- Number of Association members: 161
- Number of members at founding in 1937: 21
- Number of US states and Canadian provinces home to a founding member press: 14 and 1, respectively
- Number of current members outside of North America: 23
- Number of countries home to at least one AUPresses member: 17
Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, Hungary, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Qatar, South Africa, the UK, and the US
- US states home to at least one AUPresses member: 41 plus the District of Columbia
- Number of Canadian provinces home to at least one AUPresses member: 6
- US state home to the most members: New York (15)
- City home to the most members: Washington, DC (11)
- Number of members supported by US universities and colleges: 104
- Number of members supported by public US universities: 58
- Titles published annually per member: 1 to 1,500
- Titles published annually by all members: approximately 12,000
- Journals published annually by all members: approximately 1,500
- Titles in print at member presses: approximately 333,000
- 14 Nobel Laureates in Literature since 2000 have published work with member presses: J.M. Coetzee, Annie Ernaux, Gao Xingjian, Imre Kertész, Peter Handke, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Mo Yan, Patrick Modiano, Herta Müller, Orhan Pamuk, Olga Tokarczak, Tomas Tranströmer, and Mario Vargas Llosa
- 39 Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences since 2000 have published work with member presses: George A. Akerlof, Joshua Angrist, Robert J. Aumann, Abhijit Banerjee, Ben Bernanke, David Card, Angus Deaton, Peter A. Diamond, Robert F. Engle III, Clive W.J. Granger, Lars Peter Hansen, Oliver Hart, James J. Heckman, Guido Imbens, Daniel Kahneman, Michael Kremer, Paul Krugman, Eric S. Maskin, Daniel L. McFadden, Paul R. Milgrom, Dale T. Mortensen, Roger B. Myerson, William D. Nordhaus, Elinor Ostrom, Edmund S. Phelps, Christopher A. Pissarides, Edward C. Prescott, Alvin E. Roth, Thomas J. Sargent, Thomas C. Schelling, Lloyd S. Shapley, Robert J. Shiller, Christopher A. Sims, Vernon L. Smith, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Richard H. Thaler, Jean Tirole, Oliver E. Williamson, and Robert B. Wilson
- 32 Bancroft Prize-winning works since 2000 have been published by member presses, authored by: Thomas G. Andrews, Mary Sarah Bilder, David W. Blight, W. Jeffrey Bolster, James F. Brooks, Lisa Brooks, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Erskine Clarke, Sara Dubow, Alan Gallay, Linda Gordon, Steven Hahn, Pekka Hämäläinen, Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio, Andy Horowitz, Anne F. Hyde, Margaret D. Jacobs, Ari Kelman, Alice Kessler-Harris, Jack Temple Kirby, Michael J. Klarman, Andrew Lipman, George M. Marsden, Michael O’Brien, Charles Postel, Joseph P. Reidy, Daniel T. Rodgers, Deborah A. Rosen, Nancy Tomes, Christopher Tomlins, Arne Westad, and Douglas L. Winiarski
- Sources of Press Operating Budgets:
Source: Schmelzinger, Kimberly. The Association of University Presses Annual Operating Statistics 2016 through 2019, February 2020.
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- 66% of Carnegie R1 institutions (97 of 146) host or support, through a system or consortia, a member press
- 78% of AAU member institutions—51 major research universities located in the US and Canada—host, or support through systems or consortia, a member press
- More than 90 APLU university members in the US and Canada host, or support through consortia, a member press, and a majority of APLU university system members in the US do as well
- 82 major research institutions in the US and Canada can boast both an ARL member library and an AUPresses member press
Most recent update: February 2023