Status, History and Perspectives. First Conference workshop, Stockholm,

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2 Status, History and Perspectives

3 AEUP E is about Europe Cropped version of Blank map of Europe, authors as stated in source (CC BY-SA 2.5,, via Wikimedia Commons)

4 We are AEUP currently 33 members from 16 countries Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Danmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, The Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, United Kingdom of which full members: 27 associate members: 3 patron members: 3 Cropped version of Blank map of Europe, authors as stated in source (CC BY-SA 2.5,, via Wikimedia Commons)

5 Full members (voting) Amsterdam University Press, the Netherlands Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Austria Bozen-Bolzano University Press, Italy CEU Press, Hungary Les Éditions de l EHESS, France Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l homme, France ENS Editions, France Hamburg University Press, Germany Heidelberg University Publishing, Germany Innsbruck University Press, Austria Kassel University Press, Germany KIT Scientific Publishing, Germany Leiden University Press, the Netherlands Leuven University Press, Belgium Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom Masaryk University Press, Czech Republic Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté (PUFC) RTU Press, Riga Silvica Publishing House, Romania Stockholm University Press, Stockholm Tallinn University Press, Estonia Tampere University Press, Finland UGA Editions, France Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Germany Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin University of Tartu Press, Estonia YSU Publishing House, Armenia Associate members Academia Press, Belgium Editura Institutul European, Romania Museum Tusculanum Press, Danmark Patron members OAPEN Foundation, the Netherlands Open Edition, France Research Libraries UK (RLUK), Great Britain Cropped version of Blank map of Europe, authors as stated in source (CC BY-SA 2.5,, via Wikimedia Commons)

6 Interactive map of Europe by Phil Archer, based on Madman2001/Wikimedia Commons, ed. By Ivo Volt CC-By_SA 3.0 unported Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

7 AEUP Board 2017 (in alphabetical order) Margo Bargheer (Göttingen) Christina Lenz (Stockholm) Isabella Meinecke (Hamburg) Astrid Thorn Hillig (Paris) Regine Tobias (Karlsruhe) Ivo Volt (Tartu) Cropped version of Blank map of Europe, authors as stated in source (CC BY-SA 2.5,, via Wikimedia Commons)

8 Short Story of AEUP 2010 idea of founding EUPA (European University Presses Association), as a French Association by law (meeting at APE, Berlin, January) founding the association at Frankfurt (October) review procedures of membership applications bylaws website #1 Board Emmanuelle Corne (F) Andrew Peden Smith (GB) Denise Pierrot (F) Marike Schipper (B) Regine Tobias (G) Yvonne Twisk (B) Ros Webb (GB) Eelco Ferwerda (NL): President 8 members

9 The Purpose of AEUP The purpose of this Association is to develop and support relations between university presses in Europe. It will do this through cooperation and mutuality. Its objective and mission is to improve members abilities in communication, to improve their visibility, to improve their market presence and to protect and promote the distribution of knowledge and the benefits of university presses in the current economic conditions. Bylaws (2010), Article 2

10 Short Story of AEUP 2011 #1 official members meeting of AEUP in Frankfurt website working groups ebook consortia joint stands at book fairs Changes the Board Eelco Ferwerda left Denise Pierrot left new Marianne Alenius (DK) Margo Bargheer (G) President: Marike Schipper 17 members

11 Point of origin It is also interesting an reassuring to learn that despite a great variety in set up, background and size of the presses there is also a large number of common issues and concerns that we share. It is clear that the AEUP can play an important role for university press publishing by providing a platform where we can share information and together look for opportunites to strengthen the position for the European UPs. Source: Minutes of the AEUP Annual Meeting, Frankfurt/Main, October 12th, 2011.

12 Short Story of AEUP 2012 first joint stand at Frankfurt (in collaboration with the working group of German-speaking University Presses) catalog as main challenge Changes the Board Yvonne Twisk left Ros Webb left new Brigitte Maier (G) 21 members from 12 countries

13 Short Story of AEUP 2013 moderate raise of fees (125, 250 ) website under responsibility of KIT relaunch catalog presentation of concept basic functions ready Changes the Board Marike Schipper left new Isabella Meinecke (President) 22 members Talks Romy Beard (Ebrary) Erik Smist, Ann Soeyenbos (Project Muse)

14 Short Story of AEUP 2014 catalog ready for data to be filled in communications activities communication plan International Convention of University Presses (ICUP): round table discussions on criteria of good practice and/ or quality seal idea of gaining sponsors Changes the Board none 23 members from 13 countries Talk Pierre Mounier (OpenEdition)

15 Short Story of AEUP 2014 ff.: on cooperation with vendors The idea of AEUP is not to be a commercial partner but to facilitate the cooperation of for the members. AEUP itself has no commercial interest. tasks to collect information of potential business partners to communicate their offers to members

16 Short Story of AEUP 2015 catalog discussion on catalog: sending metadata to aggregators communication activities COASP (NL): presentation of AEUP ICUP: round table OPERAS: letter of intent website enhancement, twitter flyer Changes the Board Brigitte Maier left 24 members from 12 countries

17 Short Story of AEUP 2015 ff. letters for sponsors Talks social event at the Frankfurt Book Fair Emmanuelle Corne on a Where is your press/institution located (country)? (n = 38) Austria Denmark Finland France Germany Italy Lithuania The Netherlands Sweden Spain United Kingdom French survey on costs of publishing Pierre Mounier on OPERAS survey on UPs #1 idea of an international conference

18 Short Story of AEUP 2016 catalog improvements communications activities ICUP: round table conferences (e.g. University Presses Redux, Manchester, publication OA, Elpub 2016) social event at the Frankfurt Book Fair website, twitter, blog entry (SUP) conference workshop settled Changes the Board Marianne Alenius left Emmanuelle Corne left new Christina Lenz (S) Astrid Thorn Hillig (F) Ivo Volt (ET) 33 members from 15 countries of which 3 patrons from 3 countries

19 2017: Achievements We have seen how the purpose of AUP was fulfilled so far concerning improving communication improving visibility improving market presence protecting and promoting the distribution of knowledge promoting the benefits of university presses intersection: joint catalog

20 A product of AEUP: joint catalog catalog platform all members of AEUP open searchable database metadata of titles between the members print + e-books no proper sales platform to be discussed with the members: focus of the catalog: cooperation with business partners in publishing, marketing for members...

21 18 members 3353 titles

22 Link to publisher page

23 Main Features manual upload of titles upload of titles via ONIX or standardized CSV after upload: possibility to edit titles export titles as ONIX

24 Help desk by AEUP Board Video tutorial of CSV-Import:

25 Account

26 Please update your catalog frequently!!

27 How we came to our topics Topics that emerged from survey and meetings Let us talk about quality in publishing From print to digitality: electronic publishing and open access business model / sustainability

28 Now it s time for our #1 Conference workshop! Let us meet. Let us get to know each other. Let us network. Let us discuss important topics of high interest. Let us get started! Cropped version of Blank map of Europe, authors as stated in source (CC BY-SA 2.5,, via Wikimedia Commons)

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30 So here we are Status what comes next? It is up to us!