From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:20:55 -0500

Here are the basic membership eligibility requirements of the AAUP:
http://www.aaupnet.org/aaup-members/becoming-a-member/eligibility-requirements.

There is also a much more detailed set of Guidelines on Membership,
which I can't find on the AAUP web site. The AAUP has a standing
committee on membership (on which I once served), which reviews
thoroughly every application and pays special attention to procedures
in place to ensure quality control.

It should be said that there is a degree of flexibility in these
requirements that acknowledges differences in how different presses
operate and are related to their parent institutions. E.g., there is
no mandated number of faculty members who must serve on the press's
editorial board.

Sandy Thatcher

> From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:44:03 +0100
>
> Sandy
>
> Does AAUP expel publishers who do not exercise this high level of quality
> control. I would be very interested in knowing how this is monitored. For
> example does a university press who only uses reviewers from within the
> university perceived as exercising a high level of quality control. This is
> a genuine question. I know very little about AAUP procedures though back
> early in the last decade I questionnaire all the university press members of
> AAUP over work I was doing on electronic solutions to the problems of
> monograph publishing and had a huge variety of replies which seemed to
> indicate very different regimes.
>
> Anthony