While the official deadline has passed, and we have already received many interesting submissions (Thank you!), we would still love to hear from you! Since this conference thrives on community-driven learning and inspiration, we want to encourage as many of you as possible to share your case studies, challenges, and insights. If you’ve been considering submitting but haven’t yet, this is you chance – send us your proposal for a vignette or poster by the end of this week (Sunday 23 March)!
If you haven’t submitted your proposal yet, now is the time! We invite contributions exploring the many dimensions of sustainability in scholarly publishing, including financial, editorial, cultural, community, and environmental sustainability. Whether you want to share strategic insights, case studies, or practical experiences, there’s a format for you – choose from conference presentations, short vignettes, or posters.
The Association of European University Presses invites contributions for the upcoming conference Sustaining the Flow: Keeping the Pages Turning in Scholarly Publishing. This event will explore multiple dimensions of sustainability in scholarly publishing, focusing on strategies, challenges, and innovations for long-term resilience in the sector.
We welcome proposals addressing one or more of the following five key domains of sustainability in publishing:
Financial/Operational Sustainability (Business Models) Exploring effective and adaptable publishing workflows, sustainable revenue models, and staff capacity development, ensuring long-term operational health and resilience.
Editorial/Technological Sustainability Addressing long-term access to knowledge through high-quality peer review, rigorous editorial standards, lean and efficient workflows of content production (e.g. XML based) persistent access to scholarly works, and the maintenance of digital infrastructure, including archiving strategies like LOCKSS and Portico.
Cultural Sustainability Promoting diversity in scholarly communication and bibliodiversity in scholarly publications by supporting multilingualism, local scholarship, and inclusive representation of cultures and research perspectives, drawing on the concept of equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging.
Community Sustainability Fostering strong collaborative relationships with authors, reviewers, libraries, and academic institutions to build supportive publishing ecosystems through engagement, transparency, and equitable participation.
Environmental Sustainability Minimizing and disclosing the ecological impact of publishing activities, including the use of eco-friendly materials, energy-efficient and local production, waste reduction, and responsible supply chain management.
Contribution Formats
Participants are invited to submit proposals for:
Conference Contributions: Standard presentations (up to 15 minutes) followed by a Q&A session, suitable for sharing broader research, strategies, or policy reflections.
Vignettes: Short, focused case studies or specific insights (5 minutes), each followed by a brief Q&A, ideal for showcasing innovative projects or practical experiences.
Posters: Posters should go beyond the mere representation of a press and should refer to one of the five domains and how they are addressed at your press.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit a proposal including the following:
Title of your contribution
Abstract (max. 300 words)
Preferred presentation format (Conference Contribution, Vignette or Poster)
Name(s), affiliation(s), and contact details
Deadline for submission: 15 March 2025 (Extended till 23 March 2025) Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2025
With “Getting to Know Each Other,” we invite you to join us on a journey of discovery as we spotlight the individual presses that comprise our community. Through a couple of questions and a glimpse at their book covers that reflect the essence of each member, we aim to celebrate the unique contributions and perspectives that collectively form our association.
VUTIUM Press, publishing house if the Brno University of Technology, is second university press from the Czech Republic to join the AEUP. Our questions were answered by Jana Kořínková, director of the press. Thank you and welcome aboard!
Can you present your press history and mission?
VUTIUM Press is an academic publishing house of the Brno University of Technology (BUT), Czech Republic. Since its founding in 1996, it has focused mainly on publishing university textbooks and technical literature, but also on books on art and architecture. Thus, VUTIUM Press covers a wide range of topics that correspond to the focus of the university’s eight faculties and its three institutes. The authors are mainly in-house researchers, but we also publish or co-publish works of external authors or translations of publications coming from abroad. VUTIUM Press has also been producing and distributing the BUT quarterly, which once a year takes the form of an English yearbook called the News at BUT.
At present VUTIUM Press offers over eighty different titles, both printed and electronic, mostly in Czech but some of them also in English. We distribute books in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Over the years, our books have been awarded for their content and graphic design. Since 2021, four years in a row we have been successful in the Most Beautiful Czech Books graphic design contest.
Being an academic press operating under a technical university, our mission has also been to support publication activities of minor and highly specialized fields. Our motto could be to certain extent (and with certain level of exaggeration) summed up with the phrase: “We don’t popularize science, we do it”.
What are your expectations from AEUP and how do you wish to contribute to the future of institutional publishing in Europe?
We expect new opportunities in networking to keep up with the current trends in publishing but also learning from each other’s good practice and beware of the bad one. We are open to all possible exchange of experience. We value e-books but also believe that printed publications represent tangible heritage that will survive us, especially if they are well-designed.
As a multiple winner of awards for high-quality graphic design, VUTIUM Press can provide an expertise on successful collaboration with young graphic designers.
