Universal Publishers is the parent publishing company of three non-fiction book imprints specializing in textbook and academic titles (Universal-Publishers, BrownWalker Press & Dissertation.com). The BrownWalker Press imprint was launched in 2001 to publish academic textbooks, scholarly monographs, and edited collections across a wide range of academic expertise. In 2010, BrownWalker Press added an academic conference proceeding publishing division (ConferencePaper Publisher), and in 2011 launched the ASMT International Journal of Afro-Asian Studies, the first of a series of open access, academic journals. Universal Publishers has over 1000 nonfiction and how-to titles currently available in print and electronically, and releases about 50 new titles each year. In addition to worldwide distribution through Ingram Content Group, it has an independent distribution relationship for some of its titles in India with Overseas Press.