Welcome to the University of Minnesota Press’s Library of Open-Access Titles

Known for its boundary breaking editorial program in the humanities and social sciences, the University of Minnesota Press developed Manifold as an innovative platform to publish and read open-access books online. Browse the collections below, explore our full library of open titles, and start reading today.

Learn more about Manifold
Welcome to the University of Minnesota Press’s Library of Open-Access Titles

Newest Releases

New and recently updated titles to which we'd like to direct your attention. Check out our entire library of open titles.

Prizewinners

These recent University of Minnesota Press titles have earned recognition from some of the world’s leading scholarly organizations.

Forerunners: Ideas First

Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, and the synergy of academic exchange.
See the full collection

Rediscoveries

Rediscoveries presents books of continuing scholarly importance, originally published by Minnesota over the past two decades, in new open-access editions.
Warmly lit room show two upholstered accent chairs in front of a large library of well-used books.
See the full collection

Critical Ethnic Studies

Edited by Neel Ahuja, Iyko Day, and Rana Jaleel, Critical Ethnic Studies explores the guiding question of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association: how do the histories of colonialism and conquest, racial chattel slavery, and white supremacist patriarchies and heteronormativities affect, inspire, and unsettle scholarship and activism in the present? By decentering the nation-state as a unit of inquiry, focusing on scholarship that expands the identity rhetoric of ethnic studies, engaging in productive dialogue with indigenous studies, and making critical studies of gender and sexuality guiding intellectual forces, this journal appeals to scholars interested in the methodologies, philosophies, and discoveries of this new intellectual formation.

Mural of faces on concrete wall topped with barbed wire.
Visit the journal page

International Journal of Surrealism

Welcome to IJS Online, the open-access online section of the International Journal of Surrealism. This journal creates a welcome space for critical ideas and debate centered on Surrealism, its international history, and its ongoing worldwide influence on contemporary culture. IJS seeks to document, celebrate, and interrogate the intellectual and aesthetic repercussions of the Surrealist movement across a wide array of fields: literature and literary theory; painting, sculpture, and photography; performance, film, and music; and philosophy, political thought, and new media. IJS upholds the mission of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS), serving as a platform for Surrealist studies in the contemporary moment and for the digital age.

Five red parallelograms side by side with circular glyphs, suggestive of eyes, layered on top of them.
Visit the journal page