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Kevin Smith, Director of Scholarly Communications for the Perkins Library at Duke University, is the winner of the 2011 Johns Hopkins University Press Award for the best article in the most recent volume of the journal portal: Libraries and the Academy. The Journals Division of the Press and portal’s Editorial Board Awards Committee selected Smith’s article “Copyright Renewal for Libraries: Seven Steps Toward a User-Friendly Law,” which appeared in Volume 10, Number 1 in January 2010.

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Two additions to the JHUP collection of journals have been announced for 2012. The titles bring JHUP’s collection to 70 journals. The first new title is German Studies Review, the official journal of the German Studies Association. Sabine Hake from the University of Texas at Austin, serves as the journal’s editor. The second title is Digital Philology, a new journal, with an editorial team of Nadia Altshuler (Executive Editor) and Stephen G. Nichols (Founding Editor) from the Johns Hopkins University and Albert Lloret (Managing Editor) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Colleges and universities across the country rely on surveys of student engagement (SSE) to get a better understanding of their students’ involvement, integration and engagement. The Fall 2011 issue of The Review of Higher Education features a collection of issues which cast a critical eye on SSE tools. The five essays raise questions about the design and psychometrics of the SSE instruments and offer thoughtful suggestions to improve the project, especially the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE).

The Journal of Women’s History has chosen a winner for its first-ever prize. Susanne M. Klausen is the inaugural Journal of Women’s History Award recipient for her article "'Reclaiming the White Daughter's Purity': Afrikaner Nationalism, Racialized Sexuality, and the 1975 Abortion and Sterilization Act in Apartheid South Africa." The article appeared in the Fall 2010 issue of the journal (Vol. 22, No. 3).

Johns Hopkins University researcher S. Darius Tandon, Ph.D., has taken over as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education and Action. Tandon succeeds Eric B. Bass, M.D., MPH, who now serves as Editor Emeritus.

The Society for Qing Studies has unveiled a new website for China scholars and subscribers to its companion journal, Late Imperial China (LIC) at http://qing_studies.press.jhu.edu.

“We felt that the Society for Qing Studies needed an on-line home.  Our journal had its origins as a bulletin through which scholars in our field could share information about research experiences.  Decades later, it really is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. The new site will provide scholars with a gathering place through which to share information about research and teaching,” says Tobie Meyer Fong, co-editor of LIC and co-coordinator of the Society along with Janet Theiss.

On June 1, 2011, the State of California began transitioning approximately 380,000 seniors and people with disabilities from a fee-for-service system to a managed care Medicaid system in 16 counties as part of an effort to reduce Medicaid spending. A team of researchers from the Health Research for Action, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, have completed a study assessing differences in beneficiaries' perceived quality of care in the two systems.  

The study will be published in the November 2011 (Volume 22, Number 4) issue of the Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved, but the journal and authors have made an edited version of the article available because of the timeliness of the topic. The authors found that seniors and persons with disabilities who had voluntarily enrolled in Medicaid managed care rated their care better or the same as it was in fee for service Medicaid. Implications for future evaluations of this transition are discussed. 

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With its 12th year of publishing on the horizon, the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History has made an editorial change. Clare Anderson from the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, has replaced journal founder Patricia Romero.

An editorial committee from the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History has chosen Indian scholar Aparna Balachandran to receive the first JCCH Prize for an outstanding essay published in the online journal.
This first honor covered articles published in the Johns Hopkins University Press journal between 2008 and 2010. Balachandran won for her article “Of Corporations and Caste heads: Urban Rule in Company Madras 1640-1720” which was published in the Fall 2008 issue (Volume 9, Number 2) of JCCH.

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In 1910, Abraham Flexner published the “Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada” for the Carnegie Foundation, a document which changed the way schools trained pre-medical and medical students. As we head into the second century of modern medical training, the journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine has published a special issue which examines the legacy of what is commonly called The Flexner Report.

