Open access titles from the University of Calgary Press

The motto of the University of Calgary Press is “Making a difference. Making you think.” We want to ensure that the great research of our authors is accessible to the widest possible audience and is used to create new knowledge. Open access publishing helps us do that. With the permission of our authors, titles are published under a Creative Commons license and are available for free download in PDF format from individual book pages on our website. Our open access titles are also published in traditional book format and are available for purchase through bookstores and on-line retailers. We are pleased to pay our authors royalties on all sales and to work with them in promoting their work in innovative ways.

The African Diaspora in Canada: Negotiating Identity and Belonging


After Appropriation: Explorations in Intercultural Philosophy and Religion


Always an Adventure: An Autobiography


Ask Now of the Days that are Past


Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Human Ecology in the Arctic


Canada and the New American Empire: War and Anti-War


Canadian Television Today


A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011


The Citizen's Voice: Twentieth-Century Politics and Literature


Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age: The Guadalajara Church and the Idea of the Mexican Nation, 1788-1853


The Clever Body


A Common Hunger: Land Rights in Canada and South Africa


Cover and Uncover: Eric Cameron


Death Drive Through Gaia Paris


Doubt's Boots: Even Doubt's Shadow


Drones, Clones, and Alpha Babes: Retrofitting Star Trek's Humanism, Post-9/11


The Eloquence of Mary Astell


Filming Politics: Communism and the Portrayal of the Working Class at the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-46


A Grammar of the Kabardian Language


Grassroots Governance?: Chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean


Greenwor(l)ds: Ecocritical Readings of Canadian Women's Poetry


Grey Matters: A Guide for Collaborative Research with Seniors


Happyland: A History of the "Dirty Thirties" in Saskatchewan, 1914-1937


Health Care: A Community Concern?: Developments in the Organization of Canadian Health Services