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{{Short description|Academic publisher at Indiana University}}
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| country = United States
| headquarters = [[Bloomington, Indiana]]
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'''Indiana University Press''', also known as '''IU Press''', is an [[academic publishing|academic publisher]] founded in 1950 at [[Indiana University]] that specializes in the [[humanities]] and [[social sciences]]. Its headquarters are located in [[Bloomington, Indiana]]. IU Press publishes approximately 100 new [[book]]s annually, in addition to 38 [[academic journal]]s, and maintains a current catalog comprising some 2,000 titles.<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Indiana University]]|url=https://iupress.org/about-iu-press/|title=About IU Press|access-date=January 5, 2023}}</ref>

Indiana University Press primarily publishes in the following areas: [[African studies|African]], [[African American studies|African American]], [[Asian studies|Asian]], [[cultural studies|cultural]], [[Jewish studies|Jewish]], [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]], [[Middle Eastern studies]], [[Russian studies|Russian]] and [[Eastern Europe]]an, and [[women's studies|women's]] and [[gender studies|gender]] studies; [[anthropology]], [[film studies]], [[folklore]], [[history]], [[bioethics]], [[music]], [[paleontology]], [[philanthropy]], [[philosophy]], and [[religion]]. IU Press undertakes extensive regional publishing under its Quarry Books imprint.

== History ==

IU Press began in 1950 as part of Indiana University's post-war growth under President [[Herman B Wells]]. Bernard Perry, son of Harvard philosophy professor [[Ralph Barton Perry]], served as the first director. IU Press's first book was a translation of Edouard de Montulé's ''Travels in America, 1816–1817'', published in March 1951. A total of six books were published the first year.<ref name="IUat60">{{cite web|title=IU Press turns 60|url=http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/13386.html|website=IU News Room|publisher=Indiana University|access-date=February 20, 2018}}</ref>

In 1952, IU Press earned full membership with the [[Association of American University Presses]] (now known as the "Association of University Presses"). During its first decade in operation, IU Press published more than 200 books. That same decade, in 1955, it published [[Rolfe Humphries]]'s translation of the ''Metamorphoses'' of Ovid, IU Press's all-time bestseller, having sold more than 500,000 copies to date.<ref name="IUat60" />

Bernard Perry retired as director in 1976 and was replaced by John Gallman who focused on the academic strengths of Indiana University. The IU Press Journals Division, launched in 1987 with three journals, now carries 38 in its 2023 portfolio. By the end of John Gallman's tenure as director in 2000, IU Press published 150 books annually and in 2022, the press maintains an annual output of approximately 100–120 scholarly books per year.

In 2004 IU Press launched '''Quarry Books''', an imprint dedicated to regional topics. It launched '''Red Lighting Books,''' another imprint, that focuses on food and drink, lifestyle, travel, sports, the Midwest, and true crime.

== Honors and awards ==

In 1965, IU Press received the Centennial Medal, the highest prize of the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, for its role in preserving Civil War history. IU Press's 1967 translation of volume 1 of Kierkegaard's ''Journals and Papers'' won a [[National Book Award]]. It was followed by a second National Book Award in 1970 for a translation of Bertolt Brecht's ''Saint Joan of the Stockyards''.<ref name="IUat60" /> In 2009 Indiana University Press publication ''The [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]] [[Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945]]'', Volume I was selected as the winner of the 2009 [[National Jewish Book Award]] in the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] category.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news-archive/13128.html|title=IU Press encyclopedia wins a 2009 National Jewish Book Award: IU News Room: Indiana University|website=newsinfo.iu.edu|access-date=March 19, 2018}}</ref>

In a ranking of scholarly publishers in political science, IUP ranked 28th among all scholarly publishers by respondent preferences for publishers whose books they read or rely upon for the best research in political science.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Garand and Giles|first1=James C. and Michael W.|title=Ranking Scholarly Publishers in Political Science: An Alternative Approach|journal=PS: Political Science and Politics|date=April 2011|volume=44|issue=2|page=6|url=http://www.jkarp.com/f2011/Garand_2011.pdf|access-date=February 22, 2018}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Literature|Indiana}}
* [[List of English-language book publishing companies]]
* [[List of university presses]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website}}
* [https://www.jstor.org/publisher/iupress IU Press Journals on JSTOR]

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Ajay Kumar at 18:50, 17 August 2023