“Johns Hopkins University Press is one of the largest and the oldest university publisher in North America,” said Steven Hall, senior vice president, publishing for ProQuest Information and Learning.  “It is known not only for book publishing but also for its excellent scholarly periodicals. Our databases will be richer for the addition of these journal titles in classics, literature, politics and science.”

Included are key titles such as American Imago, American Quarterly, Callaloo, Eighteenth Century Studies, Human Rights Quarterly,  Journal of the History of Philosophy, Literature and Medicine,  Modern Fiction Studies, Perspectives in Biology & Medicine, Shakespeare Quarterly, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Technology and Culture, and World Politics.

None of the content is subject to any embargoes. In addition, the agreement grants ProQuest rights to digitize complete backfiles of 17 titles as part of the company's PCI Full Text archival database. Most titles are available in ProQuest products now. ProQuest customers can sign up for the ProQuest specialized email notification lists at: http://www.proquest.com/proquest/em-notecontent.shtml to receive notification when remaining titles are added.

Founded in 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins is the oldest university press in continuous operation in North America. It is also one of the largest university presses, publishing upward of 170 new books and 52 journals each year with a staff of over 100. Paralleling its book publishing program is a flourishing program of scholarly periodicals. The Press began publishing in 1878 with the launch of the American Journal of Mathematics, the oldest math journal in the Western Hemisphere in continuous publication. Soon after, the American Journal of Philology was founded in 1880, establishing a firm foundation for the Press' reputation for superb scholarly publishing.

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