Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) is the oldest continuously running university press in the United States. Founded in 1878 as a division of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, it began by publishing the American Journal of Mathematics (1878) and the American Chemical Journal (1879), and today publishes about 90 scholarly journals and more than 200 new books each year. Its journals program is concentrated in the humanities, social sciences, and medicine - including some of the most storied titles in American scholarship, such as ELH, MLN, American Quarterly, and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.

JHUP is also the home of Project MUSE, the online platform it created with the university's Milton S. Eisenhower Library in 1993 (online since 1995). MUSE now hosts 800+ journals and 100,000+ ebooks from roughly 400 non-profit publishers and scholarly societies, making JHUP a central piece of humanities and social-science publishing infrastructure well beyond its own list.

This guide covers what JHUP publishes, what it costs (usually nothing), how peer review works, and how to submit.

Many JHUP journals are published on behalf of scholarly societies, so check whether the society runs the editorial office - submission instructions sometimes live on the society's site rather than press.jhu.edu.

• ~90 peer-reviewed journals, mostly quarterly, in literature, history, philosophy, classics, area studies, political science, education, and the history of medicine. A large share are official journals of learned societies.
• 200+ new books per year across trade, scholarly, and reference lists - notably strong in health and medicine, history of science and technology, and higher education.
• Project MUSE - not a journal but the distribution platform; virtually all JHUP journals are read there, alongside titles from hundreds of other university presses.

JHUP's journals are overwhelmingly subscription-based, which for authors means the opposite of the big commercial STM publishers: most JHUP journals charge no fee to publish.

Because fees are rare, JHUP has no large-scale waiver program of the kind APC-driven publishers run; where a charge exists, waiver questions are handled by the individual journal's editorial office.

• Model: double-anonymized review is the norm across JHUP's humanities and social-science titles, in line with HSS practice; some society-run journals use single-anonymized review.
• Who runs it: editorial offices are often housed at the sponsoring society or the editor's university rather than at the press itself.
• Turnaround: humanities review cycles are slower than STM - expect roughly 3-6 months to a first decision at many titles, longer at high-submission flagships.

1. Pick the journal. Browse the JHUP journals list at press.jhu.edu or the journal's page on Project MUSE.
2. Read the submission guidelines. Each journal has its own instructions; society-owned titles may host them on the society's website.
3. Format the manuscript. Chicago style dominates the humanities list; some social-science and medical-history titles use APA or a house variant. SciSpace templates for JHUP journals handle the formatting.
4. Submit through the journal's system. Many titles use Editorial Manager; others accept submissions by email or through society portals - the journal's guidelines page names the route.
5. Respond to review. Decisions come from the journal's editorial office; revised submissions follow the same channel.

JHUP is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and its journals follow COPE guidance on misconduct, corrections, and retractions. As a non-profit university press it carries none of the predatory-publishing risk flags: clearly identified editorial boards, society ownership of many titles, and indexing in Scopus, Web of Science, and the MLA International Bibliography across the list. Copyright and licensing terms vary by journal - authors typically sign a publication agreement, with CC BY available on open-access content.