The University of Pennsylvania Press journals program will continue to expand in 2026, adding a new title and transitioning one of our existing journals to Open Access (announcement coming soon!).
New to Penn Press in 2026
The Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will join our journals program in 2026. For over 40 years, the journal has produced scholarship on the countries of South and Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. Today, a renewed vision of JSAMES moves beyond the geographic, epistemological, and disciplinary boundaries of area studies to bring these fields into shared dialogue. The journal is edited by Samer Abboud and is sponsored by the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at Villanova University. Note: The journal was on hiatus in 2025; 2025 institutional subscribers will have their subscriptions applied to the 2026 volume.
Penn Press continues to expand Open Access efforts
With the inclusion of one of our existing journals who will soon be announcing a transition to Open Access (stay tuned!), the Penn Press journals program now includes six diamond Open Access journals; five additional journals participate in the Project MUSE Subscribe to Open Program. Thank you to the libraries, funders, and other institutions that directly support our OA content as well as subscribing institutions that help maintain our traditional subscription program.
- In 2026, Penn Press will participate in the Open Journals Collective, a collective of libraries and university-based publishers committed to Open Access. Funding received through this initiative will support our diamond OA journals. Please consider supporting this initiative.
- In 2025, Foucault Studies and Observational Studies received funding from the Open Access Community Investment Program; the funds will support the journals for the next three years.
- Select journals have open-access content as part of Project MUSE’s Subscribe to Open Program. This program makes current content openly available if sales of Project MUSE’s Premium Collection reach a minimum sustainability threshold. Participating Penn journals for 2026: Change Over Time, Early American Studies, Eudora Welty Review, French Forum, and Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development. Please consider supporting the Subscribe to Open initiative by maintaining direct subscriptions to these titles or by subscribing to the Project MUSE Premium Collection.
2026 prices now available
Penn Press journals’ 2026 pricing is now available. Our journal prices continue to be among the most affordable in the scholarly publishing community. View pricing information on our website: https://www.pennpress.org/order/#journalrates.
Journal Subscription Fulfillment Now Provided by the Sheridan Press
We are pleased to share that we have partnered with the Sheridan Press for subscription fulfillment, digital access, and claims. Libraries and subscription agents can place their orders directly with Sheridan using the contact information below:
Email: pubsvc.tsp@sheridan.com
Phone: 717-632-3535 (option 3)
Fax: 717-633-8920
Mailing:
PENN PRESS JOURNALS
SUBSCRIBER SERVICES
PO BOX 465
HANOVER, PA 17331
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Additional notes
- The AJS Review will move to Indiana University Press in 2026.
- Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development moved to online-only in 2025
