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UCL Press passes 10m global downloads
15 April 2024
Our books and journals on UCL Press, the UK’s first fully Open Access University Press, have been downloaded more than ten million times around the world. The ten millionth download was an article by Mark Maslin, Academic Lead for our Climate Crisis Grand Challenge.
UCL Press’s pioneering publishing programme spans many of the major academic disciplines, from history to philosophy and the sciences to anthropology. The Press has published 339 books that have been downloaded more than 8.7 million times, whilst its 14 journals have attracted more than 2.6 million downloads.
Its publications – which feature monographs, edited collections, academic journals and textbooks – have reached readers in 242 countries and territories worldwide, providing access to vital academic research to readers in the Global South and beyond.
The ten 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.
Mark Maslin is Pro-Vice-Provost for our new UCL Grand Challenges Theme of Climate Crisis.
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