(17 Sep 2026) The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), a global organization of 169 mission-driven publishers, is proud to announce that the 15th annual University Press Week will be held Nov. 9 to 13.
University Press Week was launched in 2012 as part of the association’s 75th anniversary celebration. Every year since then, it has raised awareness about the work that university presses do to advance scholarship and trusted research around the world. U.S. President Jimmy Carter had proclaimed the first U.S. University Press Week in 1978. Carter welcomed the association’s plan for an annual event in 2012, saying, “The special character and contribution of university presses should be better known and better supported.”
This year’s University Press Week reading list includes 94 books and journals as well as three initiatives that embody this year’s Power UP theme. The week’s activities will also include dozens of in-person and virtual talks by university press authors and a tour of posts on member presses’ blogs that share insights into the work that university presses do.
The books and journals in this year’s reading list, curated by AUPresses members in nine countries, present thought-provoking concepts, inspiring ideas, and cutting-edge scholarship in a variety of topics — from politics and current events to the environment, education, Black studies, history, memoirs, Indigenous studies, poetry and fiction, and more.
More information can be found here.
