University of Adelaide Press
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| Parent company | University of Adelaide |
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| Founded | 2009 |
| Defunct | December 2018  |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Headquarters location | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Publication types | Books, academic journals |
| Official website | www |
The University of Adelaide Press is the book publishing arm of The University of Adelaide. It publishes peer-reviewed scholarship in print and open access ebooks. It is one of the few book publishers in the world to offer new titles in a free open access version on release.
History
In the 1920s, around the time the University of Melbourne established Australia’s first university press, the University of Adelaide began publishing titles under various imprints. In partnership with printers, G Hassell & Co, the university produced leather-bound hand-tooled collectible works modeled on the output of Oxford University Press.[1]
In 1996, the correspondence of Joanna Elder and Robert Barr Smith was published by the Barr Smith Library (the University’s main library) under the imprint ‘Barr Smith Press’. From 2005 to 2007, the current director of the University of Adelaide Press, John Emerson, oversaw the publication of four books under the renamed ‘University of Adelaide Barr Smith Press’. 2009 saw the launch of the current University of Adelaide Press.[2]
Activities
The University of Adelaide Press titles are published as free ebooks on the Press webpage and are available to purchase in print. The Press is divided into two separate imprints, the ‘University of Adelaide Press’ and the ‘Barr Smith Press’.
The ‘University of Adelaide Press’ publishes peer-reviewed scholarship. Book-length works are subject to a selection process and submitted to external referees before publication.[3]
The ‘Barr Smith Press’ publishes works of interest about the history and activities of The University of Adelaide, including memoirs, biographies and histories of its clubs and institutions.[4]