University of Toronto Press

The press originally printed only examination books and the university calendar.^[3] Its first scholarly book was a work by a classics professor at University College, Toronto.^[3] The press took control of the university bookstore in 1933.^[3] It employed a novel typesetting method to print issues of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics, founded in 1949.^[4]

The press has always had close ties with University of Toronto Libraries. The press was partially located in the library from 1910-1920. The University Librarian Hugh Hornby Langton, the lead librarian of the University of Toronto Libraries, served as the first general editor of the University of Toronto Press. ^[5]

Sidney Earle Smith, president of the University of Toronto in the late 1940s and 1950s, instituted a new governance arrangement for the press modelled on the governing structure of the university as a whole (on the standard Canadian university governance model defined by the Flavelle commission). Henceforth, the press's business affairs and editorial decision-making would be governed by separate committees, the latter by academic faculty.^[6] A committee composed of Vincent Bladen, George Williams Brown (general editor of the press from 1951^[7]), and A. S. P. Woodhouse studied the publishing policies of American university presses to inform the structure of the press's publishing division.^[6]

Beginning in 1971, the press printed its books simultaneously on paper and microfiche.^[8]

The press is currently a member of the Association of University Presses.^[9]

• Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• University of Toronto Press Publications

• Harman, Eleanor, ed. (1961). The University as Publisher. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-1519-9. JSTOR 10.3138/j.ctt1vxmbd1. OCLC 1151834758. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Jeanneret, Marsh (1989). God and Mammon: Universities as Publishers. Macmillan of Canada. ISBN 0-7715-9205-1. OCLC 20525803.