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An article in the first issue of the relaunched Studies in American Fiction journal recently received an award from ProQuest and the Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP). A paper by Skidmore College faculty member Sari Edelstein was declared the best article on American periodicals published in a peer-reviewed journal in 2010 by a pre-tenure or independent scholar. Edelstein’s article “’Metamorphosis of the Newsboy’: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand and the Antebellum Story-Paper” appeared in the Spring 2010 issue of SAF.

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For more than 20 years, the Journal of Democracy has brought respected opinions from recognized experts on issues around the globe to its readers. The new issue of the journal features two of its most prominent voices on a critical issue – the Impact of the Economic Crisis. Co-editors Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner each present an essay on this important topic in the first issue of JoD’s 22nd volume.

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College students can learn a lot by researching peer-reviewed journal articles written by noted academics. A case study from a pair of Oregon librarians shows lesser-known sources can also benefit students – blogs and other online conversations. Anne-Marie Deitering and Kate Gronemyer have published “Beyond Peer-Reviewed Articles: Using Blogs to Enrich Students’ Understanding of Scholarly Work” in the journal portal: Libraries and the Academy. The article, which appears in the January 2011 issue (Volume 11, Issue 1) urges librarians to expose students to these online resources so students can better understan

Once again, The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books will try to make the task of buying a book for children and young adults a little bit easier this holiday season. The journal, based at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, publishes a free Guide Book to Gift Books with recommendations for early readers all the way up to high school students.

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Scott Bennett, Yale University Librarian Emeritus, is the winner of the 2010 Johns Hopkins University Press Award for the best article in the most recent volume of the journal portal: Libraries and the Academy. The Journals Division of the Press and portal’s Editorial Board Awards Committee selected Bennett’s article “Libraries and Learning: A History of Paradigm Change,” which appeared in Volume 9, Number 2 in April 2009.

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In an effort to help develop solutions to the problem of youth violence, the journal Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education & Action has produced a special issue on the topic, thanks to the support of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The issue (Volume 4, Issue 3) addresses several different aspects of youth violence, such as bullying, aggression, fighting, and gang involvement.

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A trio of researchers theorizes that schools can fight childhood obesity and help the environment at the same time in an article published in the Spring 2010 issue of the journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. “School Meals: a Nutritional and Environmental Perspective” concludes that by focusing more on locally grown products, schools can produce healthier meals for students while reducing energy costs associated with transporting foods to schools.

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The Johns Hopkins University Press has inaugurated a series of podcasts to delve deeper into the content of its 60-plus journal titles. The first podcast features an interview with Michael D. Wiatrowski and Jack A. Goldstone, who contributed The Ballot and the Badge: Democratic Policing to the April 2010 issue of the Journal of Democracy, an official publication of the National Endowment for Democracy.

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The true cause of addiction can spur many discussions. In the most recent edition of the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, a series of articles attempts to look beyond the most common definitions of addiction. The feature article “A Liberal Account of Addiction” by Bennett Foddy and Julian Savulescu presents a new method of viewing addiction by contemplating the term beyond its negative connotations. This study serves as the start for an interdisciplinary discussion in the journal.

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In the March 2010 issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Oregon State University professor Courtney S. Campbell, Ph.D., takes a look at the legal, social, and moral aspects of faith healing. Campbell, the Hundere Professor of Religion and Culture in the Department of Philosophy at OSU, examines the justifications for faith healing, the reasons why some congregations shun medical attention, and the explanations these congregations use when faith healing does not save a child.

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New Literary History debuted in 1969 and flourished under Ralph Cohen's leadership for 40 years. He announced his retirement last year and has turned over the reins of the journal to colleague Rita M. Felski. The final issue of the 41st volume will serve as a tribute to its founder, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus at Virginia.

The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, an online-only journal published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, has announced it will award a prize for an outstanding article published in the journal. The JCCH Prize will be given every three years to a contributor who has never published a full book or monograph. Academics from Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, the Caribbean and Central, South and Southeast Asia will be eligible for the honor.

The first issue of the journal Feminist Formations will arrive soon with essays on feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, book reviews and a new section dedicated to critical examinations of teaching and leading within academic environments. The journal begins its new life after publishing as the National Women’s Studies Association Journal for more than 20 years.

