The crowdfunding campaign to support Ukrainian editorial staff went beyond its goals with more than 20.000 euros. It is enough to provide 11 scholarships to Ukrainian journals.  

Interviews with editors that SUES will support.

SUES offers help through mentoring, support towards DOAJ/DOAB inclusion and small scholarships to support day-to-day operations. The money collected will be divided into lump sums of 1500 euros for each journal or publisher. More about the evaluation process to be found here. 

“The Scientific Committee expresses its awe for the diversity and quality of Ukrainian scholarly journals. We see the current SUES actions as a temporary measure and a pilot programme for a more sustainable action. We call upon the European Commission and ministries of science of the European countries to provide funds for a more comprehensive support programme.”

SUES Scientific Committee

In the long term, the project aims at strengthening the connections and knowledge exchange to ensure the international presence and visibility of Ukrainian scholarly outputs.

Thanks to your contribution, Ukrainian editors will be able to continue to disseminate knowledge through the scholarly publications in Ukraine. As any other country, the Ukrainian society needs to have access to knowledge to strive, create, communicate, and prepare for a better future.

Thank you to everyone who donated! Please follow the SUES project for updates.

The invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 has heavily impacted scientific activity and the production of knowledge in this country. The extension of the war zone across the country, and the destruction of civilian infrastructure has not sparedhigher education and research facilities. The Kharkiv University building was hit by a missile in the first days of the war, and the academic community struggles to continue working.

While, thanks to different programs such as Science for Ukraine, support has been given up to now to Ukrainian researchers in all disciplines, this support is rarely extended to other types of personnel working alongside researchers in knowledge production, such as librarians, editorial staff, technicians and administrative staff at universities, research institutions and infrastructures.

SUES – Supporting Ukrainian Editorial Staff – is an initiative from several European organisations in scholarly communication to meet this additional requirement. This initiative needs your support now:

https://wemakeit.com/projects/support-to-ukrainian-editors?locale=en

If you decide to help, you can either make a donation and/or share the project with your network and/or you can donate some of your English-language publications as incentives for those who donate. Please contact the board for more information.

Thank you in advance for supporting this project!

Since December 2021, the AEUP has a new member press from Târgu Mureș, Romania. The press operates under the official name “University Press Publishing House, within the George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology from Târgu Mureș“. We are happy to have you on board and we are looking forward to cooperate with you!

If you would like to become AEUP member too, please check our Membership criteria or contact directly the board@aeup.eu.

Dear AEUP members and friends,
 
for this holiday season, we wish you a well-deserved rest and time well-spent with your loved ones. Once again, this year has been tough – but we have decided to take the complicated situation as an opportunity to focus inwards and improve the operation of AEUP. So, after we’ve eaten all the cookies and seen all our favourite Christmas movies, we’ll be looking forward to meeting you on our common path towards better academic publishing in Europe.
 
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  

Our lesson from the last year is that we should take advantage of all the possibilities of the virtual world. That‘s why we are going to hold our following annual meetings online. 

This years annual meeting is planned for Thursday, November 25th, 11:00–12:00 CET on Zoom.

All members will receive the Zoom link via email. If you are a member / would like to participate and don’t have the link, please let us know at board@aeup.eu.

You may still bring tea and cookies! We are looking forward to seeing you!

Next week, October 25–31, is the International Open Access Week. The AEUP strongly supports open access (as long as it is sustainable!) so we do recommend to participate. You can find the list of events on the Open Access Week website or contact your local university library – they will know for sure!

In consequence of last year’s Covid-19 situation, the AEUP board has recently decided that from now on, the annual members meetings will happen online. We should take advantage of the (rare) opportunities to meet in person to really network and discuss current issues and challenges of academic publishing.

After few years of good service, the AEUP board was recently renewed. Two of the members who worked actively for a long time towards our common goal resigned from the board. Thank you, Isabella Meinecke and Regine Tobias for your great contribution to AEUP!

The board was strengthened by a new member, Arūnas Gudinavičius, managing director at Vilnius University Press and Associate Professor at the Department of Digital Cultures and Communication, Faculty of Communication, Vilnius University. Welcome aboard, Arūnas!

If you wish to contact Arūnas directly, his email address is arunas.gudinavicius@kf.vu.lt. Otherwise please contact the board at board@aeup.eu.

May this new year bring you new zeal for doing what we all do best – books!

We wish you happy and healthy 2021.

An online satellite event of the OASPA Conference 2020, the Multilingualism Workshop, will address topics such as balance between localization and globalization, translation and translators, or linguistic hegemony and dominance in multilingual settings.

The workshop will be opened by a contribution on the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in scholarly communication; many other talks will follow, dealing with various aspects of multilingualism as well as presentation of big projects that aim to promote multilingualism and diversity as such (OPERAS, TRIPLE).

A number of expert speakers from all over the world, Europe (Finland, France Poland, and Portugal) as well as Argentina, Canada and Japan, will contribute to insightful discussions and straight to the point contributions.

The registration is still open! Check the finalised agenda here.