Jobs List FAQs

Posting jobs is a complimentary benefit for AUPresses member presses.

The following non-Association member categories are eligible to use the paid Job Posting Service: AUPresses Partners; AUPresses Annual Meeting Sponsors and Exhibitors; Non-profit research, education, arts, and cultural institutions; and small and independent academic publishers.

Find more details about Job Posting Service eligibility. If you have a question about whether you qualify, contact jobs@aupresses.org.

Individuals on the staff of a member press who have registered for a UP Commons account please see detailed instructions for posting a job (via the “Post a Job” submission form) or managing jobs (via “My Job Posts”).

Individuals at non-member organizations—that meet our eligibility requirements and other guidelines—will submit their paid job posting via the Job Posting Service Form. Find out more about the Job Posting Service.

Job postings are complimentary for AUPresses members.

Job postings are available to non-Association member presses and organizations for a fee per listing. Please see more information about Job Posting Service costs and policies.

Only staff at AUPresses member presses may personally post to the Jobs List. Please contact the press and request that someone on staff post the job on your behalf. You will be able to view the Jobs List regardless of membership, of course.

If you are a headhunter or institutional HR officer at a press or organization that is not an AUPresses member and meets all the eligibility guidelines, you can submit a job posting for a fee via the Job Posting Service Form.

Yes! Eligible non-members may post to the Jobs List for a fee.

Posting Service participants must fall into one of these categories: AUPresses Partners; AUPresses Annual Meeting Sponsors and Exhibitors; Non-profit research, education, arts, and cultural institutions; and small and independent academic publishers. See more details about Job Posting Service eligibility, costs, and policies. If you have a question about whether you qualify, contact jobs@aupresses.org.

Eligible organizations can submit a listing via the Job Posting Service Form and learn more about becoming a member.

First things first! Does AUPresses know about your move? If you are not certain that the Association will know your new affiliation, title, and email address please fill out this form to let us know.

Second, you will also need to update your UP Commons account. It is easy to edit profile information such as press affiliation and title. However, it is also essential to make sure the email address you have submitted to AUPresses via the above form is the same as the email address associated with your UP Commons account. If they do not match, you could be automatically removed from necessary Committee Groups or from the network entirely. In the mid-term this will be a self-serve function as the rest of your profile is, but currently you must email hello@hcommons.org to request an administrative change of your email address.

If you still work at a member press and have updated your AUPresses and UP Commons records, then you can continue to post jobs seamlessly—just be certain to doublecheck that any old information (press name or contact field) is not automatically populating the listing before you approve publication. If there are any active jobs that you posted for your previous employer, they should expire as set. If editing or reposting is necessary, the press should contact commons@aupresses.org.

The Jobs List provides editing icons for the “Description” field in the Members submissions form. You can bold, italicize, add bullet points, and add links to your posting. AUPresses members can find more details about how to post jobs—including notes about standardizing style and presentation—in the Job Posting Instructions.

The AUPresses Statement on Equity and Anti-Racism makes the point that such unpaid positions provide a pathway to a publishing career that is unavailable to many individuals who cannot afford to work without pay. This reality, common to the larger publishing and cultural/creative industries (for example, see “Panic! It’s an Arts Emergency”), has led to a workforce that does not always look like the communities university presses live in and serve. We understand the financial situation of nonprofits everywhere that has made unpaid internships a lingering reality, but at the same time cannot ignore the inequities that persist in representation throughout our global publishing sector. We can no longer implicitly endorse unpaid positions via free posting in this space. If your press supports unpaid work and learning opportunities for credit, please look to local and institutional networks to recruit interested students.

You are already logged in to your UP Commons account and you’ve clicked on “Post a Job” but you still see a message about the need to log in to UP Commons rather than the job posting form. Why is this happening?

This appears to be a caching problem that some users are experiencing with certain browsers. If you clear your browser of UP Commons and Knowledge Commons items that should resolve the issue and allow you to post your job successfully.