Stronger Together: BioOne and Johns Hopkins University Press Join Forces - The Scholarly Kitchen

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Today’s announcement about the planned merger between BioOne and Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Press is noteworthy for two reasons. First, while mergers and acquisitions are commonplace among commercial companies, they are rare among not-for-profits – the only one I’m personally aware of is the NISO/NFAIS merger, which happened just before I joined NISO in late 2019. Second, the most senior levels of our industry continue to be dominated by men, despite the fact that there are estimated to be around twice as many women working in scholarly publishing. And yet this merger was developed, led, and will be executed by three women: Lauren Kane (CEO, BioOne), and Barbara Kline Pope, and Wendy Queen (respectively, Executive Director and Chief Transformation Officer, Hopkins Press)."