The Johns Hopkins University Press and portal: Libraries and the Academy have announced an agreement that will provide increased access to research about the role of academic libraries and librarianship. Beginning with the April 2010 issue, copy-edited versions of all accepted articles will be available in an open-access web environment.

As the debate on health care reform continues in Congress and across the nation, an important question has hidden in the background: how do we define “affordable” health insurance? An article in the most recent issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal by Carla Saenz takes on this very important question.

A leading journal in the field of Women's Studies has a new identity in 2010. Feminist Formations will debut in April 2010 after 21 years as the National Women's Studies Association Journal.

Three Johns Hopkins University Press journals received awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) on December 28. The CELJ announced its annual winners at the Modern Language Association conference in Philadelphia.

Indraneel Mittra worries about the state of medicine today. A Senior Consultant Cancer Surgeon and Convener of the Research Department at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in India, Mittra wonders what has happened to all the great medical innovations of the past. His article "Why is Modern Medicine Stuck in a Rut?" appears in the most recent issue of the journal Perspectives of Biology and Medicine (Volume 52, Number 4).

Canadian poet JonArno Lawson has won the 2009 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in Poetry. This marks the second time in three years that the Toronto resident has won the award.

Miles Orvell, the Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of American Studies (EAS), will receive the Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies on Nov. 6 at the American Studies Association (ASA) annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Leslie Killgore, currently teaching at the Community College of Rhode Island, investigated the admissions policies at 17 elite private colleges, those which typically admit less than one-third of all applicants. Killgore’s research was published this summer in The Review of Higher Education (Volume 32, Issue 4). The journal is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Sharon K. Epps, Head of Access Services at the University of Maryland Libraries, is the winner of the 2009 Johns Hopkins University Press Award for the best article in the most recent volume of the journal portal: Libraries and the Academy.

Reviews in American History, a comprehensive journal designed to keep academics abreast of new literature in the field, has big plans for the future. Thomas P. Slaughter, the Arthur R. Miller Professor of History at the University of Rochester, took over as editor in 2009.

University of Sussex professor Sara Crangle has won The Margaret Church MFS Memorial Prize from the journal MFS: Modern Fiction Studies for her essay “The Time Being: On Woolf and Boredom.”

As evidence-based medicine (EBM) has grown over the past few decades, so has criticism of this new method of approaching medical problems. That kind of debate has generated an issue of Perspectives of Biology and Medicine focused on the discussion among medical professionals.

The effects of incarceration do not stop at prison walls. A University of Michigan research study has shown that those with a friend or family member in prison will suffer more mental and physical health problems than those who do not know someone in prison.

Women in India who contract HIV face a number of obstacles in obtaining treatment, but researchers from the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) hope education and stronger networks of support can improve the situation.

A York College of Pennsylvania professor has won the 10th Leon Edel Prize sponsored by The Henry James Review. Colbey Emmerson Reid’s essay “The Statistical Aesthetics of Henry James, or Jamesian Naturalism” earned the top prize aimed at young academics and graduate students.

Marshall Poe has one message for fellow historians—get yourselves online. The University of Iowa professor outlines the importance of this in the April 2009 issue of Historically Speaking, the bulletin of The Historical Society.

As the federal government in the United States moves towards center stage on health care reform, the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved continues to track the health and health care needs of the medically underserved. An article by Esther Hing and Catherine Burt provides insight into the adoption of electronic health records by physicians serving this population.

Joshua M. Sharfstein, M.D., the principal deputy commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and former Commissioner for Health in Baltimore, has laid out the case for new research and ideas to address urban tobacco use in the latest issue of the journal Progress in Community Health Partnerships (PCHP).

A dedicated search by Rice University faculty member Logan D. Browning has produced an undiscovered short story by Walker Percy, which was published for the first time in The Hopkins Review this spring.

The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal at Georgetown University has released its most recent issue “Stem Cell Research: Ethics and Public Policy” in the wake of President Obama’s lifting of federal funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research.

A unique effort to bring together Hawaiian community activists and researchers has spawned the latest issue of the journal Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action.

