By Hannah Johnson
During the Frankfurt Book Fair, the formation of the Association of European University Presses (AEUP) was announced. “Despite the great variety amounts European university presses,” said Marike Schipper of Leuven University Press in her keynote presentation during the launch, the goal of the AEUP is to address issues specific to Europe “with the help of a shared platform, a network of presses.”
Although many European university presses have joined the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) as foreign members, Schipper said that “there still is quite a difference between the tradition of university press publishing in the US and in Europe.”
The mission statement of the AEUP stresses the need for presses to work closely with their parent organization and to uphold their “commitment to peer review and the assessment of new manuscripts.”
You can find more information about the AEUP online, and you can download Marike Schipper’s keynote (Word document).
The eight founding members of the AEUP are:
- Amsterdam University Press, the Netherlands
- ENS Editions, France
- KIT Scientific Publishers, Germany
- Leuven University Press, Belgium
- Northumbria University Press, United Kingdom
- Nottingham University Press, United Kingdom
- Fondation Maison Sciences de l’Homme, France
- Leiden University Press, the Netherlands
Contact Information:
Association of European University Presses (AEUP)
Emmanuelle Corne
info[AT]aeup[DOT]eu
Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
54 bd Raspail
75006 Paris, France