Founded in 1893, University of California Press is one of the largest and most adventurous scholarly publishers in the nation. Among our university press peers, we are the only one associated with a multi-campus public university and the only one west of the Mississippi.

The nonprofit publishing arm of the University of California system, UC Press attracts manuscripts from the world's foremost scholars, writers, artists, and public intellectuals. About one-third of our authors are affiliated with the University of California. Each year we publish approximately 180 new books and 54 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences and keep about 3,500 book titles in print.

UC Press revenues come primarily from sales of our books and journals, while University subsidy accounts for a small and shrinking percentage. Generous philanthropic gifts from individuals and organizations allow us to support the University's mandate of teaching, research, and public service for readers worldwide.

A Skeptic Among Scholars: August Frugé on University Publishing A first-person account of how UC Press was transformed from a small department of the printing division to one of the most distinguished university presses in the country.	The University of California Press: The Early Years, 1893–1953 Chronicles the early history of the Press, from its beginnings as a printer of monographs by the University's own faculty to its emergence in the early 1950s as a full-fledged university press.