University of Minnesota Press Fact Sheet

The University of Minnesota Press is an independent auxiliary of the University of Minnesota. This means that while the Press is a department of the University, it is self-supporting-less than 6% of its funding comes from the University, or less than $300,000 per year. The Press is a nonprofit organization.

Decisions about what to publish are made on the basis of several factors: quality, originality, and importance of the scholarship; evaluations by experts in the field; potential contribution to the author's discipline and academic discourse generally; and, in the case of regional books, service to the people of the state of Minnesota.

The University of Minnesota Press is editorially independent. A faculty advisory board, the Committee on the Press, reviews and votes on all proposed book projects, evaluating the quality and importance of both scholarly content and solicited peer reviews.