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Athabasca University Press x Manifold

Blog In a recent blog post, we discussed the changing landscape of scholarly publishing and how our open access mandate motivates us to consider the endless possibilities for sharing knowledge communicating...

Assessment Strategies for Online Learning: MOOCs

Blog For many learners, assessment conjures up visions of red pens scrawling percentages in the top right-hand corner of exams and feelings of stress, inadequacy, and failure. Although learners sometimes respond...

Open Access Week 2018: A Survey

Blog Here at Athabasca University Press, we will be celebrating Open Access Week by publishing our 138th open access book since our founding ten years ago. For the past few years,...

Manifold: Publishing and Beyond

Blog Earlier this week, we at AU Press were holed up in a room with Tim Horton’s doughnuts and the University of Minnesota Press’s Digital Projects Editor, Terence Smyre, for a...

Open Access Week Survey: The Results Are In!

Blog Thank you to everyone who participated in our Open Access Week Survey. We thoroughly enjoyed watching the responses accumulate and start to lean in one direction or the other. You...

University Press Week 2018: #TurnItUP (literally!)

Blog Welcome to the 2018 University Press Week blog tour! This year’s #UPWeek theme is #TurnItUP and we’ll be celebrating the ways in which university presses amplify voices, stories, and subjects...

Back to School: AU Press’s Top Course Texts

Blog And just like that, the holidays are over and we’re back to our routines of reading, writing, researching, editing, teaching, and learning. To celebrate the start of a new year...

Spring 2019 at AU Press

Blog It’s time for your annual reminder that spring is not that far away. Our spring catalogue cover will remind you of yellow daffodils, tulips, and warm sunshine. We always look...

Behind the Scenes: Designing a Dust Jacket

Blog Most publishers will tell you that the book cover is the most important marketing tool you have. The old adage “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is showing its...