If you were to choose only three of all you published titles as representatives of your press, what titles would you choose?
We have chosen three recently published titles that illustrate the scope of our activities:
Zdeněk Smékal – Jaroslav Sklenář: 1D and 2D Analog, Discrete, and Digital Signal Processing (2023)
Marika Svobodová (ed.): Jan Ambrůz (2022)
Richard G. Budynas, J. Keith Nisbett: Konstruování strojních součástí (2023)
As we approach the end of another productive year, we’d like to take a moment to wish you a peaceful and restful holiday season. May this time bring you the opportunity to pause, reflect, and recharge for the exciting year ahead.
2024 has been a vibrant year for AEUP. We were proud to contribute to the Diamond Open Access movement with a presentation at the OPERAS conference and a poster at the Munin conference, which is now available for you to use. We also hosted an open board meeting at the BiblioCon conference, emphasing our interconnection with reserach libraries. These activities are a testament to the collaborative spirit and dedication of our community.
Looking ahead, we’re excited to announce that the 4th AEUP Conference will take place on 22–23 May 2025 in Vienna, Austria. Under the theme “Sustaining the Flow: Keeping the Pages Turning in Scholarly Publishing,” the conference will focus on strategies for sustainability and resilience in our dynamic field.
Stay tuned for further details in the coming months, including program highlights and registration information. For now, we encourage you to save the date and start planning to join us for this important event.
Thank you for being a vital part of our community. We look forward to continuing to work together in the new year.
The AEUP Board is pleased to announce that the fourth conference organised by the AEUP, “Sustaining the Flow: Keeping the Pages Turning in Scholarly Publishing,” will be held in the beautiful city of Vienna, Austria, on 22 and 23 May 2025, thanks to the generous invitation of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. This event will bring together you – leaders, innovators, and visionaries in the scholarly publishing community – to explore all the different kinds of sustainability and strategies for resilience. It’s the perfect opportunity to connect, exchange ideas, and shape the future of publishing.
Save the date and start planning your trip! We welcome representatives from institutional publishers, university presses, and generally anyone interested in the evolving landscape of scholarly publishing. Stay tuned for more information, including the programme and registration details. In the meantime, mark your calendars and spread the word – we look forward to seeing you in Vienna!
Even without our AEUP conference, 2024 has been a busy year for the Association. We have a new board member, a couple of new member presses and we have been quite active in the conferences, projects and consortia of our partners. The Annual Meeting is a place for you to hear more about what has been done in 2024, as well as the plans for 2025 and beyond. And there are quite a few plans! Please mark your calendars: this year’s AEUP Annual Meeting will take place online on Thursday 14 November from 14:00 to 16:00 CET. The link to the meeting and the detailed agenda will be in your mailboxes soon. The Board looks forward to seeing you!
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and open science.
This year, the conference is held from 26 to 28 November 2024 in Tromsø, Norway and streamed worldwide.
Registration for the Munin conference has been opened. Deadline for conference registration is 11 November, whereas deadline for hotel booking via the registration form (at conference prices) is 12th or 20th of October (depending on the hotel).
H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University (Ukraine), SSI “Institute of Education Content Modernization” (Ukraine), The University of Manchester (the United Kingdom), Revue internationale d’éducation de Sèvres (France), Sinop University (Turkey), The Ismail Qemali University of Vlorë (Albania), and Mid-West State University – UNICENTRO (Brazil) are organising III International Youth Scientific & Practical Conference in English LEARNING AND TEACHING in the World after the War.
The conference aims to connect undergraduates, master’s students, postgraduates (PhD students), doctoral students, young researchers, skilled scientists, and educators. Each participant will receive a free certificate of participation if he/she speaks online at the conference.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE? STEP 1: Write an abstract/poster that fits within one full page, adhering to the requirements and template specified by the conference. Send it via email to the conference committee at conferences.dtpel@gmail.com no later than October 15, 2024. Please note that all abstracts will be checked for plagiarism. STEP 2: Fill in the online registration form.
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is one of the world’s leading prizes dedicated to Arabic literature and culture. Since 2006, the Award has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding work by authors, translators, publishers, and organisations around the world.
The Award does not only recognise major literary and cultural achievements, but also aims to boost the publishing industry. 2018 saw the launch of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award’s Translation Grant to help produce more quality Arabic books that are translated, published and distributed outside the Arab World.
This year, the Award is receiving submissions across 10 categories: Literature, Translation, Contribution to the Development of Nations, Arab Culture in Other Languages, Children’s Literature, Editing of Arabic Manuscripts, Literary and Art Criticism, Young Author, Cultural Personality of the Year, and Publishing and Technology.
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, organised by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), is now welcoming submissions to its 19th edition from May until 1 September 2024.
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.
