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North Broad Press

North Broad Press is a joint publishing project between Temple University Press and Temple University Libraries. We publish works of scholarship, both new and reissued, from the Temple University community. We primarily publish open educational resources with limited additional capacity to publish scholarly monographs, edited volumes, and digital scholarly projects. We consider other types of publications on a case-by-case basis. Everything North Broad Press publishes is open access and peer reviewed.

Any individual faculty, student, staff member, department, center, or college associated with Temple University is eligible to submit their own scholarly content to North Broad Press for possible publication. In addition, we accept proposals for publications from nonprofit external organizations and societies located in Philadelphia, as long as they are sponsored by a Temple faculty member. Our basic services are offered to our affiliates without charge, and we offer stipends to some Temple faculty members who author open textbooks with us. 

Pending further notice, North Broad Press will not be issuing a formal call for proposals for the upcoming year. However, we will review faculty-authored open textbook projects on a rolling case-by-case basis. Please contact Mary Rose Muccie and Alicia Pucci for more information on how to apply.

The core principles of North Broad Press are:

  • We believe that the Libraries and the Press are critical resources for publishing expertise on campus.
  • We believe that the unfettered flow of ideas, scholarship and knowledge is necessary to support learning, clinical practice, and research, and to stimulate creativity and the intellectual enterprise. 
  • We support Temple faculty, students, and staff by making their work available to audiences around the world via open access publishing.
  • We believe that the scholarly ecosystem works best when creators retain their copyrights. 
  • We believe in experimentation and innovation in academic publishing.
  • We work to decrease the cost of higher education and improve learning outcomes for students by publishing high quality open textbooks and other open educational resources.
  • We believe in the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and promote these values through our publications.
  • We commit to making our publications accessible to all who need to use them.
  • We believe place matters. Our publications reflect Temple University and the North Philadelphia community of which we are a part. 

Recent publications:


Publications in process:

  • Art Education | Tales of Woo and Woe (board game), by Renee Jackson
  • Computer and Information Sciences | Data Structures, by Andrew Rosen
  • Computer and Information Sciences | Ethics in Data Science: A Practical Introduction, by Abha Belorkar
  • Criminal Justice | Introduction to Criminal Justice, edited by E. Rely Vîlcică
  • Earth and Environmental Sciences | Physical Geology lab manual, by Natalie Flynn
  • Earth and Environmental Sciences | Geology of National Parks lab manual, by Natalie Flynn
  • Economics | Introduction to Formal Mathematics for Economic Modeling, by Dai Zusai
  • Engineering, Technology, and Management | STEM Writing: Strategies, Techniques, and Tools, by Geoff Keston
  • Health Informatics | Teaching and Learning Health Data Science For Health Informatics and Health Information Management, by Bari Dzomba
  • French, German, Italian and Slavic | Gratis! A Flipped-Classroom and Active Learning Approach to Italian, by Carmelo A. Galati
  • Kinesiology | Hands on Anatomy, by Jacqueline Phillips and Michael O'Hara
  • Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine | A Guide to the Physical Examination of the Shoulder, by Leslie Barnes, Aaron Chen, Akhil Katakam, and William Levine
  • Physics | Physics I, by Michael Opferman
  • Social Work | The Role of Combined Action in Enhancing Organizations’ Sustainability  edited by Marsha Zibalese-Crawford
  • Theater Studies and Playwriting | Two-Faced: American Minstrelsy and Philadelphia's Role in the Racial Reckoning, by Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon

Get Help

Mary Rose Muccie
Scholarly Communications Officer and Executive Director, Temple University Press
maryrose.muccie@temple.edu

Alicia Pucci
Scholarly Communications Associate
alicia.pucci@temple.edu