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September 14, 2011

American Historical Association Announces Publishing Partnership with Oxford University Press


New York City, September 14, 2011—The American Historical Association (AHA) announced today it has reached an agreement with Oxford University Press, Inc. (OUP USA) for the publication, promotion, and dissemination of its flagship journal, the American Historical Review (AHR). OUP USA will begin servicing subscriptions starting with the October 2012 issue of the Review. The AHR is the official publication of the AHA and has been the journal of record for the historical profession in the United States since 1895, bringing together scholarship from every major field of historical study. The journal also publishes approximately one thousand book reviews per year, surveying and reporting on the most important contemporary historical scholarship in the discipline.

“The AHA is especially attracted to OUP’s online publishing resources, vision for the digital future, and global sales and marketing reach.  It was a very difficult choice, given the quality of the presses involved and our positive experience with our previous publisher,” said James Grossman, Executive Director of the AHA. “Oxford University Press shares our vision and commitment to the scholarly community and is the ideal collaborator as we consider new ways to deliver the AHR to individual historians and the wide variety of institutions interested in historical scholarship”

As the most cited journal in history, theAHR will expand and strengthen the Oxford Journals list in history, which already includes The Journal of American History, Past and Present,  Environmental History, and theJournal of Social History. The journal will enjoy increased international exposure as it is featured at conferences and meetings in history and other related fields and is included in OUP’s library consortia agreements throughout the world.

“Oxford’s reputation among historians here and abroad is very high,” noted Robert Schneider, Editor of the AHR.  “We are especially eager to work with the press to improve our access to libraries and subscribers outside North America. The AHR also wants to maintain its position at the leading edge of digital publishing in the Humanities. With its impressive in-house technological expertise and its broad experience in this area, OUP offers us the means to move forward in an ever-changing environment of digital publishing.”

Individual and institutional subscribers will receive renewal notices from OUP USA for 2013 for subscription renewals.  All current online or combined subscriptions and all individual subscriptions include electronic access to issues back to 1996. AHR will also be included in the Oxford Journals Digital Archive, making all issues back to volume 1, issue 1 available to Archive customers.

Niko Pfund,President of Oxford University Press, Inc., stated, “We could scarcely be more pleased and honored to be chosen as the publishers of the American Historical Review.  History is both one of the press’s greatest strengths and one of its primary strategic priorities going forward, and this alliance with one of the most influential journals in the world is all the more exciting for the directions in which the AHA wishes to take the journal.”