Mapping the Influence of University Presses

The Association of American University Presses is marking its 75th anniversary this year. To celebrate, the association declared November 11-17 University Press Week 2012, seeking to publicize “the extraordinary work of university presses and their many contributions to culture, the academy, and society.”
The AAUP’s current president, Peter J. Dougherty of Princeton University Press, has promoted the idea of “the global university press.” So it’s fitting that the association has created an interactive global “Influence Map” that shows the geographical range of individual presses’ publishing projects.
“We talk a lot about the impact of a university press—the books they publish, the scholars they publish, the readers,” said Brenna McLaughlin, the association’s director of marketing and communications. “We were trying to think of a way to show that.” The influence map helps reveal each press’s publishing “footprint.” Read more...