{"id":5710,"date":"2025-11-14T07:50:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/?p=5710"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:10:08","slug":"across-the-globe-clemson-ups-partnership-with-liverpool-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/2025\/11\/14\/across-the-globe-clemson-ups-partnership-with-liverpool-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Across the Globe: Clemson UP\u2019s Partnership with Liverpool UP"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final installment of the UP Week Blog Tour<\/a> asks \u201cWHERE does your press Team UP?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

For this post, staff at Liverpool University Press and Clemson University Press teamed UP to offer insights into our international partnership.<\/p>\n

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How do Liverpool and Clemson work together to support scholars and publish world-class scholarship? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Liverpool University Press and Clemson University Press are proud to partner to help scholars share their work with the world. Since 2014, this transatlantic collaboration has combined Clemson\u2019s editorial expertise with Liverpool\u2019s production, marketing, and global distribution strengths.<\/p>\n

Every Clemson title goes through rigorous peer review and editorial oversight, ensuring the highest academic standards, while Liverpool\u2019s international reach helps authors connect with readers worldwide.<\/p>\n

This partnership is about bringing scholarship to a global audience and supporting authors every step of the way. Together, we\u2019re helping world-class research reach readers everywhere. Clemson University Press has\u00a0rapidly expanded in recent years to become an award-winning academic publisher, adding approximately twenty-five books and journal issues per annum to its strong backlist of more than a hundred titles.<\/p>\n

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How did this strategic partnership come into being?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Liverpool University Press\u2019s strategic partnership with Clemson University Press started in 2014, inspired by the successful collaboration<\/a> between the UK\u2019s Boydell & Brewer and the US\u2019s University of Rochester to form the University of Rochester Press. Liverpool was interested in exploring a similar transatlantic model that could amplify the work of a growing university press. At the time, Clemson had a strong editorial vision, with a limited number of publications mostly focused on literary modernism. Liverpool, on the other hand, had recently experienced rapid growth and had the know-how to expand reach. Bringing the two together allowed us to combine editorial excellence with publishing scale, supporting the development of Clemson University Press into the press it is today.<\/p>\n

How does each press benefit from this unique relationship?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our partnership is a mutually beneficial one, with each press bringing complementary strengths to the table.<\/p>\n

Clemson contributes exceptional editorial expertise, particularly in areas like literary modernism, cultural studies, and music. Working with Liverpool University Press allows their scholarship to reach a global audience, thanks to Liverpool\u2019s production, marketing, sales, and distribution.<\/p>\n

For Liverpool, the partnership has brought the opportunity to move into new areas, including Clemson\u2019s outstanding modernism list. It also gives Liverpool fuller insight into the challenges and opportunities facing scholarly publishing in the US.<\/p>\n

As former Clemson UP director John Morgenstern notes, \u201cevery stage of the book\u2019s publication necessitates some level of collaboration between the partners\u201d (Morgenstern and Whitaker, 2021, p. 38). This really captures how closely we work together, to combine editorial excellence with publishing expertise, creating a model where both presses thrive while supporting scholarship and helping it reach readers around the world.<\/p>\n

Alison Mero<\/strong>, Director of Clemson University Press, stated: \u201cClemson\u2019s partnership with Liverpool has been essential to our growth over the past eleven years. We look forward to many more years of \u2018Teaming UP\u2019 with our publishing colleagues across the pond!\u201d<\/p>\n

Anthony Cond<\/strong>, Chief Executive at Liverpool University Press, commented: \u201cLiverpool University Press has been delighted to \u2018TeamUP\u2019 with Clemson University Press for more than a decade to increase and amplify the high-quality scholarship in Clemson\u2019s lists through a distinctive \u2013 and enjoyable \u2013 partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sources<\/span><\/p>\n

John D. Morgenstern & Theresa Whitaker (2021), \u201cInternational Publishing Partnerships,\u201d The Serials Librarian<\/em>, 80:1-4, 35-40, DOI: 10.1080\/0361526X.2021.1877078<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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