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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 {{Infobox university , name = University of Calgary , image = University of Calgary coat of arms without motto scroll.svg , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms , former ...
. Located in
Calgary, Alberta Calgary () is a major city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a Metropolitan area, metropolitan population of 1,481,806 making it the List of ...
, 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 ''
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'' with the Arctic Institute of North America. The press is currently a member of the
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.


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 West


History

On October 22, 2010, as part of "Open Access Week", the University of Calgary Press released its first
open access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 de ...
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.


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