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July 01, 2009
From: Kathleen Obbagy <muse@press.jhu.edu>
Project MUSE News: MUSE Adds More Search Features

Project MUSE is excited to announce two new features that help users more easily locate articles relevant to their research. MUSE also introduces a new option to custom print and package articles in MUSE journals.

The new features are:
- A 'Search this Journal' search box. This search box appears on each journal's home page, on the Table of Contents (TOC) of each issue, and on each article. The 'Search This Journal' feature enables a user to quickly check all issues of the journal in MUSE, with a single search, for all articles in that journal pertaining to a particular subject.

- Summaries (abstracts) for articles. MUSE now provides a link for the summary of each article. Users know that the ability to scan summaries of articles is essential to determining which articles are relevant to their research. That ability is now available in MUSE. The Summary links appear on the TOCs and in search results, next to the article format options of HTML and PDF.

New Option for Custom Print
Custom Print is a service provided by Sheridan Press that allows a user to click on a link from MUSE and purchase an article or groups of articles for the purpose of creating a custom publication. MUSE is one of the first online providers to activate this service. The user may choose either print or electronic format for the purchased articles. At this time, articles contained in 'The American Indian Quarterly' published by the University of Nebraska Press are the only articles in MUSE for which this option is available. On the article page, look for the link 'Custom Print' to initiate the transaction.

MUSE on Facebook
MUSE has been on Facebook for some time now, but we just secured our own URL and wanted to pass the word on to MUSE users. Find MUSE at www.facebook.com/ProjectMUSE. Become a fan of MUSE! You can also follow us on Twitter, @ProjectMUSE.

For any questions or comments about the new features, please email us at muse@press.jhu.edu.

June 24, 2009
From: Melanie Schaffner <muse@press.jhu.edu>
Project MUSE News: New titles, updates for 2010; back issues expansion

PROJECT MUSE ANNOUNCES NEW TITLES, COLLECTION UPDATES, PRICES FOR 2010
Expansion of back issue program to provide complete run of content from many titles

Project MUSE is pleased to announce that 11 new titles have been confirmed to date for addition to its online journal collections in 2010. Contracts are pending with several new publishers and MUSE expects to announce up to five additional titles for next year. List pricing for the journal collections for 2010 has also been set. MUSE is also excited to expand its pilot program incorporating previous volumes of MUSE titles into the collection holdings. Back issues from over 60 journal titles will be made available at no additional cost to subscribers over a four-year period beginning in 2010.

The following journals are confirmed to join MUSE in 2010:
American Book Review
Black Camera: a micro journal of black film studies
Black Music Research Journal
Canadian Theatre Review
Collaborative Anthropologies
Hispania: a journal devoted to the interests of the teaching of Spanish and Portuguese
Journal of Modern Periodical Studies
Native South
Pennsylvania History: a journal of Mid-Atlantic studies
Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences
Studies in American Fiction

In light of current economic conditions, MUSE is strictly moderating the growth of the journal collections for 2010, resulting in significantly smaller price increases than in previous years. The 2010 price for the Premium Collection, MUSE's flagship journal collection, represents an increase of only 6%, half that of previous years' increases. All journals joining MUSE for 2010 will be included in the Premium Collection.

Prices for the Project MUSE Standard, Basic Research, Basic College, and Humanities collections are increasing by only 4%. Additional titles will be included in each of these collections for 2010, as follows:

Standard Collection:
The Middle East Journal
Sewanee Review
Studies in the Novel

Basic Research Collection:
American Music
Classical World
Comparative Drama

Basic College Collection:
American Music
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Transactions of the American Philological Association

Humanities Collection:
Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum
La corónica: a journal of medieval Spanish language, literature and
cultural studies
Journal of Modern Greek Studies
Theory & Event
U.S. Catholic Historian

The price for the MUSE Social Sciences Collection will remain flat from 2009 as a result of the attrition of some titles and the addition of very few titles in this area for 2010. Project MUSE continues to offer tiered pricing based upon institutional Carnegie classification and relative usage for North America, and on World Bank country income classes and institutional programming for the rest of the world.

One title, River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, will cease to contribute new content to Project MUSE after 2009. The title will no longer be published by MUSE participating publisher, the University of Nebraska Press.

