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Company Database:
Johns Hopkins University Press
( Johns Hopkins Press )
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| Homepage |
http://www.press.jhu.edu/ |
| Address |
2715 North Charles Street |
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Baltimore, Md. |
| Zip-code |
21218 |
| Country |
United States |
| Phone |
(410) 516-6900 |
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(410) 516-6968 |
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The Johns Hopkins University Press is the publishing division of the [Johns Hopkins University] . It was founded in 1878 and holds the distinction of being the oldest continuously running [university press] in the [United States] . The JHU Press publishes books, journals, and electronic databases. Its headquarters are in the [Charles Village] neighborhood of [Baltimore] , [Maryland] . Johns Hopkins Press authors include: [Jacques Derrida] , [E.L. Doctorow] , [Newt Gingrich] , [Carlo Ginzberg] , [Donald Kennedy] , [Brian Lamb] , [Victor A. McKusick] , [Frans de Waal] , and [E.O. Wilson] as well as Nobel laureates [Georges Charpak] , [Robert William Fogel] , and [Riccardo Giacconi] .
History
The Johns Hopkins University Press was established in [1878] as the Publication Agency of the Johns Hopkins University by the University's first president, [Daniel Coit Gilman] . Its first publication was the [American Journal of Mathematics] . In [1891] , it was renamed the Johns Hopkins Press and took its current name in [1972] . To date the Press has published more than 6,000 titles and currently publishes 65 scholarly periodicals and approximately 200 new books each year.
Since [1993] , the Johns Hopkins University Press has run [Project MUSE] , a large online digital archive of articles from scholarly journals. The Press also houses Hopkins Fulfilment Services (HFS), which handles distribution for many university presses.
Taken together, the four divisions of the Press (Journals, Muse, Books and HFS) make it the largest of America's university presses with a staff of 130.
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