Edinburgh University Press Joins ScienceOpen

We’re pleased to announce our new partnership with ScienceOpen, joining a research and discovery network that is continuously growing with new publications and collections from different publishers around the world.

You can browse our Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies collection, packed full of cutting-edge research spanning art and architecture, history, linguistics and literature, politics and religion.

About ScienceOpen

ScienceOpen is an interactive discovery platform for scholarly research across all disciplines. From smart, multidimensional search to research collections, open peer review, lay summaries and more, it offers a full spectrum of options to effectively find and share research results. The platform expands the ways in which users can interact with Edinburgh University Press’ content, by allowing researchers and users to recommend highlighted research, create collections, write peer reviews, and easily share publications to different social media channels directly from our website.

The Edinburgh University Press Collection

Edinburgh University Press's scholarship in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies includes art and architecture, history, language and linguistics, literature, politics, and religion. EUP publishes journals, research monographs, reference works, textbooks and cutting-edge series in a variety of subject areas, reaching an international audience.

Nicola Ramsey, Chief Executive Officer at Edinburgh University Press said, ‘We are delighted to launch our first collection on ScienceOpen, bringing together our Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies content across our book and journal programmes into one, combined collection of over 370 books and 1,000 journal articles. Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies is one of our flagship publishing areas and showcasing journal and book content in a single collection will provide a rich user-experience.’

Stuart Cooper, Global Business Development Manager at ScienceOpen said, ‘ScienceOpen is excited to be collaborating with EUP on this great new topical collection focused on their Journals and Books of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. This collection will complement other collections on our network by adding more prestigious content in Islamic Studies, religious figures and texts, history, and Arabic language.’

The Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies collection on ScienceOpen already includes over 1000 articles and books, and it will continue to develop with fresh pioneering research and insights from various areas of research. Follow the collection to stay up to date on the latest additions, and take a glimpse at its content by exploring some of the featured titles:

• British Muslim Women in the Cultural and Creative Industries by Saskia Warren 
• Journal of Qur'anic Studies 
• Gendering Civil War by Mireille Rebeiz 
• Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies 
• Political Thought in the Mamluk Period by Mohamad El-Merheb