Why publish with Oxford University Press

As an Oxford University Press (OUP) author, you will be part of a prestigious tradition of excellence. For over 500 years OUP has published the world’s finest minds, helping shape the most important scholarship and research. OUP currently publishes almost 2,000 books every year and over 500 of the highest quality academic journals.

When you publish with OUP, you benefit from our:

reputation for quality
500 years of pioneering publishing experience, where tradition meets innovation
global presence and reach
trusted relationships with the academic community

Our expert publishing teams will support you every step of the way, adding value through constructive collaboration to help your work reach its full potential. We will connect your ideas with the widest audience, so that your research achieves the greatest possible impact.

A reputation for quality

Our content is known and recognized for its quality and depth, and our commitment to publishing pioneering authors and authoritative content will never change. With OUP, you are joining a community of authors that includes Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners, and your research will sit alongside classic scholarship that has shaped our world.

Quality is the main criterion we consider when evaluating a new title for publication. All of our publications are peer-reviewed by experts in the relevant fields, to ensure we maintain the highest standards of scholarship. Our expert editorial team will work with you to hone your publication, and it will be produced to exacting standards, whether in print or digital format.

OUP is facing the new world of artificial-intelligence-enabled research head-on. We are actively defining a responsible and sustainable future for AI tools to support the best possible research outcomes and champion our authors and the broader research community.

Tradition meets innovation

At OUP, we have been publishing for nearly 550 years. It’s safe to say that research and our readership have changed a lot since 1478. We have channelled our considerable experience and resources to build effective and long-term  digital publishing platforms  to meet the needs of the academic community in the discovery of and engagement with research. Your work will be published on a platform that has been designed with readers and users of all kinds in mind – they can swiftly search, read, and download books, chapters, reference and journal articles at their convenience. Continuing investments in new capabilities will enable our publishing platforms to reach more readers than ever before.

To make our high-quality research publishing as available and discoverable as possible, we have made a series of search and speed improvements to Oxford Academic, which receives over 184 million unique visitors from 251 different countries annually.

Accessibility

When you publish with OUP, you can trust that your work will be accessible. Through the Oxford Academic platform, we continuously strive to make our products accessible to and inclusive of all our users, including those with visual, hearing, cognitive, or motor impairments. 

Open Access

We are future-facing and always innovating, keeping our eye on what is coming next for our community and how we can facilitate better research outcomes. OUP is committed to supporting different business models in the dissemination of our scholarly research. We publish over 500 journals which are either fully open access, or offer open access options to authors, alongside a number of  Open Access monographs. OUP has  read and publish  agreements with institutions and consortia worldwide. If you are at a participating institution, you can publish Open Access in over 300 of our journals and your article processing charge may be covered by your institution.

Global presence, reach, and impact

OUP is the world’s largest university press, with the widest global presence. This makes us uniquely placed to increase your impact by connecting your ideas and research to a diverse readership.

Over 200 million of our journal articles are read each year
Our online books are read in more than 100 countries each year and published in more than 40 languages
We have customers in 184 countries and regions

Our Developing Countries Initiative  provides affordable access to scholars at institutions in less prosperous areas of the world.

Our publishing achieves exceptional impact and coverage in the media, annually receiving over 4,800 academic book reviews, 2,000 books publicity hits, and journal press releases resulting in over 1,000 news articles.

Part of the academic community

Our mission is to further the University of Oxford’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education, by publishing worldwide. This mission guides how we work with the academic community and the content we produce. We invest and innovate to help improve the scholarly communications landscape for both authors and readers, and to make sure that our content is made available in a way that meets the changing needs of scholars and researchers. As a department of the University of Oxford we are part of the academic community, and our surplus is invested back into scholarship and education.

We know that the path to publication represents the culmination of years of hard work, dedication, and passion. We believe in the power of research to make a better tomorrow, and so we invite you to partner with OUP to help your work reach its full potential and reach readers across the world. Find out more about publishing  books  and  journal articles  with OUP.