Barbara Kline Pope, Director of Johns Hopkins University Press, and Wendy Queen, Director of Project MUSE, will share how the Press is embracing  Open Access publishing to help scholars, students, faculty, and others navigate today’s turbulent world. Topics will include the impact of the pandemic on their decisions, including opening up their own published books and that of other publishers to the world. They will also cover the  impact of those decisions on engagement with the scholarship and touch on the early impact on financial sustainability.  They will encourage a lively discussion of all topics related to OA.   . 

Johns Hopkins University Press is one of the largest university presses and the oldest in the United States, founded in 1878 at the behest of Daniel Coit Gilman. They publish about 140 books a year across the humanities and sciences and nearly 100 journals.  The Press is home to the pioneering Project MUSE that aggregates millions of journal articles and hundreds of thousands of book chapters in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts.  And the Press operates a distribution service to ensure that other university presses can reach scale and thrive.  You can read more about its history here.