Publishing offices of lithuanian universities and their position in the market

The subject of work – activities of the publishing offices of Lithuania – The main purpose – to examine Lithuanian publishing offices evolution evaluating each high schools practice and publications repertoire considering the changes appeared in economy and educating system in Lithuania after 1990. Publishing offices activities are studied during period of 1991 – 2003, because there wasn’t any essential shift in university publishing and there is no statistical information presented about 1990. The main purpose shall be obtained by accomplishing these tasks: to dispute about university’s publishing processes and the main principles of it’s activities in the world; to analyze statistical information of publishing offices of the Lithuanian universities, to estimate leaders and the main principles of their activities; to analyze the publications and repertoire of universities. To conclude, every established university had it’s own publishing department, which was to publish and distribute scientific and educational literature to academic society. Publishing offices are non-profit organizations, which are financed by various Republic ministries, committees and other supporters also university budgets to which they are subordinated. Most of universities publishing houses established small printing houses and obtained equipment, which made printing quicker and cheaper. All Lithuanian universities concern about distribution, but this sphere is too complicated to many of them. The main distribution of products it is implementing through bookshops, established in universities, faculty departments, whereas all publications publicize in Internet and by participating in book marts. The analysis of university publishing offices products in the period of 1993-2003 shows that there’s the same fluctuation in circulation as in all Lithuanian publishing. Each publishing house of the 15 universities fills the same mission, seeks the same goals and does the same actions. Activities of the high school’s publishing houses are particular, because they are determined by their departmental dependence, nevertheless that this makes their activities more complicated, each year amount of the products increases. The master’s work could be useful to the future researchers of the publishing houses of Lithuanian universities as well as to the Lithuanian high school publishing houses and their directors