Johns Hopkins University Press

The Johns Hopkins University Press (also known as JHU Press or JHUP ) is a university press and part of the Johns Hopkins University, based in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1878 and is the oldest continuously operated university press in the United States.

Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1878, only two years after the founding of the University, the publishing office of the university. During the first year the American Journal of Mathematics was published in the second and was followed by the American Chemical Journal. In 1880 the American Journal of Philology. The first book, Sidney Lanier: A Memorial Tribute was published in 1881 in honor of the American poet. 1891, the publisher was renamed Johns Hopkins Press and 1972 he took his present name.

JHU Press published currently over 200 books and 60 scientific journals. Since 1993, the publisher operates the Project MUSE, an online archive of over 380 scholarly journals.