By Amanda Karby and Charlotte Roh
At the 2025 AUPresses Virtual Annual Meeting, we presented “Implementing DEIA Training for Editors in a Library Publishing Program,” an overview of the University of California (UC) eScholarship open access journals publishing program and the launch of training webinars for our editors, beginning with an overview of DEIA issues in scholarly publishing.
Continue reading Implementing DEIA Training for Editors in a Library Publishing ProgramBy Elizabeth Demers and Jenny Keegan
At the 2025 AUPresses Virtual Annual Meeting, the “Trade Books 201: Secrets of Creating a Thriving Gift Books List” session, designed for university press professionals who publish or would like to publish gift books, elicited enormous interest. In it, panelists Jenny Keegan (acquisitions editor, Louisiana State University Press), Stephen Hull (director, University of New Mexico Press), and Natalie O’Neal (senior acquisitions editor, University of Kentucky Press) discussed the “trade secrets” involved in planning a gift books list from snout to tail—or, from market research, audience, and P&Ls, through acquisitions editorial, production, marketing, and sales.
Continue reading Creating a Thriving Gift Books ListUniversity-Based Publishing Futures (UBPF) is a multi-community coalition of professionals who work at university presses, library publishers, and other academy-affiliated programs that support the infrastructure of scholarly publishing. The group recently offered an update on its activities since its founding last year:
AUPresses is proud to be a cofounder and supporter of this initiative, along with the Library Publishing Coalition. If your press, library, or organization is not yet a signatory, you can become one by filling out the Organizational Support Form.
The Association of University Presses was pleased to award a number of grants to support attendance at its 2024 Annual Meeting in Montréal, Quebec. The Next Steps Grant, covering registration fees, were awarded to two attendees who each have more than three years total experience in scholarly publishing and have not attended an in-person Annual Meeting in the past.
Grant recipients Caroline McKusick and Sarah Rous offered the following brief descriptions of their experiences.
Continue reading Observations from the 2024 Next Steps Grant RecipientsThe Association of University Presses (AUPresses) was pleased to award a number of grants to support attendance at its 2024 Annual Meeting in Montréal, Quebec. The Early Career Grant, covering registration fees as well as up to $1,000 in travel expenses, were awarded to seven attendees who each have more than six months and less than three years total experience in scholarly publishing and have not attended an in-person Annual Meeting in the past.
Grant recipients James Chan, Via Justine De Fant, Rachel Laney, India Miraglia, Amanda Muscente, Kristin Rawlings, and Andrew Webster offered the following brief descriptions of their experiences.
Continue reading Observations from the 2024 Early Career Grant RecipientsThe Association of University Presses was pleased to award a number of grants to support attendance at its 2024 Annual Meeting in Montréal, Quebec. The Equity, Justice, Inclusion, and Belonging (EJIB) Grant, covering registration fees as well as up to $1,000 in travel expenses, were awarded to five attendees who each identify as a member of an underrepresented group within the Association.
Grant recipients Cabrini Cruz, Kathie Jiang, Jess Merrill, Carah Naseem, and Melissa Yamaguchi offered the following brief descriptions of their experiences.
Continue reading Observations from the 2024 Equity, Justice, Inclusion, and Belonging Grant Recipients