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Hopkins Press goes All In to #TeamUP on the University Campus
Being an active part of our university community is a vital, ongoing goal for Hopkins Press. This year’s Democracy Day, held on the campus of Johns Hopkins University, was a great opportunity to accomplish that mission.The inspiring event, held on a crisp...
The Hopkins Press Podcast: Why we #TeamUp to make academic research engaging and accessible
Since 2016, the Hopkins Press Podcast has produced a steady stream of interviews with scholars and editors about their research published in the Hopkins Press Journals. Through this podcast, we aim to make academic research engaging and accessible through...
Designer Bob Cronan on “Distilling Complexity Into Straightforward Visuals”
JHU Press recently invited me to comment on my collaboration with them over the past decade, creating maps, infographics and spot illustrations for books. So far, I’ve completed more than 20 projects for JHU Press, including the double page graphic pictured...
Read. Think. Act.
I’m at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. Every year, I come to this meeting and talk to people who are, in a sense, trying to save the world. Climate change, gun violence, the opioid crisis—there’s almost no terrible news that I won...
Print Plus: A Blueprint for Open Access in the Humanities
The Modernism/modernity Print Plus platform, winner of the 2019 Prose Award for Innovations in Journal Publishing is a successful and innovative collaboration between the Modernist Studies Association and the Journals division of the Johns Hopkins University...
Embracing Open Access and Revisiting a Scholar’s First Books
Being committed to open access publishing of scholarly works by salaried faculty and having chosen to have five books published in the last decade or so with a pioneering British open access publisher, I am delighted that the Johns Hopkins University Press...
Notes from My Year as a Cyber Investigator
Much of the creative energy in the University Press world is committed to pushing in new directions, whether they are new directions in research, advanced strategies for marketing and publicizing books, or new scheduling experiments. When I heard of the...
Happy Open Access Week
Who doesn’t love something for free? Free speech? Free Wi-Fi? Free beer? In celebration of the Tenth Open Access Week, I’ll throw in free scholarship. Yes, books and journals for free. No catch. Free. Take all you want. At Johns Hopkins University Press, we...
The Importance of Book Reviews
The age-old academic adage of "publish or perish" still exists. Publishing a book can play a critical role in the future of any academic. However, one piece of that important puzzle plays an important role in the journals published by the JHU Press. Book...
JHUP Adds Two Journals to Collection
The Johns Hopkins University Press has added two new journals to its exceptional collection of humanities and social sciences publications. The Journal of Chinese Religions is the official publication of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions...