Last week, our sales manager Joleen attended LundOnline 2026 in Lund (14â16 October), representing Erasmus Boekhandel at one of the key forums for scholarly communication in the Nordic region.
LundOnline is a biennial conference organised by the Department of Scholarly Communication at Lund University Library, bringing together academic librarians, publishers and other stakeholders to discuss developments and challenges in academic publishing. This yearâs programme covered open access and sustainability, national consortium strategies, AI in scholarly publishing, and the implications of CoARA for research evaluation. These are all topics that sit at the heart of how academic libraries are evolving as collections and procurement change.
It was a valuable few days of conversations with librarians from across the Nordic region. If youâd like to continue the conversation, donât hesitate to get in touch.
Erasmus Boekhandel, in partnership with Casalini Libri, announces that
the Torrossa Digital Library now includes ebooks and ejournals from more than
750 publishers across Europe and beyond.
The publisher list reads like a map of scholarly publishing itself:
long-established university presses such as Oxford University Press, Princeton
University Press and Il Mulino sit alongside major international houses like De
Gruyter, Bloomsbury, Wiley, and Brepols, and specialist imprints covering
everything from classical archaeology to contemporary art history. French,
Spanish, German, Italian and Dutch publishers all have a strong presence,
including L'Harmattan, Franco Angeli and Duncker & Humblot to name a few.
The
750-publisher mark reflects sustained growth for the platform, with new
publishers added on an ongoing basis across the humanities, law, social
sciences and the arts. For research libraries and institutions building or
expanding collections, it marks Torrossa's continued emergence as a significant
resource for academic publishing.
Erasmus
Boekhandel has been recognized by the Koninklijke Boekverkopersbond
(KBb) for its significant collaborative role, alongside KBb, the
European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF), LIBER, and
other organizations, in successfully ensuring that books were exempted
from the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). https://www.boekbond.nl/goed-nieuws-boeken-uitgesloten-van-de-eudr-ontbossingswet/
Through
coordinated national and European advocacy, we highlighted that books
and other printed materials pose no deforestation risk due to their
reliance on certified, recycled or sustainably sourced paper. Our joint
lobbying helped convince the European Parliament, the European
Commission and the Council that including finished printed products in
the EUDR would disproportionately burden the book sector, threaten
supply chains, and limit citizensâ access to knowledge and culture.
The
collective efforts contributed to the EUâs decision in December 2025 to
formally exclude books and other printed materials from the scope of
the regulation. This outcome safeguards cultural diversity, academic
access and the free circulation of books across Europe.