To understand the benefit of an organization like the Association of American University Presses (AAUP), one has to understand the nature of university press or scholarly publishing: a university press is a non-profit publishing house affiliated with a university that is dedicated to publishing scholarly works.

University Press Publishing Versus Commercial Publishing

According to a distinction on AAUP’s website, “While commercial publishers focus on making money by publishing for popular audiences, the university press's mission is to publish work of scholarly, intellectual, or creative merit, often for a small audience of specialists.”

University presses realized early on that they could achieve their goals more easily by formalizing this cooperation and thus, the Association of American University Presses was born in 1937. Since 1959, AAUP has maintained a central office in New York City from where it operates. Today, the organization has 125 members consisting of nonprofit scholarly press, mainly but not necessarily located in North America.

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