Michigan State University Press (MSUP) has selected Liverpool Distribution Services (LDS) as its exclusive distribution partner for the UK and Europe, and non-exclusive partner for the rest of the world outside of the Americas. MSUP joins University of Michigan Press and University of Georgia Press in benefitting from a genuine sense of transatlantic university press partnership through the boutique sales, marketing and distribution service that LDS offers.

Liverpool Distribution Services sits alongside the well-established Liverpool Subscription Services, which provides journals subscriptions management for a range of university presses and mission-based publishers.

MSUP Director, Elizabeth Demers, said: “We are absolutely delighted to partner with Liverpool University Press for distribution in the UK and Europe. Not only are Anthony Cond and his team doing some of the most exciting work we’ve seen in university press publishing, their commitment to scholarly excellence, open access publishing, and creativity complement our values and vision for the future.”

LUP Chief Executive, Anthony Cond, added: “Building upon decades of outstanding publishing, MSUP has begun a new ambitious chapter under the energetic leadership of Elizabeth Demers.We look forward to amplifying the Press’s books internationally and to working closely with our MSUP colleagues to foster a true sense of partnership”

The new agreement commences Monday 14^th April, and orders will be supplied by LUP’s fulfilment partner, Wiley Distribution.

For further information please contact:

Jennie Collinson j.collinson@liverpool.ac.uk

Elizabeth Demers sherbur1@msu.edu

About Michigan State University Press

Michigan State University Press is the scholarly publishing arm of historic Michigan State University (1855), the nation’s pioneer land-grant university and the prototype for the institutions established under the Morrill Act of 1862. Although a formal Press was not established at MSU until the mid-20th century, scholarly publishing was an important part of the institution’s mission from early on; significant and influential technical publications were regularly issued from the colleges as early as the mid-1870s. Since its founding in 1947, the mission of the Michigan State University Press has been to be a catalyst for positive intellectual, social, and technological change through the publication of research and intellectual inquiry, making significant contributions to scholarship in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

About Liverpool University Press

Founded in 1899 and rapidly expanding over the past two decades, Liverpool University Press has been described as ‘one of the great success stories in the difficult climate of modern academic publishing.’ LUP publishes around 200 books a year, 50 journals, and more than a dozen digital collections.