Associated University Presses

Associated University Presses

Type	private
Industry	academic publishing
Genre	humanities, literature and literary criticism
Founded	1966 (1966)
Founder	Thomas Yoseloff
Headquarters	Plainsboro, NJ, USA
Key people	Thomas Yoseloff president 1966–2000 Julien Yoseloff director 1966–
Products	books
Services	book publishing & distribution
Revenue	US$300,000 (2015 est.)
Owner	Julien Yoseloff
Number of employees	2
Parent	Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp.
Website	www.aupresses.com
Footnotes / references MANTA profile, Dun & Bradstreet

Associated University Presses (AUP) is a publishing company based in the United States, formed and operated as a consortium of several American university presses. AUP was established in 1966, with the first titles published through AUP appearing in 1968. There were five constituent members in the AUP consortium— Bucknell University Press, University of Delaware Press, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Lehigh University Press, and Susquehanna University Press. Each member university press maintained its own imprint and editorial control over their published titles, while book production and distribution (both national and international) was the responsibility of AUP.

AUP is a wholly owned trading name of Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp., a private company established in 1969 and first incorporated in the state of Delaware, later reincorporated in New Jersey.

Over 4000 individual titles were issued by AUP under the imprints of the constituent presses, representing a cross-section of academic and scholarly fields. AUP also acted as a distributor of publications from a number of institutes and organizations, such as the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Associated University Presses was founded in 1966 by the publisher Thomas Yoseloff, a former director of the University of Pennsylvania Press in the preceding decade. Yoseloff set up AUP as a publishing co-venture targeted at small- to medium-sized academic publishers. He devised a unique operating model whereby the central AUP office retained responsibility for business operations, distribution, printing and publishing costs, while the member presses each exercised their own control over editorial decisions, selections and title acquisitions.