Vilnius University Press books since 1575 Ljubljana University

Vilnius University Press. . . books since 1575 Ljubljana University Publishing Conference, Thursday, 23 rd May 2019

Founded in 1575 as Vilnius Academy Press Mikalojus Kristupas Radvila Našlaitėlis, founder of Vilnius Academy Press Vilnius University founded in 1579

Sold to Juozapas Zavadskis in 1805 Nationalized by Soviets in 1940 Building on Šv. Jono Street where Juozapas Zavadskis’ press shop was located

Modern times Re-established in 1990 as Publishing unit under Science department at Vilnius University In 1997 re-organized into a separate legal entity as limited liability company Vilnius University Press owned by Vilnius University In 2003 changed the status of legal entity into public institution In 2011 re-organized into Publishing department at Vilnius University In 2017 re-organized into Vilnius University Press as subdivision of Vilnius University

Place at Vilnius University The structure of Vilnius University: Central administration with 18 departments, 14 faculties, 12 non-academic subdivisions (Botanical Garden, Confucius Institute, Cultural Center, Dormitory Center, Health and Sports Center, Information Technology and Services Center, Library, Planetarium, Press, Property Management and Service Center, Museum, Training and Practice Base).

Rector Structure Publishing committee Vilnius University Press Editor-in-chief Vice-Rector for Science Chancellor Managing director Administrator Sales manager Project manager Head of Scholarly Journals Warehouse Manager Administrator of Scientific Journals Accountant Graphic designer Layout Designers (3) Language Editors (4) 17 employees (16 FTE) English Language Editor

Production • 50 -70 book titles per year • 30 peer-review journals (40 volumes) • 150 dissertations In 2018: • 21 monographs • 2 sets of peer reviewed articles sets • 23 textbooks • 12 other (references, directories, atlases, etc. ) • 10 conference proceedings

Funding University budget (wages, expenditures, publishing fund) Research Council of Lithuanian Council for Culture Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (journals only)

Open Access policy • Peer-reviewed journals are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License 4. 0 • Books and other publications are copyrighted following Vilnius University Intellectual Property Policy

Marketing Posts on Facebook (facebook. com/vuleidykla/) News on Vilnius University News Portal (naujienos. vu. lt) Newsletters to libraries and bookstores Book presentations (events) Vilnius Book Fair (February) Vilnius University internet bookstore (in progress) Christmas cards

Awards Best design in academic books and textbooks category (award from Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania) Nomination (2017) Award (2018)

Distribution Bookstores in Vilnius Akademinė knyga (4 Universiteto st. ), Littera (5 Universiteto st. ), Eureka! (2/10 Daukanto sq. ), Mintis (15 Z. Sierakausko st. ), Versmė (Didžioji g. 27) Vaga bookstores: Gedimino 50 (50 Gedimino av. ), Centrinis (13 Gedimino av. ), PC GO 9 (9 Gedimino av. ), PC Europa (7 a Konstitucijos av. ), PPC Ozas (18 Ozo st. ) Thematical books: National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania (Katedros sq. 4), MO Museum (Pylimo st. 17), National Gallery of Arts (Konstitucijos av. 22). Bookstores in Kaunas Tūkstantis ir viena knyga, (11 Vilniaus st. ), Akademinis knygynas (52 K. Donelaičio st. ), Šv. Kazimiero knygynas, (3 Vilniaus st. ), Lithuanian University of Health Sciences bookstore, (9 Mickevičiaus st. ) Online www. knygos. lt, www. patogupirkti. lt, www. mintis. eu, www. humanitas. lt, www. vaga. lt, Amazon. co. uk (books in English), Amazon Kindle Store (books in English)

Technologies Open Journal System 3 hosting platform for journals (journals. vu. lt) Layouts and design – Adobe In. Design, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat

Standarts in daily use • LST ISO standards – cover pages, masthead, caption title, colophon • Publication Ethics – COPE • ISSN, ISBN, DOI • OJS workflow • Creative Commons • PDF, HTML • Local standards concerned with use of official language • Citation styles

Membership Lithuanian Publishers Association of Lithuanian Academic Publishers The Association of Lithuanian Serials Association of European University Presses Cross. Ref I 4 OC

CONTACTS Arūnas Gudinavičius arunas. gudinavicius@kf. vu. lt leidykla. vu. lt telephone +370 5 268 7184 email info@leidyba. vu. lt Facebook @vuleidykla