Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction offers the first analysis of the representation of computational algorithms and their cultural consequences in twenty-first-century fiction, defining an emerging tradition of fiction attempting to redefine the novel’s relevance within digital culture. In this blog post, author Jaime Harrison delves into how, coinciding with the completion of his manuscript, the public conversation surrounding digital culture underwent a significant transformation following the introduction of ChatGPT. To say that public discourse on digital culture shifted somewhat foll ..read more

We are pleased to announce that our Subscribe to Open initiative, LUP Open Planning, has now reached its target for 2024. This means that this year’s content from our planning and development journals, Town Planning Review (TPR) and International Development Planning Review (IDPR), is now available to read freely via Open Access alongside content from 2023 and 2022! As leading planning and development journals, TPR and IDPR provide a forum for communication between researchers and students, policy analysts and practitioners. We are proud to bring the latest content to all reade ..read more

As part of our 125th anniversary celebrations we are taking a look at the future of academic publishing with a spotlight on Early Career Academics. In this post we hear from Maria Czepiel whose work has been published in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (BHS), recognised across the world as one of the front-ranking journals in the field of Hispanic research, and a journal which started life at LUP in 1923 and last year celebrated its 100th anniversary. Tell us a bit about yourself and your research My name is Maria Czepiel and I am currently a Lecturer in Spanish at Brasenose and Balliol Col ..read more

The editors of Town Planning Review (TPR) have selected the following paper as the Featured Article in TPR Volume 95.2. This paper will be free to access for a limited time: ‘Ideology, statecraft and the ‘double shuffle’ of Conservative planning reform in England’ by Edward Shepherd, Andy Inch, John Sturzaker, and Tim Marshall. When asked to describe the paper and highlight its importance, the authors stated the following: Planning for housing development in England has long been politically divisive. New housing can be met with significant local opposition by communities concerned about ..read more

This blog is being published in order to highlight the issues journals and publishers are facing from fraudulent/copied/hijacked sites. Wikipedia describes journal hijacking as “the brandjacking of a legitimate academic journal by a malicious third party. Typically, the imposter journal sets up a fraudulent website for the purpose of offering scholars the opportunity to rapidly publish their research online for a fee” (para. 1, 2023). We hope this post will provide clarity for the journal’s subscribers, readers and authors, and will be useful for other publishers. We also, as a mission driven ..read more

19 April 2024 is the bicentenary of Byron’s death in Greece during the War of Greek Independence. The event is marked by many new books, conferences, and a gracious commemorative service in Westminster Abbey where he was refused burial two hundred years ago. The London statue of him which was intended as a national monument now finds itself on a traffic island surrounded by busy traffic but plans have now been made and agreed to move it to a prominent place in Hyde Park. Byron has never slipped out of public view since, in his celebrated phrase, he awoke and found himself famous on 3 March ..read more

As part of our 125th anniversary, we are celebrating authors who published their first work with LUP and have gone on to have successful writing careers. Here is Alison Welsby, Editorial Director at LUP, in conversation with the acclaimed and award-winning crime fiction writer, Ann Cleeves, whose first published work was a chapter in LUP’s 1982 publication, Hilbre, The Cheshire Island: Its History and Natural History, edited by J. D. Craggs. Alison: Thank you so much Ann for taking the time to talk to me today. Your first published work was a chapter about living on Hilbre, three small islands ..read more

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies Volume 100 Issue 10 is a Special Issue commemorating 100 years of the journal and the legacy of Edgar Allison Peers, the journal’s founder and one of the most influential figures in UK Hispanism. Anthony Cond, CEO of Liverpool University Press looks back on the beginning of the journal and the evolution of the Press from Peers’ time to the present. The period in which E. Allison Peers was planning what would become the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies was one of flux at the journal’s publisher, Liverpool University Press. At that time, the Secretary of the P ..read more

The editors of Town Planning Review (TPR) have selected the following paper as the Featured Article in TPR 95.1. This paper will be free to access for a limited time: The Abercrombie Lecture: ‘Spatial planning reimagined: rekindling the founding spirit for the future’ by Wei Yang. When asked to describe the paper and highlight its importance, the author stated the following: Exactly 80 years ago, Abercrombie’s most famous regional plan, the Greater London Plan 1944, was published. At that time, there was a strong belief in planning — it was considered a crucial positive force in postwar ..read more

National Indexing Day The Society of Indexers is celebrating National Indexing Day for the eighth successive year on Thursday 28th March 2024. National Indexing Day was established in March 2017 to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Society’s foundation. Since then, celebrations of indexing have taken place at live events, online and in the media, with indexers, authors and publishers joining enthusiastically to salute these ‘unsung heroes of the publishing world’, in Sam Leith’s words in The Guardian. This year, the festivities will take place at a half-day in-person workshop for publi ..read more