Parent company | Ohio University |
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Founded | 1947 |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Athens, Ohio |
Distribution |
Chicago Distribution Center (US) Combined Academic Publishers (EMEA, Asia, the Pacific) Scholarly Book Services (Canada) |
Publication types | Books |
Imprints | Swallow Press |
Official website | www |
Ohio University Press (OUP), founded in 1947, is the largest scholarly press in the state of Ohio. It is a department of Ohio University that publishes under its own name and the imprint Swallow Press. The press publishes 50 books annually and has a back catalog of over 1,200 titles. Ohio University Press entered into a licensing agreement with Swallow Press in 1979, eventually acquiring the imprint and its back catalog of 276 titles in 2008. The Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, named for the former Ohio University faculty member and poet, is awarded annually by Ohio University Press.