WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian and Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc. have established a publishing partnership for the marketing and distribution of scholarly publications under the new Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press imprint. The new Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press will focus on scholarly works for academic, scientific and library audiences. The books will be written by scholars from the Smithsonian’s museums and research organizations. Plans call for scholarly publications in categories such as science, zoology, anthropology, archeology, history, art and art history, aviation and space, textiles and design. The new imprint will continue to publish the Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series, which began in 1956.

“The new Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press re-establishes the Institution’s scholarly publications program,” said David Evans, the Under Secretary for Science. “The imprint’s focus on the scholarly work of the Smithsonian’s curators and researchers combined with Rowman & Littlefield’s standing in the academic and scholarly community, as both a publisher and a distributor, enhances our mission for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.”

Founded in 1949, Rowman & Littlefield is a major independent academic and textbook publisher based in Lanham, Md. For more information, visit the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press Web site at www.scholarlypress.si.edu.