Johns Hopkins University Press and BioOne Announce Landmark Nonprofit Integration

By Johns Hopkins University Press

Baltimore, MD, and Washington, DC, USA, May 5, 2026—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.  

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.

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.

"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.” 

“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!”

Hopkins Press and BioOne are committed to a smooth and transparent transition for all stakeholders with minimal disruption of day-to-day operations.

The deal is expected to close on August 31, 2026, subject to final governance and legal approvals.