Vi fremmer den vigtige indsats hos en verdensomspændende sammenslutning af forlag, hvis væsentligste opgave er at sikre fremragende akademisk arbejde og styrke vidensformidling.
In English, the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) mission statement above commits to advancing “the essential role of a global community of publishers whose mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge.” You can read this same commitment in 30 languages—in addition to the Danish translation provided by Aarhus University Press in 2020 and seen above—throughout our website, reminding us every day of the international network of colleagues who do the work of university presses
AUPresses expressed our engagement with the global scholarly ecosystem over the past year by:
- Welcoming Anthony Cond (Liverpool) as the Association’s first non-North American President.
- Embracing Hanover Press in the US, Memorial University Press in Canada, NUS Press in Singapore, and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Press in Ukraine as new members, as well as Monash University Publishing in Australia as a returning member.
- Sponsoring 3 Ukrainian university press publishers to attend the 2024 Annual Meeting in Montréal.
- Continuing to engage staff from member presses located outside the US in committee work: 30 publishing professionals from Canada, China, Egypt, Hungary, The Netherlands, South Africa, and the UK served on AUPresses committees this program year, including 8 in leadership roles.
- Responding to UK government consultations on open access and long-form scholarship as well as copyright law and artificial intelligence.
- Forming a new Global Partnerships Task Force to help us explore opportunities for collaboration with university presses in the Global South.
- Organizing cooperative exhibit space for our member presses to attend international book fairs in Mexico City (FILUNI) and London as well as scholarly communications conferences: the Charleston Library Conference in South Carolina, the UKSG Annual Conference in Brighton, and Association of College and Research Libraries Conference in Minneapolis.
- Cosponsoring the UP Redux 2025, organized by the Association of Learned and Professional Scholarly Publishers (ALPSP) and Oxford University Press in April 2025.
- Working together with ALPSP, the National Information Standards Organization, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers to create the Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing Impact. The inaugural recipient of this award, which celebrates innovations that have transformed the global scholarly publishing ecosystem, is the Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
- Launching a small UK tour for the 2024 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show at the UP Redux conference in Oxford that also included stops in Liverpool and Manchester. The exhibition also visited Edmonton and Montréal in Canada this year.
- Celebrating UP Week 2024 with in-person events in Barcelona, Dublin, London, Manchester, and Oxford, in addition to 15 cities in the US.
- Continuing to serve on the international steering committee for Peer Review Week.
- Executive Director Peter Berkery participating in the Researcher to Reader conference in London (February 2025)