It has several outlets in Germany and tries to have a regional networking role for other European university presses.
The European University Press wants to enhance the visibility of international and especially European research results especially in comparison to American research results which are seen as dominating.
For this purpose, it fosters multilinguality when introducing new publications and supports English abstracts of German and French research results.
The press fosters the establishment of instruments of quality assurance such as peer review, the 'European Impact Factor', 'European Citation Index' as well as open access by professional presses.
The book can be read as a normal paper book or - enriched with multimedia elements - with Google Glass, Kindle, on Smartphone and Pads on the platforms iOS and Android.