SUPRR goes to Canada

Gana Kharlamova, Iryna Izarova of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Frances Pinter, Executive Chair of CEU Press were joined by Yuliia Hartman of East European Law Research Center at the Association for University Presses annual conference in Montreal 11-13 June. Kharlamova and Izarova were sponsored guests of the association and presented at a panel chaired by Pinter called ‘Scholarly Publishing in a War Zone’. In addition, Ivanna Cherchovych, of the Center for Urban History in Lviv contributed a short video about her Re-esources project.

The visit culminated with a panel on the needs, challenges and opportunities for university press publishing in Ukraine. During the three days many individual meetings were set up and the offers of support were many and potentially far-reaching.

Plans are now being turned into actions including substantial training programmes, services that will be provided to the Ukrainian scholarly publishing community helping them take a place in the international community of academic publishing, as well as further industry presence at, for example the Frankfurt Book Fair.The day before the conference began the team went to the McGill Queens University Library and opened up discussions with the head of Special Collections to donate a number of Ukrainian children’s books for preservation.