HUP publishes academic, peer-reviewed monographs, edited volumes and journals from all fields. Manuscripts are selected for publication according to purely scientific criteria. The main emphasis is on English-language publications, but we do not rule out Finnish, Swedish or other languages either.

HUP is owned by the University of Helsinki, and the management of the publisher’s operations is shared between the Helsinki University Library and Gaudeamus, a publishing house for non-fiction literature in Finnish.