Edinburgh University Press is a forward-looking, independent university press and the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the world.

Founded over fifty years ago, the Press became a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Edinburgh in 1992. Books and journals published by the Press bear the imprimatur of one of Britain's oldest and most distinguished centres of learning and enjoy the highest academic standards through the scholarly appraisal of the Press Committee. The Press has a reputation for publishing books and journals of an enviably high quality in content and production in the humanities and social sciences.