Participants: Arūnas Gudinavičius, Matevž Rudolf, Christina Lenz
Moderator: Christoph Bläsi
Summary:
The panel will tackle the question why publishing academic work in small languages matters and deal with an issue where is the place for academic publisher in the global scientific publishing landscape.
Description:
Academic publishing is a hybrid: on one hand, there are a few multi-billion international corporations that publish majority of scientific papers in English. Yet, on the other hand all around the globe, there exist a set of smaller university presses that publish academic and scientific books and journals in their local languages and (sometimes) in English. How do these two publishing ecosystems interact? What kind of future is there in regional/local academic publishing?
Arūnas Gudinavičius, managing director of Vilnius University Press, started as a developer of multimedia textbooks, worked with geo-information technologies, now in academic publishing for almost 10 years.
Matevž Rudolf (1980) is head of the University of Ljubljana Press, where he coordinates the publishing activities of the 26 faculties and academies of the University of Ljubljana. Issuing approximately 200 new publications and 51 scientific journals (more than 120 volumes) annually, makes University of Ljubljana Press one of the largest academic publishers in Slovenia and Central Europe.
Christina Lenz, Managing Editor of books at Stockholm University Press (SUP). She has been an editor of books since 1995, and was one of the founders of SUP in 2013. Christina had the role as secretary in the Board of Association of European University presses (AEUP) 2017-2020.
Christoph Bläsi is professor for book / publishing studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany). Among his current main focusses are AI in publishing and – in the context of Aldus Up project (Creative Europe) – the harmonization of reading surveys.