« Presentations from the 2nd AEUP conference (Re-)Shaping University Presses and Institutional Publishing, are now available on Zenodo.
An outcome of the conference was the Declaration from the 2nd AEUP conference. It states that the landscape of academic publishing…
« The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press was the first university press to sign an agreement with the Internet Archive to scan older print books for which it had no digital copies to make them available for one-at-a-time lending, a model known as Controlled Digital Lending.…
« The following is a statement from the Association of American Universities, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of University Presses welcoming Cornell University to the Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) initiative, which includes more than 60 university presses and 15 university members. (…) »
« The University of Helsinki’s own open access publisher Helsinki University Press (HUP) has refined its publishing and service processes and is preparing to publish its first books this year. HUP will also publish scientific journals in the future. (…) »
(…)) Working with the Open Library of Humanities
Today is the culmination for over 12 months of hard work behind the scenes to get the platform ready, and we would like to thank Martin Paul Eve, Andy Byers and Mauro Sanchez for their endless enthusiasm for the vast amount…
« Within the HIRMEOS project, Göttingen University Press aims to add on its platform new services that allow for deeper interaction with Open Access monographs. The University Press is pleased to announce that now it is possible to annotate all its publications within the browser through the Hypothes.is…
« (…) ‘Feisty and febrile academic publishing’: The University Press Redux II
Anthony Cond and Lara Speicher
University presses have too often suffered because of a diluted form of the same thinking, resulting in a largely under‐resourced sector, yet one that retains a formidable reputation among academic faculty for…
« Are you working at a University Press? The board of AEUP would like to invite you to do a survey on reviewing and quality control, production and dissemination/distribution.
The survey covers three important phases of publishing:
quality control and reviewing production (turning content into products) dissemination and…« UCL Press is launching a new open access megajournal that will provide academics and students with ground-breaking research free of charge in a move that challenges traditional commercial publishing models.
The megajournal aims to revolutionise academic publishing by slashing publication times, providing research for free to anyone with an…
« (…) Stockholm University Press aims to make journals and books affordable, and to enable the widest possible global dissemination so that researchers can find and access the information they need without barriers.
To ensure that all our journals and books are published under the terms of Creative Commons Licenses, and…
