coupland street photographed in 1908 one of the buildings which have housed the press manchester university press is the university press of the university of manchester england and a publisher of academic books and journals . manchester university press has developed into an international publisher . it maintains its links with the university . contents 1 publishing 1.1 open access 2 history 3 references 4 external links publishing edit manchester university press publishes monographs and textbooks for academic teaching in higher education . it produces around 140 new books annually . it also publishes 6 journals . 1 areas of expertise are history politics and international law literature and theatre studies and visual culture . mup books are marketed and distributed by oxford university press in the united states and canada and in australia by footprint books all other global territories are covered from manchester itself . open access edit mup has been actively involved in open access publishing for several years . 2 it is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the knowledge unlatched pilot a global library consortium approach to funding open access books . 3 history edit mup was founded in 1904 as the publications committee of the university initially to publish academic research being undertaken at the victoria university of manchester . the office was accommodated in a house in lime grove . distribution was then in the hands of sherratt & hughes of manchester ; from 1913 the distributors were longmans green & co. though this arrangement came to an end in the 1930s . mup was founded by james tait . his successor was thomas tout and between them they were in charge for the first 20 years of the press s existence . h. m. mckechnie was secretary to the press from 1912 to 1949 . the mup offices moved several times to make way for other developments within the university . since 1951 these have been grove house oxford road 4 then the former dental hospital and thirdly the old medical school pictured above . references edit about manchester university press . manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk . manchester university press open access . manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk . good for publishers . knowledgeunlatched.org . charlton h. b. 1951 portrait of a university . manchester u. p. ; pp. 94 95 169 . external links edit official website v t e the university of manchester faculties and schools engineering and physical sciences chemical engineering and analytical sciences chemistry computer science electrical and electronic engineering materials mathematics mechanical aerospace and civil engineering physics and astronomy humanities anthropology architecture business life sciences medical and human sciences medicine psychology research academic health science centre brooks world poverty institute centre for the advanced study of the arab world centre for integrative systems biology centre for new writing enterprise centre institute for science ethics and innovation institute of biotechnology institute of innovation research jodrell bank centre for astrophysics joule centre research computing services wolfson molecular imaging centre national graphene institute buildings current alan turing building arthur lewis building barnes wallis building faraday building grove house renold building sackville street building schuster laboratory stephen joseph studio stopford building whitworth hall former maths and social sciences building 1969 2010 mathematics tower manchester 1968 2005 facilities chancellors hotel & conference centre computing machine laboratory contact theatre firs botanical grounds godlee observatory jodrell bank observatory john rylands library manchester academy manchester aquatics centre manchester conference centre manchester museum tabley house umist linear system university of manchester library whitworth art gallery student life students union christie cup fuse fm halls of residence city whitworth park victoria park dalton ellis hall greygarth hall male hulme hall st. anselm hall male fallowfield ashburne hall owens park history university of manchester umist victoria university of manchester victoria university other academic dress manchester university press people associated with the university of manchester category commons retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title manchester university press & oldid 743205387 categories publishing companies established in 1904university of manchesterbook publishing companies of the united kingdombritish companies established in 19041904 establishments in england 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 deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 8 october 2016 at 13 49 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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