Amsterdam University Press Response to COVID-19

We at Amsterdam University Press continue to take measures to support our colleagues, business partners, authors, and readers as the Coronavirus pandemic continues. If you need to get in touch with any questions or concerns, please do send us an email.

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Measures in Place

Home-working

With staff based in the Netherlands, the UK and the US, like many, the majority of us continue to work from home. Even before the start of the pandemic, home-working was not an entirely new experience for some of us and we're fortunate that most operational aspects of the Press continue to allow for this type of flexibility. While our main telephone number is contactable, we recommend emailing to ensure that you reach the correct member of staff swiftly. Find our email addresses here: https://www.aup.nl/en/about/staff.

Important Update: Global Supply Chain Disruption

The AUP print book programme is affected by the widely reported global supply chain issues and localised pandemic-related disruption. There are two crucial factors involved: the worldwide paper shortage and staffing shortage in the supply chain.

With the increase of online orders during the pandemic, paper is being prioritised for boxes and packaging materials, but sadly not for producing books. In the world of distribution, Amazon is also taking priority over practically all other suppliers. On top of this, there are extreme staffing shortages in retail and distribution services that are struggling to hire warehouse and transportation workers.

Our printing and distribution partners are working around the clock to try and smooth out these issues and the resulting delays. There is an approximate 8-12 week delay from the point that a book is sent to the printer to worldwide availability.

It is important to realise that none of this applies to our eBook programme. We are ensuring that eBooks continue to publish as scheduled.

These are exceptional times, and we thank you for your patience and understanding.

Further links

Books overboard! Supply chain headaches leave publishing all at sea (February 2022)
BookBrunch: IPS UK MD and Senior Vice President, Content Acquisition International, Ingram Content Group, David Taylor on distribution disruption (October 2021).
New York Times: Book Publishing Supply Chain Delays (October 2021).
Vox: The great book shortage of 2021, explained (October 2021):

Review Copies, Coronavirus and Brexit

COVID-19

The global supply chain is under considerable pressure due to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like most publishers, the AUP print book programme is experiencing disruption from these widely reported issues. While we are sending hard copies to reviewers who request them, please be aware of delays, particularly in the USA, of approximately 6-8 weeks.

Brexit

The second ongoing challenge that publishers such as AUP face is Brexit. We are constantly working on our strategy to get hardcopies from the UK to the EU without charge to reviewers, but with the advice regularly changing and the varying customs practices across the territory, this is not something that AUP or our distributors can guarantee. If a journal has commissioned a reviewer who requires a physical copy, please make this known in your email request so that we can closely monitor the delivery of the review copy and reimburse the reviewer if necessary.

Keep an eye on our review copy policy here: https://www.aup.nl/en/sales/review-or-inspection-copy.

(Virtual) Conferences

Last year, the majority of conferences were either cancelled, postponed or transitioned to virtual environments. In 2022, this trend continues and we are anticipating that most conferences will continue in a hybrid or virtual format. Last year, we successfully moved to exhibiting our books virtually with a discount and started to collaborate with conference organisers and make use of their offers with virtual exhibit features. We will soon be finalising the list of virtual conferences we will be attending and exhibiting at this year. Keep an eye on this page, on social media and our newsletters.

News and Further Support

Amsterdam University Press Socially Distanced OA Reading List

We have collected some of our Open Access books and journal articles for a Socially Distanced OA Reading List on subjects that are informative and related to the world's ongoing collective experiences of the pandemic:

Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death, Monica H. Green (ed.) (Arc Humanities Press, 2015) - Download
Leeuwenhoek's Legatees and Beijerinck's Beneficiaries: A History of Medical Virology in The Netherlands, Gerard van Doornum, Ton van Helvoort, and Neeraja Sankaran (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) - Download
Body, Capital, and Screens: Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century, Christian Bonah and Anja Laukötter (eds) (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) - Download
Digital Media Practices in Households: Kinship through Data, Larissa Hjorth et al. (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) - Download
"De voor- en nadelen van verplicht thuiswerken tijdens de lockdown", Marc van Veldhoven & Marco van Gelder. In Tijdschrift voor HRM, 2020, 23-3, pp. 66-90(25) - Lees online
Data Visualization in Society, Martin Engebretsen, Helen Kennedy (eds) (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) - Download
Screen Space Reconfigured, Susanne Saether, Synne Tollerud Bull (eds) (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) - Download
Mobile Mapping: Space, Cartography and the Digital, Clancy Wilmott (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) - Download
Engines of Order: A Mechanology of Algorithmic Techniques, Bernhard Rieder (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) - Download
The Politics of Social Media Manipulation, Richard Rogers, Sabine Niederer (eds) (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) - Download
Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol, Sara Polak, Daniel Trottier (eds) (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) - Download
Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece, Haris Malamidis (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) - Download
The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication, Aidan McGarry, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Olu Jenzen, and Umut Korkut (eds) (Amsterdam University Press, 2019) - Download
The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture, René Glas, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Joost Raessens, Imar de Vries (eds) (Amsterdam University Press, 2019) - Download
Emerging Socialities in 21st Century Healthcare, Bernhard Hadolt and Anita Hardon (eds) (Amsterdam University Press, 2017) - Download

#RaiseUP Enter the Ghost: Haunted Media Ecologies by Paula Albuquerque

An AUP blog post written by Paula Albuquerque for University Press Week 2020, on her current art project exploring surveillance, Covid-19 and the bias inherent in datasets that train AI systems. Read the piece here.

Contact us

For general queries please get in touch with us through the email address most relevant to your inquiry as listed here. Alternatively, a complete list of AUP staff can be found here.

Updated: February 2022

Tuesday, March 31st, 2020