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Amsterdam University Press has launched a new service for the academic world under the name of Pallas Publications. This service offers authors and institutions the opportunity to have their academic publications professionally produced, distributed and marketed.
Research and educational institutions have shown increasing interest in using a combination of different media and channels of distribution. In cooperation with the University Library of the University of Amsterdam, AUP is working on concepts whereby institutions based on the ‘Open Access’-model (in which they finance the digital dissemination of the information) can use a combination of digital storage and availability, known as Printing on Demand (POD).
In the meantime, AUP has been using POD in different cases as a production form. The advantages of POD are evident: there is no need for the expensive printing and storing of paper stock, which helps to lower investment costs. Books can be printed anywhere in the world, which brings down shipping costs. Orders can be placed at all times and places. A single copy can be printed and delivered with an invoice to any given address.
AUP has chosen a number of providers for its POD publications, including Pallas titles, depending on the channel of distribution:
- For the Dutch market, where most books are sold via bookstores, AUP cooperates with ‘Boek op Verzoek’ (BOV, or Books on Demand), initiated by Centraal Boekhuis. The greatest advantage here is that books printed in this way can be delivered to all bookshops in the Netherlands within 5 days.
- The digital book file entered in the 'Boek op Verzoek' system can be printed, bound, delivered and paid for in several places all over the world. This is possible through the cooperation of 'Boek op Verzoek' and Booksurge, the American company with a worldwide distribution network.
- In due course, all AUP publications will become available via several academic repositories. In cooperation with the Library of the University of Amsterdam, AUP is developing its own ‘Digital Academic Repository’ on the basis of the OAI-standard (Open Archives Initiative), which makes it possible to store publications in a digital PDF-file and to make them accessible to academic networks that use OAI search engines, the so called ‘Harvesters’. Furthermore, it will be possible to offer ‘repositories’ to the institutions whose titles have been published by AUP.
- It goes without saying that our POD publications (like the traditionally produced books) will be sold via bookselling websites, such as the Amazon, Alibris, BN.com, Half.com (ebay), Fetchbook.info, Bruna.nl, El Corte Ingles and many more.
- All English-language academic publications are now produced as e-books and made available via specialised distribution partners like netLibrary and Ebrary.
Finally, all of our books are available via this website. We offer authors and institutions the possibility of adding links to www.aup.nl to their own websites.
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