Associated University Presses
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Associated University Presses (AUP) is a publishing company based in the United States
, formed and operated as a consortium
of several American university press
es. AUP was first established and incorporated in 1966, with the first titles bearing the AUP imprint appearing from 1968. There were five constituent members in the AUP consortium— Bucknell University Press
, University of Delaware Press
, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
, Lehigh University Press
, and Susquehanna University Press. Each member university press maintains its own imprint
and editorial control over their published titles, while book production and distribution (both national and international) is the responsibility of AUP.
AUP is a wholly owned trading name of Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp., the private company established in 1969 and incorporated
in the state of Delaware
as the corporate vehicle for the enterprise.
Over 3500 individual titles have been issued by AUP under the imprints of the constituent presses since its foundation, representing a wide cross-section of academic and scholarly fields. there were approximately 120 new titles being issued per year. AUP also acts as a distributor of publications from a number of institutes and organizations, such as the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies and the Folger Shakespeare Library
.
in the preceding decade. Yoseloff left this position with Penn Press in order to set up AUP as a publishing co-venture targeted at small- to medium-sized academic publishers. He devised an operating model whereby the central AUP office retained responsibility for business operations, distribution, printing
and publishing costs, while the member presses each exercised their own control over editorial decisions, selections and title acquisitions.
The first university press to join with AUP was the university press at Fairleigh Dickinson University
, New Jersey
. The FDU Press had been created in 1967 and became an AUP member shortly thereafter. This was followed by Bucknell University
's press, founded in 1968 and joined with AUP the same year. University of Delaware
's press signed in 1975, and Susquehanna University
press in 1981. Lehigh University
's press was established and joined in 1985.
Yoseloff retired from running AUP in 2000, and was succeeded in the role by his son, Julien. He died on 24 December 2007 aged 94, after a career in publishing spanning six decades.
Julien Yoseloff retired in 2010, and Associated University Presses ceased publishing new titles. Bucknell University Press
, University of Delaware Press
, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
and Lehigh University Press
began a new distribution agreement with Rowman & Littlefield
, while Susquehanna University Press ceased operations.
AUP publishes titles almost exclusively in the humanities
research fields, with the bulk of its titles—some three-quarters of its accumulated publication backlist—in the sectors in literature
, literary theory
and literary criticism
. The remainder have been in fields such as history
, art history
, and regional cultural studies
.
Prominent academics whose works have been published by AUP include the Shakespearean biographer and scholar Samuel Schoenbaum
, and Princeton professor of Japanese literature
, Earl Miner
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, formed and operated as a consortium
Consortium
A consortium is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations or governments with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal....
of several American university press
University press
A university press is an academic, nonprofit publishing house that is typically affiliated with a large research university, and publishes work that has been reviewed by scholars in the field. It produces mainly scholarly works...
es. AUP was first established and incorporated in 1966, with the first titles bearing the AUP imprint appearing from 1968. There were five constituent members in the AUP consortium— Bucknell University Press
Bucknell University Press
Bucknell University Press was founded in 1968 as part of a consortium operated by Associated University Presses and currently partnered with Rowman & Littlefield. Since then it has published more than 1000 titles in the humanities and social and biological sciences...
, University of Delaware Press
University of Delaware Press
The University of Delaware Press is a publishing house and a department of the University of Delaware in the United States, whose main campus is at Newark, Delaware, where the University Press is also based....
, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press is a publishing house under the operation and oversight of Fairleigh Dickinson University, the largest private university in New Jersey, USA. FDU Press was established in 1967 by the university's founder Peter Sammartino, in cooperation with the publisher...
, Lehigh University Press
Lehigh University Press
Lehigh University Press is the publishing house of Lehigh University. Lehigh's university press was a member of the Associated University Presses consortium; other members included Bucknell University Press, University of Delaware Press, Susquehanna University Press and Fairleigh Dickinson...
, and Susquehanna University Press. Each member university press maintains its own imprint
Imprint
In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...
and editorial control over their published titles, while book production and distribution (both national and international) is the responsibility of AUP.
AUP is a wholly owned trading name of Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp., the private company established in 1969 and incorporated
Incorporation (business)
Incorporation is the forming of a new corporation . The corporation may be a business, a non-profit organisation, sports club, or a government of a new city or town...
in the state of Delaware
Delaware
Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...
as the corporate vehicle for the enterprise.
