Talk:List of university presses

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English presses or English countries?

The article is divided into English-speaking and non-English speaking countries. But shouldn't it be divided into English-speaking presses and non-English speaking presses?

See, while NUS press is English-speaking, Singapore's first language is Mandarin. (Similarly AUC press is in English, though Egypt is an Arabic-speaking country). On the other hand, we could have French-language presses from Quebec, Canada (though I don't think there're any right now).VR _talk 20:27, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, the current subdivision does not make much sense. In addition, I could imagine some presses publishing books in more than one language. I think the list should just be reorganized geographically. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 21:42, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Is Moody Publishers a university press?

Please see Talk:Moody_Publishers#University_press. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 20:08, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Polish universities or Polish university presses

I strongly suspect that whoever posted the Polish listings didn't understand that this page is a listing of university presses. The list looks unrealistically lengthy, and for most of them, I could find no indication that they have presses. Also, most lack a URL link. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.159.185.52 (talk) 23:03, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Redundant and disorganized pages related to university presses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_press

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_university_presses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:University_presses_by_country

Shouldn't this all be rationalized in some way? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.159.185.52 (talk) 00:29, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It may not be obvious, but they are organized:

University press is an article on the general topic of university presses (lowercase, generic).
University Press is a disambiguation page used as a navigational aid for articles with "University Press" in their titles. This includes articles which aren't directly about a university press, like the student newspapers titled University Press.
List of university presses lists notable (meaning those with articles) university presses whether or not they have "university press" in their name.
Category:University presses by country allows the Wikimedia software to generate additional lists automatically.

So you can see they're each a little different, approaching the information in a different way. – Reidgreg (talk) 10:46, 11 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Needs work

I did a bit of cleanup on the list and noticed a few issues which I can't address right now. Mostly, I think a quite a few entries on the list have notability issues.

Several of the university presses on the list pointed to or were redirects to the university articles, which had no mention of a press, publication or printing house. I deleted these as non-notable:

Baylor University Press – redirect, no mention of press in parent article
Charles Darwin University Press – redirect, no mention of press in parent article
Pace University Press – redirect, the press is only peripherally mentioned as occupying a historic building, it does not establish the notability of the press.
Dhaka University Press – redirect with no mention of the press.
Rajshahi University Press – redirect with no mention of the press.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press – redirect with no mention of the press.
Leiden University Press – redirect with no mention of the press.

External links that don't belong on a list:

Defunct:

Eastern Washington University Press closed in 2010. Similarly with Howard University Press, United Nations University Press. I don't believe these are notable enough to include when the only reliable secondary source mention is of their closing.

Need attention:

China Renmin University Press – redirect, mentioned but unsourced in parent article which claims the press is "one of the most famous publishers" and "the first university press in China".
Central European University Press – unsourced stub
Washington State University Press – unsourced stub
Texas Christian University Press – unsourced stub
Duquesne University Press – unsourced stub
Carnegie Mellon University Press – unsourced stub
Wake Forest University Press – unsourced stub
Northumbria University Press – unsourced stub
Karlstad University Press – unsourced stub
East China Normal University Press – unsourced stub
Bob Jones University Press prints mostly pre-college religious publications, and I'm not sure if it fits the peer-reviewed scholarly focus to qualify as a "university press" even if it is the press of a university. Andrews University Press may be a similar case.
Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika and The Nicolaus Copernicus University Press appear to cover the same subject

Many of the other stub articles rely on primary sources, which doesn't establish notability. And of course there all the redlinked articles which shouldn't be included.

Unfortunately, all the non-notable entries make it difficult to spot the important, notable ones like Oxford, Cambridge, and University of Chicago presses. – Reidgreg (talk) 16:48, 11 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Umbrella organization memberships

Is it too promotional for this global list to note whether a press belongs to the Association of University Presses (AUP), the Association of European University Presses (AEUP), Association of Canadian University Presses (ACUP), or the Association Française des Presses d’Universités Diffusion (AFPU-D)? ---- M2545 (talk) 07:49, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I added those in there just because in academia there is often an interest in whether or not a UP is affiliated with organizations like these. Additionally, the organizations I included were the ones that had Wikipedia articles. (Ideally, I would want to include the presses that are a part of the Association of University Presses of Latin America and the Caribbean, too.)--Gen. Quon_[Talk] 19:51, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gen. Quon: Thanks for the explanation. It does seem useful to readers to include information about umbrella organizations. But some umbrella organizations are not mentioned in this list and I wonder if it's perhaps misleading or biased (WP:WEIGHT, WP:BALANCE) to include some umbrella organizations but not others? See for example, Leuven UP, which mentions both well-established and lesser-known organizations. -- M2545 (talk) 10:45, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's a fair point. When I put this all together, however, I thought to focus exclusively on UP-related organizations, rather than the full spectrum of organizations out there. (To be fair, on many of the pages I've created for UPs, I have attempted to list the other organizations, too.)--Gen. Quon_[Talk] 15:34, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]