The university is situated in the center of Bologna, where it was established in 1998 as an Italian University Press which was created as a limited company and includes private investors among its owners.
[1] The Fondazione Bologna University Press is driven by corporate-editorial policies as well as three government bodies.
These bodies include: the board of directors whom gather the representatives and shareholders of BUP; the Board of Auditors, who are tasked with BUP's financial management; and the Scientific Committee, that analyzes and recommends Bologna University Press' publications to third-parties.
It produces roughly 90 titles per year, and, as of September 2014, holds a catalogue of about 900 titles that includes art and academic texts, narrative literature, history and photography books, illustrated texts for children, and translations from foreign languages.
[2] Bologna University Press collaborates with cultural representatives of the Emilia-Romagna region, such as:[3] Bologna University Press also cooperates with national institutions, such as: Since 2006, Bologna University Press has been publishing the books of individuals who have received the Inedited Italian Narrative biennal Award "Arcangela Todaro-Faranda"[4]- in 2014, in occasion of tenth death' anniversary of professor Raffaele Spongano, the foundation creator, it was published a collection of all the contest judges' relations and winners of various editions' opinions;[5] in 2009, Bologna University Press became the editor of Illustrator’s Annual,[6] the official catalogue of Bologna Children's Book Fair's illustrators.