BACK ISSUES TO BE ADDED

MUSE will be incorporating back issues of many journals, adding value to our collections and enhanced depth to users' research experience. During the pilot phase of this initiative, MUSE added back issues of selected journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, in several cases resulting in the complete run of a title being made available online. Starting in July 2010 and continuing over the next three years, MUSE will be adding a significant number of back issues from other publishers. Through a cost-sharing arrangement with the participating titles, MUSE is able to make the back issue content available without an increase in cost to subscribers.

During the second half of 2010, MUSE expects to launch back issues for these titles:
Biography (full run)
English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
Ethics and the Environment
The Henry James Review (full run)
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (full run)
Journal of Modern Greek Studies (full run)
Journal of Women's History (full run)
Legacy (full run)
L'esprit Createur
Race/Ethnicity (full run)
Rhetoric and Public Affairs (full run)
Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture
Theatre Topics (full run)

Back issues for more than 50 other titles are expected to launch in the subsequent three years (2011-2013), with batches of back issue content released up to three times per year, grouped by subjects. Over half will result in full runs for the journal being available in MUSE. Any MUSE journal for which archival content is not already available in JSTOR may participate in the back issue program at the publisher’s choice. Each title’s back issues will be accessible by any subscriber to a collection that includes the title.

Additional announcements regarding new MUSE titles and publishers will be made in the coming months, and complete details, including pricing information, will be available on the MUSE web site by mid-July. Specific information regarding 2010 institutional renewals will be distributed to current subscribers and consortium affiliates in July and August; libraries that subscribe via a consortial arrangement should inquire about renewal options with their consortium offices. Questions regarding MUSE's 2010 journal collections and subscription offerings may be directed to muse@press.jhu.edu.


Melanie Schaffner
Marketing and Sales Manager, Project MUSE
The Johns Hopkins University Press
2715 N Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
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melanie@muse.jhu.edu

April 09, 2009
From: Melanie Schaffner <muse@press.jhu.edu>
Project MUSE News: Changes to 2009 Liverpool University Press titles

Change in Titles from Liverpool University Press Joining MUSE in 2009

Liverpool University Press (LUP) is a recent addition to Project MUSE's list of participating publishers, signing up to contribute content from six titles to the MUSE online journal collections beginning in 2009. For business reasons, LUP has made changes to the list of journals which will be participating in MUSE. International Development Planning Review and Town Planning Review, both previously announced as joining MUSE in 2009, will not be contributing content to MUSE. Two other journals from LUP will instead begin contributing content in 2009: Music Sound and the Moving Image, and Science Fiction, Film and Television. Coverage for both of these titles in MUSE will begin with Volume 1, Issue 1. Content from both titles should appear online shortly.

Four other titles from LUP, previously announced as joining MUSE in 2009, will be contributing content as planned: The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, The Byron Journal, Romani Studies, and the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Two of these titles, The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, have already launched their first issues online in MUSE.

Project MUSE has been a successful online publisher for nearly 15 years through the voluntary participation of our publishers and content providers. MUSE currently offers online access to journals from some 100 not-for-profit publishers, of which 60% have contributed current content for five or more years. A dozen major university presses have been participating continuously in MUSE since titles from publishers other than the Johns Hopkins University Press were first welcomed in 2000. For a significant number of university presses and scholarly societies, MUSE is the sole source for current electronic content from some or all of their titles.

Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. MUSE's online journal collections support a diverse array of research needs at academic, special, school, and public libraries worldwide. MUSE currently provides full-text access to content from over 400 titles. MUSE began in 1993 as a pioneering joint project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library (MSEL) at JHU. Grants from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities allowed MUSE to go live with JHU Press journals in 1995. Journals from other publishers were first incorporated in 2000, with additional publishers joining in each subsequent year. MUSE remains a not-for-profit collaboration between the participating publishers and MSEL, with the goal of disseminating quality scholarship via a sustainable model that meets the needs of both libraries and publishers.

For further information about International Development Planning Review and Town Planning Review, please contact the Liverpool University Press at clare.hooper@liv.ac.uk. For questions about Project MUSE, please email us at muse@press.jhu.edu.