Association of European University Presses

If you are a University Press, why not consider joining our new Association of European University Presses?

New enquiries are always welcome!

Membership of the AEUP is subject to an annual membership fee, based on the number of publications (ISBN/ISSN) published by the member press in the calendar year preceding the year of membership.

The benefits are extraordinary and are summarised as follows:

• Increase visibility of our presses through joint stands at book fairs and shared catalogues.
• Share knowledge through training programmes and workshops.
• Support new presses – establishing professional and best practices along with exchanging internship programmes. 
• Collaboration on publishing projects such as co-publications and translations.
• Open access issues (Including OApen access) – best practice information sharing.

Additional benefits of the Association include:

• Sharing knowledge within Europe.
• Establishing the idea of UP's.
• Enhancing the image and the standards of UP publishing.
• Exchanging practical and commercial advantages (for example discounts, joint stands on book fairs, joint advertising) via a Wiki on the AEUP website.
• Possibility to build ad hoc coalitions with a varying group of member presses on certain topics (for example Open Access, eBook consortiums like OSO Oxford Scholarship Online).
• Monitoring EU Policy and voice opinions to Brussels.
• Information on distribution channels per country.
• Information on funding for translations per country.
• Author contract models: even if they are country specific they have some basic fields that should be covered: for example: what is a contract, what should be inside, royalties, author copies, discount for author copies, open access, specific terms (copyright).
• EBooks – formats, pricing, releases, distributions, market, selling.

Further information about the association will be available shortly. In the meantime, if you wish to discuss your application, please contact Ros Webb on +44 (0) 1159 832832

Website: www.aeup.eu (under construction)