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The Association of European University Presses (AEUP) is an organisation of and for
* Full members – in order to become a full member, the press needs to meet the criteria such as to belong to or be formally linked to an academic institution (university, research institute or learned society); to have a clearly-defined editorial policy; to apply selection and peer-review procedures; to respect professional ethics in relation with authors, other publishers, and professional partners; and others.
* Associate members – need to meet all criteria except for the formal relationship with a university or research body. Instead they will have to have an established relationship with such a body.
* Patron members – other publishing organisations supporting the mission of the AEUP.
Association of European University Presses
Higher education organisations based in Europe Publishing-related professional associations University presses
university presses
A university press is an academic publishing house affiliated with an institution of higher learning that specializes in the publication of monographs and scholarly journals. This article outlines notable presses of this type, arranged by country; ...
across Europe. As of March 2021, it has 43 members from 18 countries.
Mission
The Association of European University Presses aims to enhance the visibility of member presses, facilitate communication between them, share knowledge about and support for scholarly publishing. The Association cooperates with other international institutions like theAssociation of University Presses
The Association of University Presses (AUPresses) is an association of nonprofit, mostly, but not exclusively, North American university presses. It is based in New York City. Until December 2017, it was known as the Association of American Univ ...
and is a partner organisation to European research infrastructure OPERAS.
History
The Association of European University Presses was founded in 2010 by a number of university presses who feel the need to reach out to each other in order to work together in reaching common goals. It was launched at theFrankfurt Bookfair
The Frankfurt Book Fair (German: , FBM) is the world's largest trade fair for books, based on the number of publishing companies represented. The five-day annual event in mid-October is held at the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds in Frankfurt am ...
on 7 October 2010. In March 2011 the Association was officially declared in the Journal Officiel de la République Française
The ''Official Journal of the French Republic'' (), also known as the ''JORF'' or ''JO'', is the government gazette of the French Republic. It publishes the major legal official information from the national Government of France, the French Pa ...
. Since the very beginning the focus was on a joint catalogue which was launched in 2014. In 2017 the Association organised the first AEUP conference on “Going digital in Europe” hosted by Stockholm University Press and the Stockholm University Library
Stockholm University Library () is the research library of the Stockholm University with one main library and eight unit libraries. Stockholm University Library is one of Sweden's largest research libraries, providing extensive access to e-books a ...
. The second AEUP conference on “(Re-)Shaping University Presses and Institutional Publishing” was held in 2019 and was hosted by Masaryk University
Masaryk University (MU) (; ) is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno, it now consists of ten faculties and 35,115 students. It is named after To ...
, Brno, Czech Republic on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. In 2020 the AEUP co-organised an online workshop on multilingualism as a satellite event of the annual conference of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Since the beginning the Association organises joint stand at large book fairs such as Frankfurt Book Fair
The Frankfurt Book Fair (German: , FBM) is the world's largest trade fair for books, based on the number of publishing companies represented. The five-day annual event in mid-October is held at the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds in Frankfurt am ...
and holds its annual meeting each year at the fair.
Members
AEUP members fall into the following groups:
* Full members – in order to become a full member, the press needs to meet the criteria such as to belong to or be formally linked to an academic institution (university, research institute or learned society); to have a clearly-defined editorial policy; to apply selection and peer-review procedures; to respect professional ethics in relation with authors, other publishers, and professional partners; and others.
* Associate members – need to meet all criteria except for the formal relationship with a university or research body. Instead they will have to have an established relationship with such a body.
* Patron members – other publishing organisations supporting the mission of the AEUP.
See also
*Academic publishing
Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes Research, academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in academic journal articles, books or Thesis, theses. The part of academic written output that is n ...
*Library publishing
Library publishing, also known as campus-based publishing, is the practice of an academic library providing publishing services.
Concept
A library publishing service usually publishes academic journals and often provides a broader range of publis ...
*Open access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 de ...
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Association of European University Presses
Higher education organisations based in Europe Publishing-related professional associations University presses