15 July 2015 Peter Berkery Executive Director

 139 Members ◦ 95 US, with university affiliation ◦ 19 US, with other institutional affiliation ◦ 10 Canadian (Anglophone) ◦ 15 International  Founded in 1947  8 staff  Members must meet eligibility criteria: ◦ Peer review ◦ Commitment to Mission ◦ Sufficient program size

 Initially, attempt to accelerate learning curve  Evolved into comprehensive conversations about the state of UP publishing  Meet with (varies with each visit): ◦ Press directors ◦ Press staff ◦ Administrators ◦ Editorial boards ◦ Librarians  81 visits on 4 continents so far

 Trick question -- there is no typical member!  Varies by: ◦ Size ◦ Publishing “Mix” ◦ Public or Private  “system” presses ◦ Funding Mechanisms & Expectations

 Academic Monographs ◦ “By scholars, for scholars”  Crossover Monographs  Series & Edited Volumes  Journals  Regional ◦ Cultural and natural history  Literature ◦ Especially in translation  Poetry  Textbooks

 Some Generalizations: ◦ Generally Humanities & Social Sciences ◦ Generally Long-form (fka “books”!) ◦ Respected for Curating Discipline-specific Lists  Some Absolutes: ◦ Editorial Process:  Scrupulous peer review  Comparatively extensive editorial & mss development  AAUP membership prerequisite ◦ Commitment to “mission”

 Advocacy/Visibility  Financial Model Under Stress: ◦ Open Access ◦ Channel Disruption ◦ Shifting Library Budgets  Scale (or lack thereof): ◦ Technology ◦ Production ◦ Sales & Marketing  Changes in Promotion & Tenure Process  Challenges to Peer Review

 AAUP’s New Strategic Plan  Research Activities ◦ Largely Mellon Funded ◦ Intended to Build Capabilities Around:  Consortial activity  Bringing UP scholarship to the Open Web  Increasing Our Global Focus

Build membership and foster internal and external collaborations ◦ Celebrate existing collaborations among members ◦ Increase outreach to:  international publishers and associations  libraries and their organizations  scholarly societies  like-minded publishers ◦ Facilitate scaled collaborations to decrease costs and increase capabilities ◦ Find points of common interest with like-minded associations

Increase the visibility of our members and their work through engagement with parent institutions, funders, policymakers, and the reading public ◦ Promote the value of members to the academy and the world ◦ Equip members to communicate our value to local stakeholders ◦ Promote increased funding for higher education and research ◦ Partner with funding organizations to explore new financial models

Conduct research that provides data and analyses to support advocacy and to inform publishing operations and new business models ◦ Collect, analyze, and disseminate AAUP statistical surveys ◦ Facilitate selective environmental scans to identify trends, gaps, and options for new business opportunities and models ◦ Find and disseminate compelling data points and at-a-glance facts and statistics to advocate for presses

Provide professional development leadership training ◦ Inventory and affirm best practices ◦ Promote cross-member education ◦ Develop programs and services that promote essential skills and leadership development

 Web-based discoverability engine ◦ nap.edu/academy-scope/  Increase visibility among associations representing Higher Education constituencies  Increase visibility among government agencies responsible for Humanities funding  Expand membership categories  International sub rights solution  Infrastructure: new website & member collaboration hub  Research, research, research

 Recent Mellon Grants – building capabilities: ◦ Expand existing distribution business into publishing services platform (UNC Press) ◦ Portal for art & architectural history content (Yale U Press) ◦ Peer review for born-digital content (Stanford U Press) ◦ Open access digital monographs (U California Press) ◦ Mixed-media digital publishing platform (WVU) ◦ Manage Monographic Source Materials (U Michigan Press) ◦ Iterative Monographs Platoform (U Minnesota Press) ◦ Networked Monographs Infrastructure (NYU Press)  Understanding Monograph Costs  Digitizing Backlists

 Networks of Collaboration ◦ Exchange information, ideas, best practices globally ◦ Ex: sharing information on peer review practices  Networks of Advocacy ◦ Raise awareness of increasingly global policy discussions ◦ Ex: freedom-to-read, anti-piracy, open access  Networks of Commerce ◦ Increase ability to transact business globally ◦ Ex: global sub-rights database