{{Short description|Publishing arm of Johns Hopkins University}}
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| headquarters = [[Baltimore]], Maryland, U.S.
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| url = {{URL|https://www.press.jhu.edu}}
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'''Johns Hopkins University Press'''{{efn|The official name of the university press is "The Johns Hopkins University Press". The name is commonly written as "Johns Hopkins University Press", without the article "The", as is also the case with the name of the university itself.}} (also referred to as '''JHU Press''' or '''JHUP''') is the publishing division of [[Johns Hopkins University]]. It was founded in 1878 and is the oldest continuously running [[university press]] in the United States.<ref name="Camhi2013">{{cite book|author=Jeff Camhi|title=A Dam in the River: Releasing the Flow of University Ideas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3qodTxXkEgEC&pg=PA149|access-date=31 August 2013|date=15 April 2013|publisher=Algora Publishing|isbn=978-0-87586-989-6|pages=149–}}</ref> The press publishes books and journals, and operates other divisions including fulfillment and electronic databases. Its headquarters are in [[Charles Village, Baltimore|Charles Village]] section of [[Baltimore]], Maryland.

In 2017, after the retirement of Kathleen Keane, who is credited with modernizing JHU Press for the digital age, the university appointed new director Barbara Pope.<ref>{{Cite web|first=Katie |last=Pearce|date=2017-07-31|title=JHU Press names publishing industry veteran Barbara Kline Pope as new director|url=https://hub.jhu.edu/2017/07/31/barbara-kline-pope-jhu-press/|access-date=2021-04-12|website=The Hub|language=en}}</ref>

==Overview==
[[Daniel Coit Gilman]], the first president of [[Johns Hopkins University]], inaugurated the press in 1878.<ref name="JHUP"/> The press began as the university's Publication Agency, publishing the ''[[American Journal of Mathematics]]'' in its first year and the ''[[American Chemical Journal]]'' in its second. It published its first book, [[Sidney Lanier|''Sidney Lanier: A Memorial Tribute'']], in 1881 to honor the poet who was one of the university's first writers in residence. In 1891, the Publication Agency became the Johns Hopkins Press; since 1972, it has been known as the Johns Hopkins University Press.<ref name="JHUP">{{cite news|title=America's Oldest University Press|url=http://www.press.jhu.edu/about/index.html|publisher=Jhu press|access-date=2006-01-15|archive-date=2006-01-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060114202219/http://www.press.jhu.edu/about/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

After various moves on and off the university's [[Homewood campus]], the Press acquired a permanent home in Baltimore's Charles Village neighborhood in 1993, when it relocated to a renovated former church. Built in 1897, the granite and brick structure was the original church of the Saints Philip and James Roman Catholic parish and now houses the offices of the press on five floors.

In its 125 years of scholarly publishing, the Press has had only eight directors: Nicholas Murray, 1878–1908; Christian W. Dittus, 1908–1948; Harold E. Ingle, 1948–1974; Jack G. Goellner, 1974–1996; Willis G. Regier, 1996–1998; James D. Jordan, 1998–2003; Kathleen Keane, 2003–2017; and Barbara Pope, 2017–present.<ref>[https://hub.jhu.edu/2017/02/02/jhu-press-keane-retirement/ Kathleen Keane, director of JHU Press for past 13 years, to retire]</ref>

==Publications and divisions==
{{main category|Johns Hopkins University Press books}}
{{main category|Johns Hopkins University Press academic journals}}
JHU Press publishes 90 [[scholarly journal]]s and more than 200 new books each year.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/titles.html |title=List of titles on the JHU Press website |access-date=2009-07-05 |archive-date=2017-05-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170503191033/https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/titles.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Since 1993, JHU Press has run [[Project MUSE]], an online provider of more than 550 scholarly journals and more than 20,000 electronic books.

The press has three operating divisions:
* Book Publishing: acquisitions, manuscript editing, design & production, and marketing
* Journals and Electronic Publishing, which includes Project MUSE
* Hopkins Fulfillment Services (HFS): order processing, information systems, and the distribution center

==See also==
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* [[List of English-language book publishing companies]]
* [[List of university presses]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.press.jhu.edu}}

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