Parallel Press

The Parallel Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, publishes print and digital publications featuring new works of scholars, researchers, and poets. Parallel Press also makes important and out-of-print scholarly research available for study in both print and digital formats. These publications are the result of collaborations with the UW campus community and represent an ongoing commitment by the Libraries to scholarly communication as a contribution to the Wisconsin Idea and in support of the outreach mission of the university.

Chapbooks

Since 1999 Parallel Press has published a poetry chapbook series often penned by UW faculty members or authors with a tie to Wisconsin. The America's Founders biographical history series was launched in 2004 in collaboration with the Center for the Study of the American Constitution. Other chapbooks include partnerships with the UW Creative Writing Program, the Department of Theater & Drama, and the Chazen Museum of Art.

Books

Parallel Press publishes important and out-of-print monographs in print and digital formats providing access to scholars around the world. Recent publications resulted from collaborations with the faculty of the UW departments of Soil Science, Comparative Literature, and the College of Agriculture.

Digital

While managed independently of the Parallel Press, the UW-Madison Libraries' digital collections are inexorably linked with the press' print-on-demand publishing operations as the original source of all reprinted material. If enough interest is shown, nearly any of these online resources could be the basis of a future Parallel Press print publication.