AEUP

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

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).

See the exciting programme and choose the workshops while registering.

(AEUP will have Margreet Nieborg, one of the vice-chairs there, in case you would like to connect).

Looking forward to seeing you in Tromsø!

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.

For further information please see the conference website.

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 19^th edition from May until 1 September 2024.

More information: https://www.zayedaward.ae/en/default.aspx

On 6 June, the Association of European University Presses (AEUP) hosted an open board meeting at BiblioCon 2024, the largest library trade fair in Hamburg, Germany. The event was organised for university presses and library-run publishing services from the D-A-CH region and aimed to identify strategies for gaining momentum through greater institutional embeddedness in research libraries.

Margo Bargheer, Chair of the AEUP Executive Board, opened the session by explaining why the meeting was held at BiblioCon. AEUP’s presence at this important conference underlines its commitment to fostering stronger relationships between university presses, promoting cooperation and sharing knowledge to achieve common goals in a dynamic publishing landscape.

We then discussed how AEUP connects and networks, AEUP’s involvement in international projects such as DIAMAS, CRAFT-OA and PALOMERA, contributing to the global discourse on scholarly publishing and fostering international collaboration.

In addition to its contribution to these projects, AEUP organises ad-hoc webinars and a biennial conference. The next one will take place in May 2025. In the run-up to the 2025 International Conference, AEUP is seeking input from participants on key issues such as sustainability in the context of business models. This collaborative approach ensures that the conference addresses the most pressing issues facing university presses today.

The final part of the meeting was dedicated to networking and getting to know each other. This fostered a sense of community and cooperation among university presses and library-run publishing services. One goal of the meeting was to explore how university presses and library publishing services can leverage existing library network organisational structures to improve operations. Libraries are well versed in building consortia to acquire content, a practice that has proven beneficial in securing better terms and enabling smaller players to access resources they otherwise couldn’t. By applying this concept to publishing services, libraries can use their consortia memberships and networks to create shared services and leverage specific expertise.

The AEUP invites all BiblioCon delegates, especially those responsible for or planning to offer publishing services within their libraries, as well as smaller scholarly presses, to join its efforts to shape scholarly communication in Europe.

With the New Year just over a month away, you may be starting to think about which professional events and conferences you will be attending this year. To help you keep track and make your decisions easier, we do our best to keep you up to date on Conferences & other events of interest page.
Of the upcoming events we recommend you to visit a workshop “The road towards Diamond Open Access” taking place on 12th of April at the Swansea University, United Kingdom. The workshop will address institutional leaders interested in learning approaches and strategies for supporting non-commercial, scholar-led publishing initiatives in their institutions. Elements for future recommendations and guidelines on Diamond Open Access for institutional leaders will also be used as a basis to steer discussions. The outcomes of the workshop will help the DIAMAS project partners to further develop policy advocacy and capacity building activities and will support EUA in implementing its Open Science Agenda 2025.
Afterwards, you will have the opportunity to meet AEUP representatives who will present the AEUP perspective on the transition to Open Access at the Operas Conference in Zadar, Croatia. The conference will take place from 24 to 26 April and we are looking forward to see you there!

(If you know about a conference or event that is not listed and should be, please let us know at secretary@aeup.eu. Thank you!)

The year 2023 – a year full of new experiences and productive work – has come to an end. Now, it is time to relax and spend some time with your family and friends. The AEUP would like to wish you a peaceful holiday season and we look forward to more creative collaborations in the New Year.