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Title: University Press Strategic Review

Abstract: In the past decade the number of new, open-access scholar-led institutional presses in the UK, hosted by universities themselves has been slowly rising: in part as a response to the increasingly unsustainably commercialised publishing landscape as well as shifts to more open publishing. While the University of Warwick Press (UWP) was established some time ago and hosts some journals and a very modest monograph publishing programme already, following an outline review in '23, a yearlong strategic review project is currently evaluating and exploring new paradigms and configurations of operation by a newly created role: the Press Manager. This work will culminate in creating a business case with a range of future models for the University to decide upon. As crucial part of informing this work the Press Manager is engaging in a range of community consultations, talking with scholars and practitioners about how their own publishing aspirations, insights and experiences might be reflected in a future iteration of the Press. As such, this brief talk will give insights into UWP’ current operations, the ongoing project and provide a focus for informal discussions to help inform the thinking around this work.