United Nations Economic And Social Commission For Asia And The Pacific Tender

Request for information for Provision of Publishing Support for the Production and Promotion of the Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal ESCAP is seeking to partner with a publisher in order to jointly produce and publish the Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal (hereafter, APSDJ), an existing ESCAP journal currently undergoing a transition with the aim of increasing its visibility and academic impact. As publishing with the United Nations is subject to extensive internal regulation, prior to commencing a procurement process, ESCAP seeks to understand - through this Request for Information - the extent to which potential publishing partners would be able to comply with relevant UN rules, as detailed below. Respondents are requested to indicate in their submissions, point by point, which conditions that would be acceptable within an agreement to co-publish the APSDJ. The main reference document is the United Nations Policy Manual for Publications; a document that was drafted primarily for an internal audience, hence the bracketed insertions of (United Nations) for clarity. 1. Chapter 5, Licensing of publications and other content: (a) When a publication is co-published between the UN Secretariat and one or more external partners (trade publishers, international organizations and/or research institutes with a relevant publishing programme), the United Nations holds the copyright. (5.13.b) (b) Only the trade publisher’s logo can appear on the publisher’s edition, i.e. the United Nations emblem cannot appear anywhere in the book. The following should however be printed on the front cover: In collaboration with the United Nations. (5.19b) (c) Licensing Office (i) Licensing requests, contracts, and copyright and policy queries are handled as follows: The Secretariat of the (United Nations) Publications Board is responsible for copyright and policy queries. The Secretariat of the (United Nations) Publications Board drafts co-edition contracts and contracts for the external publication of original UN content UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC (UNESCAP),