Famed playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote leads a group of writers with Texas connections in the latest issue of the literary journal Callaloo. The issue (Volume 32, Issue 1) marks the first half of a two-issue tribute to the state’s writing tradition.

After 40 years at the helm, Ralph Cohen has retired as founder and editor of New Literary History. Cohen, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Virginia and the former Director of the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change, has been the only editor of Nnew Literary History, the leading journal of literary theory and interpretation worldwide.

As scientists reflect on the birthday of Charles Darwin last week, a pair of Belgian researchers take on a unique question: can Darwinian theory apply to sports in a cultural context?

The Johns Hopkins University Press has added two publications to the impressive collection published by its Journals Division. The oldest continuously operating university press in the country, the Johns Hopkins University Press publishes more than 60 scholarly journals.

With the presidency of Barack Obama nearing the end of its first month, the literary journal Callaloo has published a special issue on politics (Vol. 31, issue 4) featuring several prominent authors, including Nobel Prize winner Derek Wolcott.

An essay from award-wining author Harold Bloom highlights the offerings in the Winter 2009 edition of The Hopkins Review, the first issue in the second volume of the resurrected literary journal.

Sarah M. Pritchard has taken over as editor of the academic journal portal: Libraries and the Academy with the January 2009 issue. Pritchard is the Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian at Northwestern University.

A group of faculty members from the University of Akron have used research and creative work to focus a special issue of the National Women’s Studies Association Journal (Volume 20, Issue 3) on the significance of gender and disaster in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

The Journals Division of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Board of Editors Awards Committee of the journal portal: Libraries and the Academy are pleased to announce that the winner of the Johns Hopkins University Press 2008 award for best article has been given to “Evidence-Based Library Management: The Leadership Challenge” written by Amos Lakos. The article appeared in portal’s October 2007 issue (Volume 7, Number 4).

The 2008 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry has been awarded to Linda Sue Park, for her collection, Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems). “From brain all the way to heart” (a line from one of the poems in the winning collection), serves as the title of this year’s award essay, written by Richard Flynn Angela Sorby and Joseph T. Thomas. Their discussion of the year’s work in poetry for children, as well as an analysis of winning collection and the honor books (Jay M. Harris’s The Moon Is La Luna: Silly Rhymes in English & Spanish and Carole Boston Weatherford’s Birmingham, 1963) is available on open access courtesy of the Johns Hopkins University Press.

The Johns Hopkins University Press is pleased to announce the winner of the Asia/Asian America section of the American Sociological Association’s Research Paper Award for 2007: Being American Between Black and White: Second Generation Asian American Professionals Racial Identities, by Pawan Dhingra, Associate Professor of Sociology at Oberlin College. This study, based on in-depth interviews with seventy second-generation Asian American professionals in Dallas, Texas, examines the ways that Korean Americans and Indian Americans of the second generation make sense of their racial status relative to both whites and blacks.

The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Urban Morgan Institute at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Law are pleased to make available the article Establishing a Workable Autonomy in Tibet, written by Michael C. Davis, professor of law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Davis’s article explores China’s historical relationship with Tibet and demonstrates how the failure of China’s current policies has contributed to the growing tension. Most importantly, the author recommends a solution that is based on China’s own constitution. This article is required reading for those wishing for a richer understanding of this issue and a discussion of a pragmatic and tenable movement towards resolution.

The Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved is marking Black History Month with the publication of its February issue. Among the many articles is one that reports on a study exploring why low-income and minority women are less likely than other women to be screened for breast and cervical cancer at an early stage in the cancer’s growth. Patricia Isabel Documet, M.D., Ph.D., the lead researcher, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. She is interviewed by the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Jackie Judd.

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The Hopkins Review was featured on WYPR 88.1’s Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast. Susan McCallum-Smith reviews the first edition (Winter, 2008) of the resurrected literary quarterly journal The Hopkins Review, a collaboration between the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and the Johns Hopkins University Press. McCallum-Smith raved, "Baltimore finally has a magazine that proves it does read, and it reads way, way beyond the 3rd grade level." For more information and to hear the audio from the show visit WYPR’s website. For more information on the journal visit The Hopkins Review.