u/Informal-Onion-1131

If you are in the humanities, I am curious to hear what your department's views are on commercial vs. university presses for tenure reviews.

I have heard from colleagues that university presses are preferable, even in fields where important scholarship is also being published by presses like Palgrave Macmillan, Bloomsbury, and Routledge.

You could even argue that these commercial presses publish more relevant work and that seeking to publish with any given university press just because it has university in its name is pretty arbitrary.