The fourth-largest university press in Canada, WLUP publishes work in a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences — literary criticism, indigenous studies, sociology, environmental studies, and history among them — as well as books of regional interest.
Laurier Press also provides publishing services to scholarly associations and journals.
WLUP has been typesetting books from electronic files since 1984, and was one of the first publishers to have a web presence in 1994.
Wilfrid Laurier University Press distributes titles for the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Toronto International Film Festival (in Canada) and the Cress Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay.
WLUP is represented in the trade market by in Canada by Ampersand Inc., in the United States by Ingram Academic, and around the world by Eurospan.