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Effective July 1, 2024, the University of Cincinnati pulled all funding for its scholarly imprint. Since its founding in 2017, the mission of the University of Cincinnati press has always been to publish peer review books on social justice and regional studies under the director of a faculty advisory board. The director and a small staff of students are still available to support the final publishing list through June 30, 2025. On July 1, 2025, all scholarly books, and books on the university will be distributed through University of Minnesota Press. Regional books including forthcoming books in the Thinking About Ohio Series, will be managed and published by Ohio University Press. All open access books can be found on [insert new Manifold destination]

In 2018, the press created a second imprint, CLIPS (Cincinnati Library Publishing Services) to serve the university and Lead the Open Agenda. The University of Cincinnati Library will continue to offer Library Publishing Services for UC faculty authors of open access books, open educational resources, open journals, and open content. For information on how to publish open educational resources and open journals, please contact director, Elizabeth.Scarpelli@uc.edu. Dean and University Librarian Liz Kiscaden said, “closure of the Press does not diminish its success or impact in innovative scholarly and regional book publishing.”

During the 8 years that the university press operated under its director, Elizabeth Scarpelli it trained over 30 student workers in scholarly and trade publishing, many of whom went on to careers in publishing. The press produced 48 publications annually. Over the years the press won 9 awards for its books, published 8 journals, 10 open educational resources saving students $500,000 annually, and created the Service-Learning and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies Pathway which led to the launch of the Journal for the Study for Cooperative and Experiential Education in 2025. “Aligned with the mission of the university, the press stretched the boundaries of publishing in ways that bridged the distance between the author and the reader and created printo and digitally innovative groundbreaking, entrepreneurial, dynamic works and set the pace for publishers with small budgets and limited resources.” said Elizabeth Scarpelli, director of the University of Cincinnati Press and Cincinnati Library Publishing Services.