Concordia University Press

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| country = Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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| distribution = University of British Columbia Press (English titles)
Presses de l'Université de Montréal (French titles)
University of Chicago Press (United States)

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Concordia University Press is a university press associated with Concordia University, located in Montreal, Canada. The press, which was organized by the university's library before being incorporated as its own entity, issues books in both English and French.{{cite web|url=https://www.concordia.ca/press/about.html|title=About the Press|accessdate=February 14, 2023|publisher=Concordia University Press}}

While formally founded in October 2016,{{Cite journal |last=Little |first=Geoffrey |date=2018 |title=Old Traditions and New Technologies: Creating Concordia University Press |url=https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp.49.2.213 |journal=Journal of Scholarly Publishing |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=213–230|doi=10.3138/jsp.49.2.213 |access-date=March 30, 2023}} Concordia University Press can trace its origin back to the university's 2012-2016 Academic Plan, which called for the creation of "innovative knowledge dissemination platforms, like an electronic press at Concordia".{{Cite journal |last=Little |first=Geoffrey |date=2017 |title=Nothing New Under the Sun: Library Publishing and the Concordia University Press |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0020.205 |journal=Journal of Electronic Publishing |volume=20 |issue=2|doi=10.3998/3336451.0020.205 |access-date=March 30, 2023|doi-access=free }} One of Concordia University's librarians had experience in journal publishing and was thus able to help spearhead this initiative and see it through to fruition.

Concordia University Press is a member of the Association of Canadian University Presses and the Association of Canadian Publishers,{{cite web |title=ACUP |url=http://acup-apuc.ca/ |publisher=Association of Canadian University Presses (ACUP) / Association des presses universitaires canadiennes (APUC) |access-date=February 2, 2023}}{{cite web |title=Our Members |date=May 25, 2021 |url=https://publishers.ca/our-members/ |access-date=February 14, 2023|publisher=Association of Canadian Publishers}} and an affiliate of the Association of University Presses.{{cite web |title=Our Members |url=https://aupresses.org/membership/membership-list/ |access-date=January 30, 2023 |publisher=Association of University Presses}}