upon a single source . relevant discussion may be found on the talk page . please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources . december 2013 nus press parent company national university of singapore founded 1971 country of origin singapore headquarters location singapore distribution worldwide key people peter schoppert official website nuspress.nus.edu.sg nus press is the academic press of the national university of singapore . it is organized as a private limited company that is 100 % owned by the university . contents 1 history 2 mission 3 main subject areas 4 book series 5 journals 6 references 7 external links history edit prior to the independence of singapore in 1965 the university of malaya in singapore founded 1949 published books under the imprint of the university of malaya press . when the two divisions of the university of malaya separated to become two universities steps were taken to establish separate university presses . thus the singapore university press was formally established in 1971 . in 2002 then nus president professor shih choon fong approved a new investment plan for the university press a plan which would allow for a modest expansion of the singapore university press output . this would require that the press focus its efforts on asia related social science and humanities with concentrations on singapore southeast asia and east asia . subsequently singapore university press was succeeded by a new nus press in 2006 reflecting the name of its parent institution and to align the press closer to the university s overall branding . mission edit the mission of the nus press is to enable the dissemination and creation of knowledge through the publishing of scholarly and academic books ; and to empower learning innovation and enterprise for the singapore and asia focused global community as a publisher of authoritative works for the trade and professional markets . 1 main subject areas edit anthropology archaeology architecture and building business economics geography history language learning literature & linguistics medicine & life sciences memoirs politics and international relations religion sociology visual arts & visual culture book series edit asian studies association of australia asaa southeast asian publications series kyoto cseas series on asian studies challenges of agrarian transition in southeast asia history of medicine in southeast asia irasec studies of contemporary southeast asia studies in asian security journals edit asian bioethics review china an international journal the journal of burma studies the heritage journal references edit national university of singapore . nus.edu.sg . 2008 12 18 . retrieved 2012 08 16 . external links edit nus press v t e national university of singapore presidents shih choon fong tan chorh chuan schools arts and social sciences business computing law medicine music public policy duke nus graduate medical school yale nus college facilities adam park guild house centre for international law centre for quantum technologies energy studies institute german institute of science and technology graphene research centre national university cancer institute national university hospital national university health system nus high school of math and science nus museum temasek life sciences laboratory organizations faith and globalisation initiative faith and globalisation network of universities national university of singapore muslim society nus press singapore delft water alliance singapore mit alliance media asian journal of public affairs journal of southeast asian studies related institute of policy studies list of national university of singapore people national university of singapore university professor nanyang university nussu rag and flag retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nus press & oldid 714176106 categories national university of singaporeuniversity presses of singaporebook publishing companies of singaporepublishing companies established in 1971hidden categories articles needing additional references from december 2013all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 april 2016 at 03 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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