The University of Michigan Press, a part of the University of Michigan Library, serves as a primary publishing unit of the University, with special responsibility for the creation and promotion of scholarly, educational, and regional books.

The Press publishes materials in a wide range of humanities and social science disciplines; produces educational texts for student audiences, with special emphasis on English language teaching; publishes information that advances public understanding of the many vexed political, social, and cultural issues faced by a global, multicultural society; and produces regional books that contribute to fiction and the arts, human history, natural history, and the changing environment of Michigan and the Great Lakes.