| Founded | 1999 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Jeffrey R. Young |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Boca Raton, Florida |
| Key people | Jeff Young, Publisher; Shereen Siddiqui, Artistic Director; Christie Mayer, Production Editor |
| Publication types | Books, academic journals, conference proceedings |
| Imprints | Universal-Publishers, Dissertation.com, BrownWalker Press |
| Official website | www.universal-publishers.com |
Universal Publishers, Inc. (Universal-Publishers.com) is the parent publishing company of three non-fiction book imprints specializing in textbook and academic titles (Universal-Publishers, BrownWalker Press & Dissertation.com). It originally began in 1997 as "Dissertation.com," one of the first companies to use print on-demand and PDF (Portable Document Format) e-book technologies to publish academic theses and Ph.D. dissertations for sale online. [1][2] The company was founded by Jeffrey R. Young, Ph.D., while he was in graduate school as a way to make academic dissertations widely available to other students and researchers at a reasonable price. [3]
The BrownWalker Press imprint was launched in 2001 to publish academic textbooks, scholarly monographs, and edited collections across a wide range of academic expertise. In 2010, BrownWalker Press added an academic conference proceeding publishing division (ConferencePaper™ Publisher), and in 2011, launched the ASMT International Journal of Afro-Asian Studies, the first of a series of open access, peer reviewed journals edited by Dr. Siddhartha Sarkar of the Asian School of Management and Technology.
Universal Publishers has over 1000 nonfiction and how-to titles currently available in print and electronically, and releases about 50 new titles each year. A small staff carefully selects the manuscripts to be published and gives personalized attention to each author. In addition to worldwide distribution through Ingram Content Group, it has an independent distribution relationship for some of its titles in India with Overseas Press, Ltd.