Palgrave Macmillan publishes award-winning, peer-reviewed research for academics, professionals, and librarians.
Across the humanities, social sciences, and business, we publish around 2,000 books each year and over 40 journals.
Palgrave Macmillan publishes books and contributed volumes in different formats across the humanities, social sciences, and business. The various publication formats vary in length, range, and depth.
All Palgrave Macmillan books benefit from expert editorial support and are subject to rigorous peer review. You can choose the format and scope that best align with your research objectives and desired impact.
When you publish with Palgrave Macmillan, you'll benefit from a supportive editorial experience and global marketing and distribution, to enable your work to achieve its full potential.
You can choose to publish your academic book or chapter open access, making it freely available to anyone with internet access.
Open access allows unrestricted online access to your eBook with no reading or subscription fees. Authors retain copyright and are able to comply with funders' open access mandates.
Open access books or chapters receive the same editorial and publishing expertise, thorough peer review, and production process as non-open access books, but they enjoy greater visibility and reach.
Our open access books and chapters receive on average 10 times more downloads, 2.4 times more citations, and 10 times more online mentions compared to non-open access books. Open access books can have a more geographically diverse readership, reaching 61% more countries on average than non-open access books. 1
Learn more about publishing an open access book or chapter.
Palgrave Macmillan’s peer-reviewed monographs are known for exploring evolving, and cutting-edge research areas such as cybersecurity, mathematical finance, agricultural economics, environmental humanities, sustainability, and artificial intelligence. Monographs can also be published as part of Palgrave Macmillan’s established and award-winning book series, for example, The New Middle Ages and International Political Economy.
Authors from across the humanities, social sciences, and business publish monographs with Palgrave Macmillan. Publishing partners include the Academy of International Business, the International Economics Association, and others.
You can find all Palgrave Macmillan monographs on Springer Nature Link, the reading platform of choice for hundreds of thousands of researchers worldwide.
Palgrave Macmillan Major Reference Works are authoritative and comprehensive overviews of substantial breadth and depth on a central topic from the humanities, social sciences, or business. As tertiary literature, they offer reliable summaries and guide readers to established scholarship.
At Palgrave Macmillan, Major Reference Works are published using an online-first Living Reference Model, which means they are continuously updated through a dynamic, peer-reviewed publishing process.
Some of Palgrave Macmillan’s best-known Major Reference Works include The Statesman’s Yearbook (published annually since 1864) and The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics which has published 36 Nobel laureates.
Palgrave Handbooks are original reference works that bring together specially-commissioned chapters, cutting-edge research, and the latest review articles in their fields. They provide an unparalleled overview of a specific field of research, while also setting the agenda for future directions of the discipline.
Palgrave Macmillan’s professional business and professional finance books feature authoritative and accessible texts for business and finance professionals, from graduate employees to chief executives and managing directors.
Palgrave Pivot combines speed with quality, offering authors a concise format of 25,000–50,000 words; longer than an article but shorter than a monograph. This unique length and our rapid, flexible publishing process make Palgrave Pivot the go-to choice for research in emerging areas and on timely, topical issues.
Since its launch, Palgrave Pivot has published groundbreaking work on urgent topics such as the global financial crisis, Brexit, and COVID-19, as well as pioneering research in digital humanities, climate change policy, and gender studies.
By reducing time to publication without compromising editorial standards, Palgrave Pivot helps your work make an impact when it matters most. Its accessible length also broadens reach beyond academia, engaging practitioner and policy audiences alongside scholarly readers.
Palgrave publishes textbooks for students at all levels of study, from first-year undergraduate to postgraduate and beyond.
Palgrave Textbooks are accessibly written, rigorously reviewed books aimed at students taking a variety of courses across the social sciences, humanities, business, economics, finance, politics, and international studies. They provide vital, up-to-date content for students and researchers to enhance understanding and encourage thoughtful learning.
Palgrave Macmillan’s book series foster in-depth and impactful scholarly dialogue. When you publish your work in a Palgrave Macmillan series alongside related research, it benefits from engaged and relevant readership.
These established series lend their publications credibility and recognition for their authority and relevance. Authors receive expert input, as well as dedicated promotion, to maximise the visibility and reach of their work.
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