Johns Hopkins University Press, the oldest academic press in America, has announced that Barbara Kline Pope will become director of the Press this fall after 34 years with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Since 1997, Pope has served as executive director of the National Academies Press, steering its traditional print model through an era of digital innovation, including pioneering experiments with open access. She first joined the Washington, D.C., press—the publishing division of the National Academies—in a marketing role in 1983.
In addition to that experience, Pope says, her recent term as president of the Association of American University Presses and seat on the management board at MIT Press help her better familiarise herself with the nuances and trends of university presses.
At JHU Press, Pope will oversee the largest journal publication program of any university in the U.S.—the press publishes more than 85 journals across a range of disciplines. It is also home to a books division with more than 3,000 titles that publishes 150 new books each year. It also includes Project MUSE, a leading provider of digital content in the social sciences and humanities for libraries around the world.
Pope takes over the historic press, which dates to 1878, as the focus of scholarly publishing continues to evolve from printed books and journal subscriptions toward new digital trends and open-access distribution. Under the direction of Pope's predecessor, Kathleen Keane, who retired in April, JHU Press has pursued new paths in this direction, with Project MUSE adding 45,000 e-books and developing MUSE Open, a platform for hosting open-access monographs.
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