Each year, we take a tour of the blogs in our larger community, with a series that daily addresses different aspects of the week’s theme. This year, blog tour posts will examine ways that university presses Step UP to educate and enlighten, motivate and inspire, support and act, using some common interrogatives.
- Monday: Who StepsUP at, with, or for your press?
- Tuesday: What does your press do to StepUP?
- Wednesday: When does your press StepUP?
- Thursday: Where does your press StepUP?
- Friday: How does your press StepUP?
Monday
Who StepsUP at, with, or for your press?
Step UP: Appreciation for our Freelancers
University of Alberta Press
How My Community-Based Research Turned into Community Service
Temple University Press
Interview with Mary Ellen Curtin, biographer of Barbara Jordan
University of Pennsylvania Press
Illuminating Manuscripts: How Copyeditors Shine a Light on Scholarship
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Liza Grandia, author of Kernels of Resistance, on Mesoamerican Food Activists
University of Washington Press
Interview with Press Director Than Saffel
West Virginia University Press
On the new book, Women in Independent Publishing (University of New Mexico Press)
Book Work, Substack
Stepping UP at Home and Beyond
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Who StepsUP at Purdue University Press
Purdue University Press
A History of Stepping UP for Books
Syracuse University Press
Designer & compositor Lacey Losh on the work of the press’s Justice Equity Diversity, and Inclusion Committee
University of Nebraska Press
Read to Respond lists
Duke University Press
Mare Nostrum Group “Step UP” to support and celebrate university presses
Combined Academic Publishers
The Importance of Teamwork: Who Steps UP for UVM Press?
University of Vermont Press
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Black Women’s Intellectual Thought
Yale University Press
Series Spotlight: Reading the Gothic
Manchester University Press
Interview with assistant acquisitions editor Leigh Ann Cowan
Interview with acquisitions editor Mariah Schaefer
University of Illinois Press
Meet Director Eric Schwartz
NYU Press
75 Years of Stepping UP
University of Notre Dame Press
Stepping UP with Illuminating Scholarship
MIT Press
Tuesday
What does your press do to StepUP?
Accessibility at AU Press
Athabasca University Press
Focus on Early Career Researchers
Liverpool University Press
Celebrating University Press Week 2024: Fulcrum
University of Michigan Press
Spotlight on Penn Press journals and open access
University of Pennsylvania Press
Getting Your Foot in the Door: Widening Participation with the EUP Publishing Internship
Edinburgh University Press
Step UP with Advancing Inclusive Publishing: Leuven UP Makes Academic Content Accessible to All
Leuven University Press
“Stepping UP” to educate and enlighten on Refugee and Forced Migration Issues
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Using Diamond Open Access to Break Down Barriers
University of Vermont Press
The Supporting Diverse Voices Book Grants Program
Princeton University Press
Serving Indigenous Nations and Communities
University of Washington Press
Conversation with H. Knox Thames, author of Ending Persecution: Charting the Path to Global Religious Freedom
University of Notre Dame Press
Gender and Race in American History
University of Rochester Press
Amplifying DEIA Voices: How Hopkins Press Steps UP for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
Johns Hopkins University Press
How Author Reiko Hillyer Steps UP for Readers in Prison
Duke University Press
On publishing innovative mental health research
Purdue University Press
Why Publishing in Native American and Indigenous Studies Matters Today
University of Nebraska Press
75 Years of Stepping UP
University of Utah Press
First Author’s Initiative: A Q&A with UPM Director Craig W. Gill
University Press of Mississippi
Partnership for Open Publishing
UNC Press
The Internship Experience: Thoughts from Hollis Druhet
University of Illinois Press
UT Press and the Wider Texas Community
University of Texas Press
Five Questions with Neil Gong, author of Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles
University of Chicago Press
Practising Nakoda: Overview and Reflections on Nakoda Language Documentation by Vincent Collette
NYU Press
Wednesday
When does your press StepUP?
The Privateers: Truth, Controversy, and Book Publishing in the 21st Century
Harvard Education Press
Editor Miranda Martin on Stepping UP for Earth’s Climate
Columbia University Press
How the American Philosophical Society Press (distributed by Penn Press) stepped up in 1945 to publish on the science and implications of atomic weapons
University of Pennsylvania Press
On This Book Is Free and Yours to Keep: Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project
West Virginia University Press
In 2025, Hopkins Press Steps UP our Subscribe to Open Initiative
Johns Hopkins University Press
Building Community through the Nebraska Celebration of Books
University of Nebraska Press
Publishing as a Calling: David Carlson
University of Notre Dame Press
Reporting on the “Free People Read Freely” symposium
University of Illinois Press
Thursday
Where does your press StepUP?
Stepping UP at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Cornell University Press
Publishing Success at Home and in the World
Kent State University Press
Caelyn Cobb on Stepping UP for Turbulent Times: Making Sense of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Columbia University Press
How the Wharton School Press, an imprint of Penn Press, publishes books that challenge organizations to step up in the marketplace
University of Pennsylvania Press
Spotlight on the Salvaging the Anthropocene series
West Virginia University Press
On the Navigating Careers in Higher Education series
Purdue University Press
How UT Press Brings Books to Life in Austin
University of Texas Press
Florida and Sustainability
University Press of Florida
Where Do We Step UP?
SUNY Press
The African Poetry Book Fund Has Given African Poets a Platform to Thrive
University of Nebraska Press
A Healthy Planet, a Healthy People
University of Vermont Press
Introducing a new blog series from acquisitions editor Alison Syring
University of Illinois Press
Stepping UP for Sustainability
University of Notre Dame Press
Friday
How does your press StepUP?
USC Press Steps UP for First-Gen Low-Income Students
University of South Carolina Press
Making Sense of Current Political Processes
University of Virginia Press
Stepping UP Our Accessibility
University of Notre Dame Press
A Commitment to Publishing Translations
Bucknell University Press
A Reading List of Journal Articles that StepUP to Face Present Challenges
University of Chicago Press
Stepping Up Visibility: Using SEO to Amplify UGA Press Titles
University of Georgia Press
How our distribution program brings diverse and important books to Canadian readers
University of British Columbia Press
Embracing Open Access
Edinburgh University Press
Queer Healing and Transformative Justice
Michigan State University Press
The Story Quilts of Yvonne Wells
University of Alabama Press
Supporting the transition to a fairer global research ecosystem
Bristol University Press
On questioning and redefining underlying scholarly assumptions, by author Omer Aijazi
University of Pennsylvania Press
Stepping UP to Health Humanities and Narrative Medicine with Connective Tissue Series Editor Renée K. Nicholson
West Virginia University Press
How Humanities #StepUP for STEM via Project MUSE
Johns Hopkins University Press
From Resilience to Resistance: A Journal Steps UP
University of Nebraska Press
Stepping UP to Promote Literacy in New York City
Fordham University Press
Focus on education books and journals
University of Illinois Press
How We #StepUP to support DEI
SUNY Press