A few seats are still available for both the Project MUSE User Group Meeting and Market Research forum at ACRL in Indianapolis, IN.
User Group Meeting
There is a lot going on at MUSE this year, such as the new partnership with YBP for single title book purchases, and we hope you can join us for a light breakfast while we bring you up to date on new initiatives at MUSE.
To register for the User Group Meeting, please RSVP to muse@press.jhu.edu with your name, institution and number of people attending.
User Group Meeting:
Friday, April 12
7:30-8:30am
Westin, Indianapolis, Grand Ballroom
Market Research Opportunity
Project MUSE will be conducting market research on the potential for adding reference works and primary source material to our platform. One topic for discussion is a proposed project to make available on the MUSE platform the first-ever critical edition of the complete prose of the influential modernist T.S. Eliot.
We are seeking literature subject specialists, collection development librarians, and electronic resources librarians from academic and research libraries who would be willing to join us for a small group discussion. Lunch will be provided and participants will receive a small present as a token of appreciation for their participation.
To register, please send your name, title, and library affiliation to the contact listed. More information will be provided upon confirmation of your participation. We appreciate your assistance in envisioning the next phase of MUSE!
Market Research Session at ACRL
Thursday, April 11
12:00-1:30pm (lunch included)
RSVP to mbs@press.jhu.edu
Project MUSE will also be exhibiting at ACRL at booth #921. Please stop by to find out what’s new at MUSE if you are not able to join us for the User Group meeting. Thank you for your continued support of Project MUSE! We look forward to seeing you in Indianapolis.
Kathleen Obbagy
Library Outreach and Communications Specialist
Project MUSE
Project MUSE Partners with HighWire
BALTIMORE, MD & STANFORD, CA – 3 April 2013
The Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) has reached an agreement with Stanford University's HighWire Press to transition to the HighWire Open Platform as the new digital hosting and delivery platform for Project MUSE.
Over the past year, JHUP and its digital publishing unit Project MUSE have conducted an extensive search for a technology partner to assist in expanding the capacity of Project MUSE to support its current content offering and allow MUSE to pursue opportunities in developing new products, business models and service offerings for its growing community of more than 200 publishers and 2700 libraries.
"HighWire brings a wealth of experience in hosting content for publishers and MUSE will leverage that experience in developing a similar hosting model for the humanities and social sciences," said Dean Smith, Director of Project MUSE. "Our vision is to deliver the definitive state-of-the-art research environment in servicing our communities of publishers, libraries, and researchers."
"HighWire is committed to the widespread dissemination of scholarly research and to the latest advancements in information technology. They have developed a sophisticated platform and protocol for constant improvement that has served the needs of academic publishers large and small," said Kathleen Keane, Director of JHUP. "The Johns Hopkins University Press shares the objective of making scholarly research content available and usable."
HighWire's history tracks very closely with that of Project MUSE, with similar missions and both having launched in 1995. Several of HighWire's publishing partners (Duke University Press, The Oxford University Press, and the University of Wisconsin Press) also have content on the MUSE platform.
"We are proud to welcome such a prestigious leader in the humanities and social sciences to the HighWire community," said Tom Rump, Managing Director of HighWire. "We are excited to provide our innovative hosting platform to Project MUSE to ensure the highest levels of content integration, discoverability, and end-user engagement. Given the deep understanding of their customers' needs and their vision for the future of ebooks and publishing, MUSE will be an inspired digital partner."
"This partnership offers new collaboration opportunities for MUSE and HighWire to advance the thought leadership, end-user research, and publisher communities that each organization has pursued individually," affirmed John Sack, Founding Director of HighWire. "We look forward to finding ways in which together we can foster the next evolution of research communication."
The successful expansion of the Project MUSE publishing program is highly dependent on an advanced delivery infrastructure that combines rich functionality, customizability and a collaborative relationship with an innovative vendor of proven track record such as HighWire. This dynamic relationship will enable Project MUSE to create new products, incorporate new content types such as online references, foster personalization and collaboration, and continue to provide a sustainable model for libraries, publishers and researchers.
About JHUP/Project MUSE
A division of the JHU Press, Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Since 1995 the MUSE journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE is a trusted source of complete, full-text versions of 580 scholarly journals and more than 20,000 books from the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC). Over 200 of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies currently contribute content to MUSE.
