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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Johns Hopkins University Press and BioOne Announce Landmark Nonprofit Integration<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Baltimore, MD, and Washington, DC, USA, May 5, 2026</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">—Johns Hopkins University Press (Hopkins Press) and BioOne today announced their merger, in a bold move designed
to enhance community impact, expand future opportunities, and transform how they engage with researchers. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">BioOne’s flagship aggregation of bioscience research journals, BioOne Complete, as well as their eBook collections, will continue as discrete and independent products within Hopkins Press. The union promises
significant operating efficiencies and combined scale with Hopkins Press’s Project MUSE, the widely used collection of journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. Both organizations were early adopters of the equitable open access model, Subscribe
to Open. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Wendy Queen, Chief Transformation Officer at Hopkins Press, will lead the integration of BioOne and its staff into Hopkins Press, working closely with BioOne CEO Lauren Kane, who will support the transition through January 2027. All current commitments to BioOne’s community
of participating publishers and supporting libraries will remain in place. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">“For 25 years, BioOne has supported the visibility, independence, and sustainability of global societies and research organizations publishing across the biosciences,” said Kane. “This integration will allow BioOne to
expand and extend this support far into the future, enabling new services, shared infrastructure, and sustaining revenue for our nonprofit community. Hopkins Press shares BioOne’s values and vision for a thriving independent scholarly ecosystem, making them
an ideal partner in this next phase of growth.”</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">“We are thrilled to welcome BioOne to Hopkins Press,” added Barbara Kline Pope, Executive Director of Hopkins Press. “We’ve been long-time collaborators with Lauren and her team, making a formal merger a natural
next step in achieving our mutual goals. So often we talk about the power of mission-driven scholarly organizations coming together to make a bigger impact. Now we are doing just that, and we couldn’t be more excited!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hopkins Press and BioOne are committed to a smooth and transparent transition for all stakeholders with minimal disruption of day to-day operations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The deal is expected to close on August 31, 2026, subject to final governance and legal approvals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">About Johns Hopkins University Press</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Established in 1878, <a href="https://www.press.jhu.edu/">
Johns Hopkins University Press</a> publishes trusted scholarship and connects readers to evidence-based knowledge from leading experts, in alignment with Johns Hopkins University's mission to bring the benefits of discovery to the world. With a portfolio of
four interconnected publishing businesses—Hopkins Press Books, Hopkins Press Journals, Hopkins Fulfillment Services (HFS), and
<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/">Project MUSE</a>—the Press provides global access, impact, and influence for the content it publishes and distributes. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.press.jhu.edu/" target="_blank">www.press.jhu.edu</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">About BioOne</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://bioonepublishing.org/" target="_blank">BioOne</a> is an innovative nonprofit collaborative and the leading content aggregator in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. More
than 150 global scientific societies and nonprofit publishing organizations include their journals in BioOne’s flagship product,<a href="https://bioone.org/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span>BioOne Complete</a>, for the benefit of
5,500 accessing institutions and millions of researchers worldwide. Since 2001, BioOne has returned more than 78 million USD in royalty sharing back to its participants, with a commitment to share research more broadly, equitably, and sustainably. For more
information, visit<a href="https://www.bioonepublishing.org/" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://www.bioonepublishing.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN">www.bioonepublishing.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">Contact</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">Kait Howard, Publicity Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">Johns Hopkins University Press</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="mailto:kehoward@jhu.edu">kehoward@jhu.edu</a>
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