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Find out our latest news at ANU Press, including featured titles, recent publications, upcoming book launches, interviews, publication subsidies and prizes.
‘Realities and Future of Work’ Review
Date posted: 9 December 2020
Excerpt from Barbara Pocock’s review of David Peetz’s Realities and Future of Work Labour History • Number 119 • November 2020 The pandemic experience reveals what many workers know: formal... more
ANU Press’ record-breaking 2020
Date posted: 4 November 2020
Vindicating the need for open-access peer-reviewed resources, ANU Press has enjoyed a record-breaking year with over 4.1m downloads at the end of the third quarter. We’ve summarised some of the key... more
20,000 downloads for our first title published using Shorthand
Date posted: 4 November 2020
Fluid Matter(s) is the first ANU Press title published using Shorthand. The rich and evocative design has captured the attention of researchers across... more
Celebrating NAIDOC Week
Date posted: 4 November 2020
ANU is a world leader in the advancement of Indigenous scholarship, and enjoys a long-standing commitment to Indigenous reconciliation. Our collection includes over 50 titles dedicated to Indigenous... more
Book Launch: Communicating Science
Event date: 15 September 2020
The launch features five authors telling the story of their country: the USA, Pakistan, Australia, East Africa and Russia. The speakers were selected from the 108 authors who contributed to a book... more
ANU Press in the time of Covid-19
Date posted: 15 July 2020
James J. Fox The Australian National University Introduction Around the world, the need to access information during the COVID lockdown has enhanced the open-access movement. ANU Press is the... more
2020 CASS PhD Publishing Prize
Date posted: 13 February 2020
2020 Prize to assist with publication of a CASS PhD thesis The CASS Humanities & Creative Arts ANU Press Editorial Board is offering a prize valued at $3,000 for the best completed and passed... more
Book Launch: Everyday Revolutions
Event date: 26 November 2019
Professor Rae Frances, Dean of the College of Arts and Social Scienes, will launch Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s... more
Launch: Australian Journal of Biography and History, No. 2, 2019
Event date: 21 November 2019
The National Centre of Biography, at the ANU, in association with the Canberra and District Historical Society warmly invites you to celebrate the publication of the... more
Book Launch: Framing the Islands
Event date: 12 November 2019
Join us for the launch of Framing the Islands: Power and Diplomatic Agency in Pacific Regionalism by author Honorary Associate Professor Greg Fry. The... more