August 12, 2005

University Presses Disagree Over Ownership of Women's-History Journal; Cincinnati Researcher Will Turn Over a Portion of Requested Documents to Sherwin-Williams

By ERIC WILLS and LILA GUTERMAN

HISTORY LESSONS: When growth in academic journals surged in the 1980s, Christie Farnham Pope scanned the new titles and found a gap: women's history. So Ms. Pope, then on the faculty of Indiana University, helped found the Journal of Women's History in 1989, persuading Indiana University Press to publish it.

But 15 years later, unhappy with, among other things, the press's marketing of the journal, the editors took it elsewhere. In February 2004, the journal moved to the Johns Hopkins