“Sustaining the Flow: Keeping the Pages Turning in Scholarly Publishing”
22–23 May 2025
Vienna, Austria
The Association of European University Presses (AEUP) invites you to join us for the upcoming conference, “Sustaining the Flow: Keeping the Pages Turning in Scholarly Publishing.” This event will bring together publishers, researchers, librarians, and industry experts to explore the diverse challenges and opportunities in sustaining scholarly publishing. Yet, the conference is more than just a forum for discussing sustainability—it is a space for collaboration, knowledge exchange, and collective problem-solving. With a focus on long-term resilience, we will examine key strategies, innovations, and collaborative efforts that can help shape a more sustainable publishing ecosystem.
The conference will center around five key domains of sustainability: financial and operational models, editorial and technological advancements, cultural and bibliodiversity initiatives, community-driven publishing practices, and environmentally responsible strategies. By exploring these themes together, we aim to inspire new approaches, strengthen networks, and create sustainable pathways for scholarly communication. Join us in Vienna to exchange knowledge, build partnerships, and contribute to the future of scholarly publishing.
Keynotes
✱ Paola Corti
Paola is the Open Education Community Manager at SPARC Europe since 2021, working with the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL) to support each other and do their best to implement the UNESCO OER Recommendations.
She will focus on the role of Open Textbooks in sustainable institutional publishing.
✱ Vanessa Proudman
As Director to SPARC Europe, Vanessa is working to make Open the default in Europe. She has over 20 years’ international experience working with many leading university libraries and publishers.
She will present the DIAMAS Sustainability Toolsuite, designed to help publishers transition to Diamond OA publishing.
Programme
Please note that the conference programme is subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances. We appreciate your understanding.
| Wednesday 21/5/2025 | |
| 16:00–18:00 | Walkshop Walking Conversations on Scholarly Publishing in the streets of Vienna |
| 18:00–22:00 | Pre-conference get-together |
| Thursday 22/5/2025 | |
| 9:00–9:30 | Registration, networking, coffee |
| 9:30–9:45 | Welcoming address AEUP Board (Margo Bargheer) Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| 9:45–10:45 | Keynote 1 ☞ Beyond Access: the Transformative Educational Power of Open Textbooks (Paola Corti, SPARC Europe) ☞ Navigating the Open Textbook Publishing Landscape (Margreet Nieborg, University of Groningen Press) |
| 10:45–11:30 | Session 1: COMMUNITY ☞ Sustainability through Nordic collaboration on open publishing (Christina Lenz, Stockholm University Press) ☞ How MUP gained new fans (and doubled its revenue) at the 2024 Malta Book Festival (Krista Bonnici, Malta University Press) ☞ La naissance of the French Association of University Presses (Sévérine Guiten, Céline Vautrin, Laure Himy-Péri, Alliance des éditeurs scientifiques publics français (Alef)) ☞ How can institutional publishing be made more sustainable? (Birgit Holzner, Innsbruck University press; Karolina Linerová, TIB Open Publishing; Katharina Markgraf, TUM.University Press; Andrea Schmitt, KIT Scientific Publishing) |
| 11.30–12:00 | Coffee break |
| 12:00–12:45 | Tradition and Transformation: Rethinking the Publishing Role of Academies of Sciences (panel discussion) (Piret Lukkanen, Estonian Academy Publishers; Herwig Stöger, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; chaired by Ivo Volt, AEUP Board) |
| 12:45–14:15 | Lunch break |
| 14:15–15:45 | Session 2: FUNDING ☞ Finding Financially Sustainable Business Models for TU Delft OPEN Publishing (Just de Leeuwe, TU Delft OPEN Publishing) ☞ Why is Diamond Open Access the most sustainable way of academic publishing (Martina Dvořáková, Masaryk University Press) ☞ Exploration of the different funding streams available for Diamond Open Access (Iva Melinščak Zlodi, University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; Iryna Kuchma, EIFL; Anna Hughes, Jisc) |
| 15:45–16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15–17:15 | From Ideas to Action: The AEUP Working Groups Launch (organised by Robert Wiese, AEUP Board) |
| 19:00–22:00 | Conference dinner |
| Friday 23/5/2025 | |
| 10:00–10:45 | Keynote 2 How to support the sustainability of institutional publishing (DIAMAS Sustainability Resources) (Vanessa Proudman, SPARC Europe) |
| 10:45–11:30 | Session 3: TECHNOLOGY I ☞ Métopes (Methods and tools for structured publishing): a retrospective look on 20 years of training in the practical use of XML in academic publishing (Dominique Roux, Infrastructure nationale de recherche Métopes) ☞ Open Source Academic Publishing Suite – A single-source publishing workflow for Open Access (Dominik Baumgartner, University Library FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg; Carsten Borchert, SciFlow GmbH, Berlin) |
| 11:30–12:00 | Coffee break |
| 12:00–12:45 | Session 4: TECHNOLOGY II ☞ Meeting Accessibility Regulations in the ERA (Margo Bargheer, Göttingen University Press) ☞ Tools & Technologies for Diamond Open Access in the hands of publishing communities (DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA results) (Martina Dvořáková, Masaryk University Press) |
| 12:45–14:15 | Lunch break |
| 14:15–15:00 | Session 5: CULTURE ☞ Reputation as part of a sustainable business model for Open Access publishers (Robert Wiese, Berlin Universities Publishing) ☞ Tamizdat, From an Old Tradition to a Label under Construction (Stéphanie Cirac, Eur’Orbem – CNRS-Sorbonne University) ☞ Evolving with the Arts: How mdwPress Adapts to Changing Research Landscapes (Kathrin Heinrich, Max Bergmann, mdwPress, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) |
| 15:00–15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30–16:30 | Scaling Small: Horizontal Collaboration based on Open Values and Interoperability to Sustain Open Workflows in Open Access Book Publishing (workshop organised by Margreet Nieborg, Netherlands University Presses; Kevin Sanders, Open Book Collective; Toby Steiner, Thoth Open Metadata) |
| 16:30–17:00 | Turning the Page: Conclusions and Next steps |
Venue
The conference is generously hosted by The Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
1010 Vienna
Conference fees
– 0 EUR for AEUP members (or pending members)
– 150 EUR for non-members (No fee if you are an invited speaker.)
Code of Conduct
Please see the Association of European University Presses (AEUP) Code of Conduct, which is adopted from OpenCon Code of Conduct.