Foreign Rights
McGill-Queen's University Press is always keen to reach an even wider audience for its books. Although MQUP has worldwide distribution, we recognize that certain titles are better served by co-publication arrangements outside Canada. In such cases our rights department begins contacting potential publishers once the manuscript has been received for review. We also attend the annual international book fairs in Frankfurt, London, and Guadalajara, as well as La Feria Internacional del Libro de las Universitarias y los Universitarios (Filuni) and other fairs, to present titles in person.
Visit our Rights Catalogue for the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Visit our Rights Catalogue for the Seoul International Book Fair.
Co-publication
The press is active in both the purchase and the sale of rights to editions for territorial markets. Recent co-publishers include Harcourt Brace, the British Museum Press, Acumen Publishing Ltd, Oxford University Press, University of Washington Press, University of Georgia Press, Cornell University Press, University of Chicago Press, the Smithsonian Institution Press, Gill & Macmillan Ltd, C. Hurst & Co., Macmillan, St. Martins, David Godine, Stanford University Press, University of Oklahoma Press, and University of Texas Press.
Translation
The rights department at MQUP seeks out foreign-language publishers for most of the titles on our list. In Canada we have close relations with many francophone publishers and regularly send them translation proposals for books we think will be of interest. To date we have licensed foreign editions in most of the major languages of the world, including Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
Please feel free to send your rights queries to permissions.mqup@mcgill.ca.
Permissions
To apply for permission to reproduce McGill-Queen's University Press copyrighted material, fill out this form. While we make every effort to respond to each request in a timely manner, a written reply can be expected within three to four weeks. With that in mind, please be sure to apply for permission well in advance of your expected publication date.
If you are requesting permission to reproduce material in a course pack or to be placed on electronic course reserves, please fill out this form.
For non-print uses, or to reproduce material not specifically outlined here, please write to us with a description of your project.
If your request is for permission to use material for a subsequent time, please provide us with a copy of your original permission letter by mail or electronically.
Permissions Department
McGill-Queen's University Press
1010 Sherbrooke Street West, Suite 1720
Montreal, QC H3A 2R7
Email: permissions.mqup@mcgill.ca
Request for Accessible Formats
McGill-Queen's University Press may provide alternate files of our books for students or other readers with print disabilities. Please note that these requests must be made through the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, an accessibility centre at a college or university, or another recognized institution.
These institutions must confirm that the student or user has provided proof of purchase and signed the institution’s relevant documents acknowledging copyright protection.
Request to Photocopy
To obtain permission to photocopy material comprising less than 15 per cent of a book published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, readers in Quebec may contact Copibec; readers elsewhere in Canada and the United States may contact the Copyright Clearance Center.
Copibec
606 Cathcart Street, Suite 810
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3B 1K9
Tel: (514) 288-1664 or (1-800) 717-2022
Fax: (514) 288-1669
Email: info@copibec.qc.ca
Website: copibec.ca/en
Copyright Clearance Center
222 Rosewood Drive
Danvers, MA 01923
USA
Tel: (978) 750-8400
Fax: (978) 646-8600
Email: info@copyright.com
Website: copyright.com