
University Press Week 2021 Blog Tour : A #KeepUp Top Ten List


1. The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama by Claude A. Clegg III

The first comprehensive history of the Obama administration, and its impact and legacy among Black Americans. Clegg contextualizes how America’s first Black president lead to his foil in Donald Trump.

Journal of Democracy is an influential international forum that provides scholarly analysis as well as critical discussions concerning the theory and practice of democracy. Its articles have been widely reprinted in many languages and cited in news outlets around the globe. Focusing exclusively on democracy, the Journal monitors and analyzes democratic regimes and movements around the world. Each new issue of the Journal is made open access for a month at the time of its publication, ensuring readers worldwide have unfettered access to its critical content.


Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (JHCPU) is a peer-reviewed journal that has published research focusing on contemporary health care issues of medically underserved communities since 1990. JHCPU was early to report on the racial and socioeconomic disparities of the Covid-19 pandemic, and has continued putting out critical studies on the disease. Covid-19 related research from JHPCU has been cited in stories in Esquire, NBC News, People Magazine, and Rolling Stone.

Project MUSE is a trusted provider of authoritative humanities and social science books and journals from more than 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. With a global list of 115 University Presses, 844 scholarly journals and over 80,000 books on the Project MUSE platform, we are thrilled to celebrate University Press Week!


After a series of horrifying school shootings, Project MUSE moved quickly to open up access to scholarly, peer reviewed content on the MUSE platform pertaining to gun violence. The generous and immediate response from our publishers resulted in content made free for a month, and some research becoming permanently Open Access. Since then, we’ve created an entire series of curated resources, “MUSE in Focus” curating content from participating publishers across Project MUSE’s broad corpus, designed to contribute interdisciplinary, scholarly context to current events and issues, including climate change, digital humanities, the 19th Amendment, structural racism and the pandemic.


The official journal of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA), Modernism/Modernity is an interdisciplinary quarterly publication that focuses on the methodological, archival, and theoretical approaches particular to modernist studies. In 2016 the journal conceived, designed, and launched Print Plus, an open, digital publication platform that provides peer-reviewed, online academic environment for multimedia argument-based research. The Print Plus platform is an award-winning example of forward-thinking design and content dissemination of academic scholarship.

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