Welcome to Liverpool University Press and our Digital Collaboration Hub

Liverpool University Press (LUP) excels at publishing thought-provoking and engaging research that challenges and contributes to knowledge and debates. Combining a distinguished 120-year history with the forward-thinking mindset of a young start-up, we strive to meet the needs of our authors, whether through traditional formats and workflows or through innovation and additional functionality.

This is our Digital Collaboration Hub on Manifold, providing our authors with a place to publish additional resources for their LUP publications, generating additional impact for their work as well as engagement with readers and the academic community.

Supporting and publishing Open Access since 2010, Liverpool University Press was the first publisher to sign up to Knowledge Unlatched, launched Modern Languages Open, a peer-reviewed online platform for modern languages in 2014, created innovative Open Access e-textbooks for students including Using Primary Sources and Essentials of Financial Management, and established the Open Access Author Fund to support Open Access publications by early career researchers. We have published over 50 Open Access monographs, which are available on our website, and following are Open Access publications which contain additional resources to support students and researchers.

The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, the volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French. Available in print from Liverpool University Press and as a digital collection, following are innovative digital projects published in the series.

This collection showcases four of the highlights of the University of Liverpool’s medieval and renaissance manuscript collections. These four fully digitised manuscripts - an English literary text, a Book of Hours, a service book and a portolan chart - demonstrate a diversity of forms and features of interest to students of manuscript studies and medieval culture. When seen in the context of the collections from which they derive, they are also a witness to the cultural and educational life of Liverpool from the late nineteenth century onwards. The University's collection in particular reflects the taste and aspirations of the City's wealthy benefactors, and the generosity of the families wishing to commemorate their lives.