About HighWire Press
At the forefront of strategic scholarly publishing, HighWire Press provides the latest in digital content development and hosting solutions to the scholarly community through its ground-breaking HighWire Open Platform. A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire partners with influential societies, university presses, and other independent publishers, sharing ideas and innovations in publishing, and producing definitive online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, books, reference works, and other scholarly content. Since its inception in 1995, HighWire has embodied a commitment to helping publishers disseminate their content to the widest possible audience, facilitating the research communication process to meet the ever-changing needs of today's online and mobile readers. Twitter: @highwirepress highwire.stanford.edu
For more information, contact:
For Project MUSE
Dean J. Smith
Director, Project MUSE
djs@press.jhu.edu
410-516-6981
For HighWire:
Bonnie Zavon
Public Relations
HighWire | Stanford University
bzavon@stanford.edu
650-723-0522
Single Title Purchasing of UPCC Books on MUSE Now Available Through YBP
Single-title purchasing of selected digital books from the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC) on the Project MUSE platform is now available through MUSE's partnership with YBP Library Services. Over 14,000 UPCC titles in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences may be discovered and ordered via GOBI3 (Global Online Bibliographic Information), YBP's acquisition and collection management interface.
UPCC books on MUSE offer DRM-free content with unlimited simultaneous usage, downloading, and printing; mobile accessibility on any PDF-compatible device; perpetual access rights; and full integration with MUSE's extensive journal content for searching, browsing, and discovery.
Through GOBI3, YBP's library customers may discover all the UPCC titles offered for individual purchase, and may elect to receive new title notification or have titles automatically delivered by the MUSE platform through YBP's eApproval program.
Participating publishers select the books they wish to make available via the single title purchasing program facilitated by YBP, and set the prices for their titles. Sixty-seven (67) university press and related scholarly publishers are offering books for individual purchase on MUSE, from among the 84 presses contributing to the UPCC program.
Project MUSE now provides access to well over 20,000 books from the many distinguished academic presses participating in UPCC. Books are offered for purchase in collections organized by subject and/or publication date, via two subscription options (one for current titles and one featuring backlist books), and now for single-title ordering through YBP. With this variety of flexible acquisition options, libraries may develop a strategy for the UPCC content that best meets local needs and budget situations.
For purchasing and program information, interested libraries should contact sales@ybp.com or visit www.ybp.com. For more information about UPCC/MUSE, including a list of publishers with books available for single-title purchasing, visit http://muse.jhu.edu/about/order/book_purchase.html or contact muse@press.jhu.edu.
MUSE is sponsoring a couple of sessions at ACRL where we'd love to hear your feedback.
User Group Meeting
Please join Project MUSE for our User Group Meeting at the upcoming ACRL Conference in Indianapolis, IN. There is a lot going on at MUSE this year, such as the new partnership with YBP for single title book purchases, and we hope you can join us for a light breakfast while we bring you up to date on new initiatives at MUSE.
Details of the User Group Meeting:
Friday, April 12
7:30 - 8:30 am
Westin, Indianapolis, Grand Ballroom
To register for the User Group Meeting, please RSVP to muse@press.jhu.edu with your name, institution and number of people attending.
Project MUSE will also be exhibiting at ACRL at booth #921. Please stop by to find out what’s new at MUSE if you are not able to join us for the User Group meeting or if you have a question you would like to discuss in greater depth with a MUSE representative.
Market Research Opportunity
Project MUSE will be conducting market research at ACRL in Indianapolis on the potential for adding reference works and primary source material to our platform.
The first part of the discussion will explore digital presentation and acquisition of primary source, reference, and related content, and how this content may best be integrated with MUSE's existing product offerings.
In part two, we will consider specifics on a proposed project to produce and make available on the MUSE platform the first-ever critical edition of the complete prose of the influential modernist T.S. Eliot, comprising more than 700 essays and articles, most never before published.
We are seeking literature subject specialists, collection development librarians, and electronic resources librarians from academic and research libraries who would be willing to join us for a small group discussion. Refreshments will be provided.
If you are interested in participating, please send your name, title, and library affiliation to the contact listed. Seats are limited and registration is required. More information will be provided upon confirmation of your participation. We appreciate your assistance in envisioning the next phase of MUSE!
MUSE Market Research Session at ACRL
Thursday, April 11
12:00 - 1:30 pm (lunch included)
RSVP to mbs@press.jhu.edu
Thank you for your continued support of Project MUSE! We look forward to seeing you in Indianapolis.
Kathleen Obbagy
Library Outreach and Communications Specialist
Project MUSE
