in North and South America.

University of Scranton Press publishes books in religion and social sciences. UCP distributes University of Scranton Press titles worldwide.

The University of Wales Press publishes English and Welsh-language books in History, Political Philosophy and Religious Studies, Welsh and Celtic Studies, Literary Studies, European Studies, and Medieval Studies. UCP distributes English-language University of Wales Press titles in North and South America.

Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess is a Swiss publisher specializing in art, architecture, and photography. UCP distributes English-language VSS titles everywhere outside of Europe and the UK.

WhiteWalls is an innovative Chicago-based publisher of fine art titles. UCP distributes WhiteWalls titles worldwide.