UCL Press exceeds three million book downloads

UCL Press, the UK's first fully Open Access University Press, has announced that there have been more than three million downloads globally of its books and journals. The announcement comes ahead of the publishers' five-year anniversary in May. Since launching in 2015, UCL Press has published over 140 academic books, and these include monographs, edited collections and textbooks. Download have taken place in 243 countries and territories, reaching readers in countries as far afield as Iraq and Benin. The most popular title in the UCL Press list continues to be How the World Changed Social Media by Professor of Anthropology Daniel Miller  and a collective of eight other esteemed global anthropologists. The title has been downloaded over 400,000 times since it was published in March 2016 and has been translated into four languages. Other popular titles include Brexit and Beyond , edited by Dr Benjamin Martill and Dr Uta Staiger from the UCL European Institute, which has been downloaded more than 100,000 times, and the Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery , by UCL and Royal Free London academics and practitioners, which has been downloaded 80,000 times in 194 territories, including India, China and Iraq.