Leiden University Press

‘We are committed to providing readers with books that offer reliable expertise, inspire and encourage informed debate.’

Leiden University Press brings scholarly knowledge to a global community of scholars and students. In keeping with Leiden University’s commitment to develop, disseminate and apply academic knowledge, we support first-class scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and law whilst maintaining high editorial and design standards.

Leiden University Press focuses on several subject areas: Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, History (Global, Military, Environmental), Asian Studies, Environmental Studies, Literary Studies, Language, Media Studies, Security Studies. More information for authors> 

LUP Digital

At Leiden University Press, we publish our books in print and digitally. Some of our publications are accessible via Open Access, as we see Open Access as an opportunity to enhance the dissemination of academic research. More information about Open Access publishing »

Editorial Advisory Board

• Prof.dr. J.S. (Judith) Pollmann (chair)
• Prof. dr. I.G.B.M. (Isabelle) Duijvesteijn
• Dr. J.H. (Jeanine) de Roy van Zuijdewijn
• Dr. R.J.E.H. (Rogier) Creemers
• Dr. C.E. (Carel) Smith
• Prof. dr. G.A. (Gerard) Wiegers
• Prof. dr. B. (Ben) Schoenmaker
• Prof. dr. G.J. (Gijsbert) Rutten
• Prof. dr. D. (Diana) Suhardiman

Why choose Leiden University Press?

Leiden University Press is a choice for academic quality and worldwide distribution. LUP’s goal is to support and stimulate scholarship through academic publications. Therefore, the quality of the content of the publications is most important. Book proposals and manuscripts are evaluated by scholarly standards, editorial board, and external peer review.

The press is active worldwide. Leiden University Press has a marketing and distribution network that reaches the entire international academic market through its partners Amsterdam University Press, Baker & Taylor in the USA, Wiley in the rest of the world.  Read what others say about Leiden University Press>

Submitting a proposal

We look forward to receiving your proposal or manuscript! Please use this form to present your publication proposal to our board.  You can contact: Saskia Gieling, managing publisher via: s.m.gieling@library.leidenuniv.nl to submit your proposal or if you have any questions regarding the evaluation process.

We will offer you a publishing contract if your proposal has been accepted. Still, the publication of your book is conditional upon a positive peer review of your manuscript. Leiden University Press will not publish your manuscript if the peer reviews are negative. This decision cannot be contested. You can find detailed information about our publication process here>

Please use this style sheet with editorial and bibliographical instructions when preparing your manuscript.

A detailed evaluation by two experts is an essential part of the publishing process at Leiden University Press. Our peer review, in general, is double-blinded unless the reviewer wishes to share his identity with the author. The process follows the Best Practices for Peer Review of the Association of University Presses.

Submitted book projects generally undergo three rounds of peer review, a first one of the proposal, a second one of the first draft of the manuscript, and a third of the revised version after peer review.

We ask authors to write a response to the reviews of the first draft of the manuscript, a revision plan and a timeline. The respective editorial board of a series will evaluate the revision plan. Finally, the board will assess the revised version while considering the approved revision plan and the reviews.

Leiden University Press is a supporter of Open Access publishing. As a university press, we are part of the academic environment, and we see Open Access as an opportunity to enhance the dissemination of academic research. LUP complies with the open access requirements of OA funders, such as the European Research Council, the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Wellcome, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Authors retain copyright and can fulfil the open access requirements of funders. The publication process of OA titles is identical to that of non-open access books. Each open access scholarly book receives the same editorial and publishing expertise, rigorous peer review and high-quality production process as non-open access books. Proposals receive the same rigorous peer review as non-open access books. OA titles will be available in print through LUP’s distribution partners.

More than 150 of our titles are in Open Access and freely accessible from:

• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
• OAPEN Library
• Open Research Library (ORL) / Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
• Muse Open
• Leiden Repository 
• JSTOR OA 

Immediate Open Access

In principle, the fee for making a monograph or an edited volume directly available in Open Access is € 6950. The standard license is CC BY-NC-ND.

Self Archiving Policy

LUP also supports green Open Access. This version of Open Access enables authors to share or archive the author’s version of their publication in a repository. The author’s version is the manuscript after peer-review revisions and accepted for publication (compared to the printed version or the final proof).

You can find more information about Open Access publishing on the OAPEN website. The website offers a free-to-access resource that aims to help academic book authors to understand open access book publishing better: https://oabooks-toolkit.org/about-the-toolkit/15210909-welcome-to-the-toolkit

Please contact Saskia Gieling, managing publisher, s.m.gieling@library.leidenuniv.nl, if you have any questions about OA-publishing at LUP.

Contact us

In case you have a question or a remark, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.

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Telephone: +31 20 420 00 50

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For editorial questions, questions on rights & permissions and general questions: info@lup.nl

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For information on publishing: Managing Editor Saskia Gieling, s.m.gieling@library.leidenuniv.nl

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