Association of University Presses
The Association of University Presses (International Association of University Presses) e.V. is an international nonprofit association of university presses, its members as well as of regional university press associations. It was founded 2013/2014 in Bochum, Germany following an initiative of the International Convention of University Presses on the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013.[1]
Membership
The Association in 2014 has more than 30 members from North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania and Australia, it offers a multilingual forum for university presses. The members dedicate their work to the scientific and scholarly community and the common welfare and fulfill an important social function of education, spread of knowledge and societal progress.[2][3]
Duties and aims
The members face the same challenges of non-commercial scientific publishing in small numbers of copies, in front of the background of new developments of digitalization. The association fosters innovative solutions, it encourages presses with "best practice" solutions to share their solutions with the other members. One aim is to establish a platform with easy access to all publications of its members.[4]
Support of other associations
The association supports likewise minded regional associations, e.g. the Association of American University Presses and other initiatives like Open Access or the International Convention of University Presses on the Frankfurt Book Fair.[5]
List of members
The Association in 2014 lists the following institutional members on its website:[6]
Africa
- ESSTIC University Press, University of Yaounde II, Cameroun
Asia
- Guangxi Normal University Press, Guilin, Guangxi, China
- Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia
- Kentavri - Publishing House of Georgian Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University, Georgia
Australia
- University of Queensland Press (UQP)
- University of Western Australia Press
- Monash University Publishing
Europe
- West German University Press, Bochum, Germany]]
- Editorial de la Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
- Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
- Crete University Press, Greece
- RomaTrE-Press, Italy
- European University Press, Network of European University Presses, Subgroup of the Association of University Presses
North America
- Rochester Institute of Technology Press
- Athabasca University Press
- Altexto, Network of Mexican University Presses
- Editorial Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
- Editorial Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico
- Editorial Universidad de Guadelajara, Mexico
- Editorial Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, Mexico
South America
- Editorial Universidad del Rosario, Columbia
References
- ↑ "AUP definition". 1 November 2014.
- ↑ "AUP About us". 1 November 2014.
- ↑ "AUP networks". 1 November 2014.
- ↑ "AUP definition". 1 November 2014.
- ↑ "AUP networks". 1 November 2014.
- ↑ "AUP networks". 1 November 2014.