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The University of Calgary Press is a university publishing house that is a wholly owned subsidiary of the 
University of Calgary
The University of Calgary (U of C or UCalgary) is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The University of Calgary started in 1944 as the Calgary branch of the University of Alberta, founded in 1908, prior to being ins ...
. Located in Calgary, Alberta
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...
, it publishes peer-reviewed scholarly books that connect local experiences to global communities. It became an Open Access press on October 22, 2010.
Affiliations
The University of Calgary Press is part of the Centre for Scholarly Communication of the University of Calgary's Libraries and Cultural Resources. It also co-publishes ''Arctic
The Arctic ( or ) is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean, adjacent seas, and parts of Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Danish Realm (Greenland), Finland, Iceland, N ...
'' with the Arctic Institute of North America
The Arctic Institute of North America is a multi-disciplinary research institute and educational organization located in the University of Calgary. It is mandated to study the North American and circumpolar Arctic in the areas of natural scien ...
.
Publications
The publishing specialties of the University of Calgary Press are: African Studies; Arctic and Northern Studies; Contemporary Canadian Art and Architecture; Energy, Ecology and Sustainability; Film Studies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Military and Strategic Studies; and The West. The Press currently has nine series, including: * Africa: Missing Voices * Art in Profile: Canadian Art and Architecture * Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies * Canadian History and Environment * Latin American & Caribbean Studies * Northern Lights * The WestHistory
On October 22, 2010, as part of "Open Access Week", the University of Calgary Press released its first open access book, ''Grey Matters, a Guide for Collaborative Research''. Since then, the Press has continued to release titles as open access, and as of March 2016 offers 71 titles under a Creative Commons License.References
External links
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