| Parent company | University of Melbourne |
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| Founded | 1922; 103 years ago (1922) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Headquarters location | Melbourne |
| Distribution | Simon & Schuster (Australia) Simon & Schuster (US) Mare Nostrum Group (Europe)[1] |
| Publication types | Books |
| Imprints | Miegunyah Press, MUP Academic |
| Official website | www |
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is the book publishing arm of theUniversity of Melbourne. The press is currently a member of theAssociation of University Presses.[2]
MUP was founded in 1922 asMelbourne University Press to sell text books and stationery to students, and soon began publishing books itself. Over the years scholarly works published under the MUP imprint have won numerous awards and prizes. The nameMelbourne University Publishing was adopted for the business in 2003 following a restructure by the university, but books continue to be published under theMelbourne University Press imprint.[3] The company's mandate was expressed by the tag line, "Books with Spine", which was coined by the writer Guy Rundle whenLouise Adler asked him for a suitable motto.[4] The tag line was later changed to "Australia's first university press".[5]
The Miegunyah Press is an imprint of MUP, established in 1967 under a bequest from businessman and philanthropistRussell Grimwade, with the intention of subsidising the publication of illustrated scholarly works that would otherwise be uneconomic to publish. Grimwade's great-grandnephewAndrew Grimwade was its patron.Miegunyah is from an Aboriginal Australian language, meaning "my house".[6]
Since 2008, the literary journalMeanjin is an editorially independent imprint of MUP.[7]
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