For general inquiries please contact the AEUP Board at info@aeup.eu, for questions about the venue and local organisation please contact Martina Dvořáková at dvorakova@press.muni.cz
The AEUP Board has written a summary of the workshop, which was aimed at editors and publishers who want to acquire knowledge and gain first hand experience with tools for creating standardized documents in XML. The first day focused on general information on XML-based publishing and about the Métopes project. The following two days offered hands-on experience with Métopes software.
The feedback from the participants of the workshop was very positive. The role of AEUP in this cooperation is best described as an intermediary and an aggregator of ideas.
Anyone who is interested in writing a blog post about XML-based publishing, perhaps you were one of the attandees of this workshop and would like to give your comments and response, please contact us at info@aeup.eu.
June, 5–6 2018: AEUP held the workshop “Keeping up with the standards” in Riga, Latvia, hosted by RTU Press. About 30 participants from a dozen countries joined.
A survey on standards in quality control and reviewing, production, dissemination and distribution.
Save the dates June, 12–14 2019, for the 2nd AEUP 2019 conference in Brno, hosted by Masaryk University Press. More information about the conference will appear on the website in January.
The AEUP Board is looking forward to 2019, a new year filled with AEUP activities and events. We want all of you to take part in discussions, activities and tell us what you think is important for us to work with.
All of us in the AEUP Board would like to thank all members for everything we have accomplished together in 2018.
This week is the international University Press Week 2018. Why celebrate this? It is an occasion to highlight the work we do at University Presses and give credit to all involved.
This years’s theme is focusing on UPs ability to find authors and publish their work, might otherwise would not be published #TurnItUP. The theme was chosen by the Association of University Presses (AUPresses).
Several of our AEUP members presses have and are taking part in this.
This year’s annual meeting will be held at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Thursday, 11 October 2018, 13:00–15:00.
The meeting will take place in hall 3 East/Ost in the room EXTRAKT.
From 13:00 to 14:00: Only for AEUP members (AEUP annual reports on economic status, Riga workshop, survey, strategies etc.)
From 14:00 to 15:00: The meeting will be open to all interested parties.
AEUP 2019 conference in Brno, hosted by Masaryk University Press on 12–14 June 2019
XML-workshop in Göttingen, organised by AEUP, Métopes and HIRMEOS on 11–13 December 2018 Please fill in our small survey before the book fair, about what specific XML-topics/needs should be raised at the workshop, which we would like to discuss with you at this second part of the meeting.
Please let us know if you have any questions or something you would like to discuss at the annual meeting: info@aeup.eu
Drinks reception after the meeting
After the meeting we will have an informal drinks reception at Hall 4.2, stands E68/E71/E73/E74/F75/E77.
About 30 participants from a dozen countries (Armenia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden) joined the international AEUP workshop on standards from May 4th-6th, 2018 in Riga (Latvia). The workshop was hosted by AEUP member RTU Press / Riga Technical University . We are very grateful to them for creating a prolific framework and making us feel very welcome. Among the participants were university presses as well as institutional publishers and experts from Numédif-Métopes, the PKP Knowledge Project and Ubiquity Press. Two new members were welcomed that turned out to be the presses with the longest and shortest tradition within the association – Vilnius University Press, tracing back its history till 1575, and the recently founded University of Groningen Press.
Participants agreed that the workshop was an important step towards unlocking the potential that lies within AEUP, and that the event was a highly productive one several aspects.
About the workshop
The workshop started with AEUP member presentations and some basic information about the AEUP organisation itself in consideration of the workshop’s main topics. First survey results concerning reviewing and quality control, production and dissemination sent in advance of the event provided basics of publishing and provided other important topics and stimulation for the following discussions.
AEUP survey shows that AEUP member presses want workshops and webinars by AEUP. Let’s do it together! #AEUP18pic.twitter.com/KkXcdyUFY4
The event offered four different sessions with input by experts on the very different topics, followed by group break-out and discussions. The sessions dealt with standards in quality control and reviewing including input from Abigail Murdy from Ubiquity Press, standards in production including input from Dominique Roux and Edith Cannet from Numédif-Métopes, standards in publishing with PKP’s Bozana Bokan and standards in dissemination including input from board members.
Dominique Roux explaining Numédif-Métopes project – turning editorial content into publishing media #AEUP18pic.twitter.com/V9pzuAWIHF
Knowledge exchange and networking was encouraged by group work after each session, bringing together publishers with different backgrounds and expectations which led to greater benefits for everyone due to new insights and new perspectives. The group feedback led to inspiring findings for all teh participants.
Ad hoc workshop with Dominique Roux and Edith Cannet (Numédif-Métopes) and Bozana Bokan (PKP) (photo: Ivo Volt, Tartu)
The awakening of new interests can be best illustrated by the fact that several participants, as well as the experts from Numédif-Métopes and PKP, promptly got together after the event for an ad hoc workshop in order to intensify exchange on Métopes’ integrated xml-based workflow.
Direct outcome for 2018: a workshop on integrated xml publishing
Due to the deep interest in this topic and as a result of the survey in preparation of this event (results will be published soon), there will be a three day xml workshop in Göttingen in December 2018 for AEUP members. Organised by AEUP, Métopes and HIRMEOS and mentored by AEUP patron member OPERAS, it will present productive ways of enabling a sustainable “high integration of monographs” in European open science knowledge networks (HIRMEOS).
Big event in 2019: 2nd AEUP Conference
The workshop in Riga closed with a great outlook: In June 2019, the 2nd AEUP Conference will take place in Brno (Czech Republic). It will be hosted by AEUP Member Masaryk University Press.
We are really looking forward to meeting you on this great occasion. Let’s come together and network!
By Leon saudanha (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
The survey covers three important phases of publishing:
quality control and reviewing
production (turning content into products)
dissemination and distribution.
We would be very grateful if you could spend 5-10 minutes to do the survey. The results of the survey will be published later (Autumn 2018 at the latest) on the AEUP website.
So please answer the survey; by doing so you will contribute to shape AEUP’s work according to your needs and burning topics.
#AEUP18 workshop “Keeping up with the Standards”
At the AEUP member meeting at Frankfurt book fair 2017 and at the first #AEUP17 Conference in Stockholm, we discussed that many of us try to keep up with standards in publishing. Some of us are successful, some of us are struggling. Therefore we hope that this survey will give us a better overview of what we need to discuss further.
We made this survey specifically as a preparation for our #AEUP18 workshop “Keeping up with the Standards”, held in Riga on 5-6 June 2018. We hope you can join us in Latvia to exchange experiences with experts and colleagues. If you have not registered already, do not forget to book your place.
European university presses play an important role in scholarly communication. Therefore AEUP, as a core group of interest, pushes forward and declares seven statements on European University Presses.
The statements have been discussed earlier at the 2017 AEUP year’s members meeting. They originate from the (7) recommendations that the board addressed as an outcome of the AEUP Conference in Stockholm May 16-17.
The Board of AEUP hopes that our member presses, and other university presses, will be inspired to write their own statements and have a discussion.
Perhaps your press would like to write a blog post discussing this from your point of view? Please get in contact with the AEUP Board: info@aeup.eu.
The Association of European University Presses aims to enhance the visibility of member presses, facilitate communication between them, share knowledge about and support for scholarly publishing.
