University Press Publishing for Ukraine: Policy and Practice

The five-day University Press Publishing for Ukraine: Policy and Practice Programme, organized by SUPRR in collaboration with Oxford International Centre for Publishing and Journalism and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, brought together 18 Ukrainian delegates for an intensive week in Oxford this January.

Throughout the week, delegates engaged in sessions covering policy and practice in university press publishing, AI in scholarly communications, open access initiatives, funding support, sales and marketing, and production and distribution. The Programme featured over 30 speakers from leading publishing organizations including Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, BMJ, UCL IOE Press, Jisc, RLUK, Crossref, CLOCKSS, UKRI among others.

Industry visits further enriched the experience. Ingram Publisher Services led a comprehensive tour of production and global distribution facilities. Sessions on sales and marketing from TBI Communications and Liverpool University Press addressed discoverability and market development, and Springer Nature hosted an extended session focused on global publishing strategy.

The initiative now serves as a springboard for future collaboration including plans to work toward establishing a Ukrainian University Press Association and strengthening sustainable, internationally connected academic publishing in Ukraine.