Over 3500 individual titles have been issued by AUP under the imprints of the constituent presses since its foundation, representing a wide cross-section of academic and scholarly fields. there were approximately 120 new titles being issued per year. AUP also acts as a distributor of publications from a number of institutes and organizations, such as the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies and the Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library
The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period...
.
History
Associated University Presses was founded in 1966 by the publisher Thomas Yoseloff, a former director of University of Pennsylvania PressUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
The University of Pennsylvania Press is a university press affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
in the preceding decade. Yoseloff left this position with Penn Press in order to set up AUP as a publishing co-venture targeted at small- to medium-sized academic publishers. He devised an operating model whereby the central AUP office retained responsibility for business operations, distribution, printing
Printing
Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....
and publishing costs, while the member presses each exercised their own control over editorial decisions, selections and title acquisitions.
The first university press to join with AUP was the university press at Fairleigh Dickinson University
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private university founded as a junior college in 1942. It now has several campuses located in New Jersey, Canada, and the United Kingdom.-Description:...
, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
. The FDU Press had been created in 1967 and became an AUP member shortly thereafter. This was followed by Bucknell University
Bucknell University
Bucknell University is a private liberal arts university located alongside the West Branch Susquehanna River in the rolling countryside of Central Pennsylvania in the town of Lewisburg, 30 miles southeast of Williamsport and 60 miles north of Harrisburg. The university consists of the College of...
's press, founded in 1968 and joined with AUP the same year. University of Delaware
University of Delaware
The university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...
's press signed in 1975, and Susquehanna University
Susquehanna University
Susquehanna University is a liberal arts college in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, United States, north of the state capital, Harrisburg.-Academics:...
press in 1981. Lehigh University
Lehigh University
Lehigh University is a private, co-educational university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the United States. It was established in 1865 by Asa Packer as a four-year technical school, but has grown to include studies in a wide variety of disciplines...
's press was established and joined in 1985.
Yoseloff retired from running AUP in 2000, and was succeeded in the role by his son, Julien. He died on 24 December 2007 aged 94, after a career in publishing spanning six decades.
Julien Yoseloff retired in 2010, and Associated University Presses ceased publishing new titles. Bucknell University Press
Bucknell University Press
Bucknell University Press was founded in 1968 as part of a consortium operated by Associated University Presses and currently partnered with Rowman & Littlefield. Since then it has published more than 1000 titles in the humanities and social and biological sciences...
, University of Delaware Press
University of Delaware Press
The University of Delaware Press is a publishing house and a department of the University of Delaware in the United States, whose main campus is at Newark, Delaware, where the University Press is also based....
, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press is a publishing house under the operation and oversight of Fairleigh Dickinson University, the largest private university in New Jersey, USA. FDU Press was established in 1967 by the university's founder Peter Sammartino, in cooperation with the publisher...
and Lehigh University Press
Lehigh University Press
Lehigh University Press is the publishing house of Lehigh University. Lehigh's university press was a member of the Associated University Presses consortium; other members included Bucknell University Press, University of Delaware Press, Susquehanna University Press and Fairleigh Dickinson...
began a new distribution agreement with Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books and journals for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns a book distributor, National Book Network...
, while Susquehanna University Press ceased operations.
AUP publishes titles almost exclusively in the humanities
Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
research fields, with the bulk of its titles—some three-quarters of its accumulated publication backlist—in the sectors in literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
, literary theory
Literary theory
Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. However, literary scholarship since the 19th century often includes—in addition to, or even instead of literary theory in the strict sense—considerations of...
and literary criticism
Literary criticism
Literary criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals...
. The remainder have been in fields such as history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, art history
Art history
Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...
, and regional cultural studies
Cultural studies
Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its historical foundations, conflicts, and defining traits. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural...
.
Prominent academics whose works have been published by AUP include the Shakespearean biographer and scholar Samuel Schoenbaum
Samuel Schoenbaum
Samuel Schoenbaum was a leading 20th century Shakespearean biographer and scholar.Born in New York, Schoenbaum taught at Northwestern University from 1953 to 1975, serving for the last four years of this period as the Frank Bliss Snyder Professor of English Literature. He later taught at the City...
, and Princeton professor of Japanese literature
Japanese literature
Early works of Japanese literature were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. Indian literature also had an influence through the diffusion of Buddhism in Japan...
, Earl Miner
Earl Miner
Earl Roy Miner was a professor at Princeton University, and a noted scholar of Japanese literature and especially Japanese poetry; he was also active in early English literature...
.