{{Short description|Publishing unit of the University of Toronto}} {{Infobox publisher | image = UofT Press logo.webp | parent = University of Toronto | status = | founded = {{start date and age|1901}} | founder = | successor = | country = Canada | distribution = Worldwide | headquarters = 800 Bay Street<br />Toronto, Ontario | keypeople = | publications = Scholarly books and journals | topics = | revenue = | numemployees = | nasdaq = | url = [https://utorontopress.com utorontopress.com] }} '''University of Toronto Press''' ('''UTP''') is a Canadian university press operated by the University of Toronto.<ref>{{Cite book|editor-last1=Pound|editor-first1=Richard W.|title=The Fitzhenry and Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates|date=2005|publisher=Fitzhenry & Whiteside|isbn=1-55041-171-3|edition=3d|oclc=52540711|page=337}}</ref> Although it was founded in 1901, the press did not actually publish any books until 1911.{{sfn|Harman|1961|p=19}} It is the oldest and largest university press in Canada and one of the largest in North America.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Parker |first1=George L. |title=University Presses |url=https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/university-presses |website=The Canadian Encyclopedia |date=December 16, 2013}}</ref> Its distribution division has locations in both Toronto and Buffalo, New York.
==History== thumb|150px|The former UTP logo The press originally printed only examination books and the university calendar.{{Sfn|Jeanneret|1989|p=22}} Its first scholarly book was a work by a classics professor at University College, Toronto.{{Sfn|Jeanneret|1989|p=22}} The press took control of the university bookstore in 1933.{{Sfn|Jeanneret|1989|p=22}} It employed a novel typesetting method to print issues of the ''Canadian Journal of Mathematics'', founded in 1949.{{Sfn|Jeanneret|1989|p=28}}
The press has always had close ties with University of Toronto Libraries. The press was partially located in the library from 1910-1920. The University Librarian Hugh Hornby Langton, the lead librarian of the University of Toronto Libraries, served as the first general editor of the University of Toronto Press.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barc |first=Agath |last2=Carliner |first2=Jesse |last3=Sommers |first3=Emily |last4=Wall |first4=Margaret |title=Scholarly Publishing |url=https://exhibits.library.utoronto.ca/exhibits/show/utl125/public-services/scholarly-publishing |access-date=2023-08-03 |website=University of Toronto Exhibits}}</ref>
Sidney Earle Smith, president of the University of Toronto in the late 1940s and 1950s, instituted a new governance arrangement for the press modelled on the governing structure of the university as a whole (on the standard Canadian university governance model defined by the Flavelle commission). Henceforth, the press's business affairs and editorial decision-making would be governed by separate committees, the latter by academic faculty.{{Sfn|Jeanneret|1989|p=31}} A committee composed of Vincent Bladen, George Williams Brown (general editor of the press from 1951{{Sfn|Jeanneret|1989|p=37}}), and A. S. P. Woodhouse studied the publishing policies of American university presses to inform the structure of the press's publishing division.{{Sfn|Jeanneret|1989|p=31}}
Beginning in 1971, the press printed its books simultaneously on paper and microfiche.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Montagnes|first=Ian|date=1972|title=Scholarly Monographs on Microfiche: The University of Toronto Press as a Case in Point|url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/mfir.1972.1.1.29/html|journal=Microform & Imaging Review|volume=1|issue=1|doi=10.1515/mfir.1972.1.1.29|s2cid=162232860 |issn=0949-5770|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
The press is currently a member of the Association of University Presses.<ref name="AUP Membership">{{cite web |title=Our Members |url=https://aupresses.org/membership/membership-list/ |access-date=January 30, 2023 |publisher=Association of University Presses}}</ref>
==Divisions== University of Toronto Press consists of three divisions.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://utorontopress.com/about-us/ |website=University of Toronto Press |access-date=November 15, 2025}}</ref> They are: * The publishing division, its most notable * The distribution division, which includes its educational resources department * The retail division, which operates the University of Toronto Bookstore with four locations: ** St. George Bookstore (Koffler Student Centre, Toronto) ** Mississauga Bookstore (William G. Davis Building, Mississauga) ** Scarborough Bookstore (Bladen Wing, Scarborough) ** Faculty of Law Bookstore (Jackman Law Building, Toronto)
==See also== * ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography'' * University of Toronto Press Publications
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== Sources == * {{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/universityaspubl0000harm|title=The University as Publisher|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=1961|isbn=978-1-4426-1519-9|editor-last=Harman|editor-first=Eleanor|language=en|jstor=10.3138/j.ctt1vxmbd1|oclc=1151834758|url-access=registration}} * {{Cite book|last=Jeanneret|first=Marsh|url=https://archive.org/details/godmammonunivers0000jean|title=God and Mammon: Universities as Publishers|publisher=Macmillan of Canada|year=1989|isbn=0-7715-9205-1|oclc=20525803|url-access=registration}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{Official website}} * {{Cite book|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/|title=Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada |publisher=University of Toronto Press}}
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