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16–17 May 2023, Tallinn/Tartu, Estonia

Share your insights and challenges around institutional publishing and contribute to the upcoming 3rd AEUP International conference. Our conference aims not only to discuss how current rapid scientific, technological, political and security developments affect institutional publishing but mainly to provide a platform to do so in a very profound, personal and un-nervous way. 

Since the last AEUP conference, the world has experienced a global pandemic and a war raging on the borders of some of our members’ home countries, the likes of which Europe hasn’t seen in 70 years. But it is not only in terms of international relations that we are seeing these nervous times and major changes. We are also currently living in a time when technological changes are so rapid that they are sometimes difficult to keep up with.

Let’s take this opportunity to talk about how institutional publishing can best operate in these nervous times. How can we use the current situation to our advantage, how can we learn from it and how can we withstand the never-ending changes that are coming our way? 

We will have all the time we need to focus on the topics that worry us, for in-depth discussions, for profound networking with peers,  and for a lot of other extra-exchange… 

Program overview

• Day 0 Monday 15th May (Pre-conference satellite event)

A “walkshop”: “Reflecting on academic publishing in the historic urban environment of the Tallinn old town” rounded with networking and dinner. 

• Day 1 Tuesday 16th May 

Registration & Welcome

Keynote: Frances Pinter

Presentations & Discussions

Conference dinner

Topic headings for Day 1:

Scientific integrity in institutional publishing

We will discuss questions such as How open are we? How open is it safe to be in nervous times? How to maintain rectitude, publishing ethics, bibliodiversity in challenging times? How to cope with ethics and integrity infringements? How should we deal with AI in publishing, is it a threat to research integrity? How to ensure the best possible peer-review?

Balancing your publishing program with your profile and mission

We will deal with issues such as independence vs. interference (of funders, parent institutions and others), editorial decisions and integrity or policies of different stakeholders (publishers, funders, universities, readers).

• Day 2 Wednesday 17th May

Keynote: Pierre Mounier 

Presentations & Discussions

Organised transfer to Tartu, Estonia

Topic headings for Day 2:

How to reach technical maturity

We will look at technical aspects of publishing such as persistent identifiers & platforms as well as learn how ongoing projects and initiatives on a European level can help smaller presses.

Visibility, networking and dissemination in the time of global crises

We will discuss the complex issue of visibility from different points of view: What does it mean to be an international publisher? How to get the content to the readers the most effective way and how to ensure that institutional publishing remains financially viable and sustainable? What challenges do publishers face in terms of dissemination?

• Day 3 Thursday 18th May (Post-conference satellite event in Tartu) 

Visit of the University of Tartu Press, the largest academic press in Estonia

Discussions about library publishing and other topics at the University of Tartu Library

Guidelines: 

We accept contributions in the form of a presentation (20–30 minutes) or a “vignette” (short case study, 5–10 minutes). Please send us the title and a summary of your presentation (around 3000 characters) or vignette (around 1000 characters) to board@aeup.eu until 9 April. Please indicate to which of the four topics your contribution belongs. Your contribution is eligible if you are a member of AEUP, a member of a national/regional organisation for university presses or a recognised institutional publisher. We reserve the right to reject contributions from commercial publishers or service providers, especially if the eligible contributions already exceed the available time slots in the conference.  

We are very much looking forward to meeting all of you there! 

With the pandemic interruption, it has been four years since the 2nd AEUP Conference in Brno, Czech Republic and we cannot wait to see you all once again in person! So please save the date for the 3rd AEUP Conference:

This year the AEUP conference “Publishing in Nervous Times” will take place in Tallinn, Estonia on May 16–17, 2023.

More information to come very soon on our website and social media.

Dear AEUP members and friends,

the AEUP Board wish you all the best for the new year 2023. May your projects be successful, your colleagues inspiring, your workplace safe and cosy and your work-life balance accomplished!

See you at the 3^rd AEUP conference in Tallin, Estonia. (More information coming soon.)

Happy new year!

We are living in nervous times that have a strong impact on the scientific system and scientific publishing. As institutional publishers, we have to cope with this situation and find our position vis-à-vis the economic, political and environmental challenges facing society as a whole, our communities, patrons and institutions. At the same time, the growing trend towards Open Access and Open Science gives new meaning to institutional publishing and poses new technical and organisational challenges for the respective publishing units. AEUP is trying to find out more about the situation of its members in order to identify topics for future events and networking activities.

We need your help to shape upcoming workshops according to your needs and wishes. The survey will be anonymous. Please answer the following questions no later than Wednesday 16 November 2022.
We thank you in advance.

We invite all members and friends of AEUP to our online annual meeting where we will discuss the present and future of institutional publishing in Europe.

This year’s annual meeting is planned for Thursday, November 17th, 15:00–17:00 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.

The agenda will follow soon.

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!