Literature, postcolonial studies

Far from Provincial – In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa by Graham Pechey

To mark the publication of the late Graham Pechey’s collected essays on South African culture and writing In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa, his daughter Dr Laura Pechey and Professor Tony Voss share their reflections on this important new collection.

Journals, Modern Languages, News

Spotlight on Crossing Languages: Free to read journal articles and 30% off selected e-book and print books

As part of our Spotlight on Crossing Languages, enjoy a discount on selected books and free access to a selection of articles from across our journals, available until June 30th 2022. For this month’s Crossing Languages Spotlight, we are focusing on our books, journals and digital collections that highlight modern languages, translation, culture and the … Continue reading

Journals, News

Celebrating LUP Open Planning success: leading planning journals now available Open Access through new subscribe to open model

We are pleased to announce that our Subscribe to Open initiative, LUP Open Planning has now reached its target for 2022. This means that this year's content for our planning and development journals, Town Planning Review and International Development Planning Review, is now available via Open Access!

News

OpenUP Early Career Researcher (ECR) Monograph initiative 

ECRs: the challenges  Open Access is becoming ever more important for researchers, research funders and readers. With limited resources available for Gold Open Access, early career researchers (ECRs) face significant barriers. They must compete with established scholars while they build a successful track record of publication, their employment contracts may be short-term, or otherwise less … Continue reading