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The University of Hawaii Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaii. The University of Hawaii Press was founded in 1947, with the mission of advancing and disseminating scholarship by publishing current research in all disciplines of the humanities and natural and social sciences in the regions of Asia and the Pacific. In addition to scholarly monographs, the Press publishes educational materials and reference works such as dictionaries, language texts, classroom readers, atlases, and encyclopedias. During the 2006-2007 fiscal year, the Press published 94 projects: 80 books and monographs and 14 scholarly journals. At 30 June 2007, the Press had published 2,323 books and other media, 1,289 of which are currently in print. With sales of over $3.7 million, the Press is ranked as a mid-sized university publisher by the Association of American University Presses and is considered by scholars to be a leader in the fields in which it publishes. In 2005, UH Press published more academic monographs on East Asia (China, Japan, and Korea) in English than any other university press, and was second only to RoutledgeCurzon among all English-language publishers (Chen & Wang 2008:37). ==History== The Press was established in 1947 at the initiative of University of Hawaii President Gregg M. Sinclair. Its first publications included a reprint of ''The Hawaiian Kingdom'' by Ralph Kuykendall and ''Insects of Hawaii,'' by Elwood C. Zimmerman, both of which have become classics. Other enduring classics from its early years include the ''Hawaiian-English Dictionary,'' by Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel Elbert, first published in 1957, last revised and enlarged in 1986, then reprinted 16 times; and ''Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands,'' by Gavan Daws, whose Press edition was first published in 1974 and reprinted 19 times. In 1971, the University of Hawaii Press combined operations with the East-West Center Press and renamed itself the University Press of Hawaii, thus adding greater coverage of Asia to its previous strength in Hawaii and the Pacific. In 1981, the East-West Center withdrew its subsidy, and the name reverted to University of Hawaii Press, but the focus on Asia continued to grow, so that at least half its titles now focus on Asia, with the other half devoted to Hawaii (30%) and the Pacific (20%). UH Press output included journals from the very beginning. Most of the Press's inaugural budget appropriation was allocated to the journal ''Pacific Science'', whose first issue appeared in 1947. However, ''Pacific Science'' did not bear the UH Press imprint until 1953, two years after ''Philosophy East and West'' made its debut from UH Press (Kamins & Potter 1998:234-240). The number of journals gradually expanded over the next few decades, with the acquisition of ''Oceanic Linguistics'' (in vol. V) in 1966 and ''Asian Perspectives'' (in vol. XII) in 1969, and the founding of ''Korean Studies'' in 1977, ''Biography'' in 1978, ''Buddhist-Christian Studies'' in 1981, and ''Asian Theatre Journal'' in 1984, all initiated at the University of Hawaii. Flush State budgets in the late 1980s and early 1990s permitted several further initiatives by other campus departments. The literary journal ''Mānoa'' and the "island affairs" journal ''The Contemporary Pacific'' made their debut in 1989, followed by the ''Journal of World History'' in 1990, and then ''China Review International'' in 1994, just before severe budget cutbacks eliminated all university subsidies to the Journals Department. Journals production struggled along, with some editorial offices assuming more of the burden, until Press subsidies were partially restored in 1998 and the department was restaffed. All 12 journals made their debut in the Project MUSE database of journals in the humanities and social sciences in 2000-2001, but ''Pacific Science'' switched to the BioOne collection of natural science journals in 2008. The ''Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers'' began publishing with UH Press in 2000 (in vol. 62) and made its debut in Project MUSE in 2004. The Asia Society's ''Archives of Asian Art'' began publishing with UH Press in 2007 (in vol. 57). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「University of Hawaii Press」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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