2008 MUSE E-Newsletter Archive

September

May

September 25, 2008
From: enews@muse.jhu.edu
Subject: [MUSE e-news] Project MUSE e-Newsletter

Issue 5 - September 2008

Welcome to the latest issue of The MUSE Letter. In this quarterly
newsletter you will find a summary of what’s new at MUSE including new
journals added online each quarter, tools for using MUSE effectively,
conferences where MUSE staff will be available to meet with you, and new
subscribers and consortium partners. We welcome your comments about and
suggestions for the newsletter as it evolves into what we hope is a
useful tool for all those working with and using Project MUSE.

Project MUSE: http://muse.jhu.edu

1. Content Update
2. Tools & Tips
3. 2009 Title Information
4. MUSE at Conferences
5. New Subscribers and Consortium Partners
6. Comments & Discussion
7. e-Newsletter Subscription Information

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CONTENT UPDATE
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The following 13 new journals went online between April - September
2008:

* IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
E-ISSN: 1934-1547
Print ISSN: 1058-6180
Vol. 30 No. 1
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection.
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/ieee_annals_of_the_history_of_computing


* Journal of Film and Video
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
E-ISSN: 1934-6018
Print ISSN: 0742-4617
Vol. 60 No. 1
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection and Standard Collection.
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/journal_of_film_and_video

Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
E-ISSN: 1930-1200
Print ISSN: 1075-7201
Issue 12-13
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection.
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/contagion

* Quaker History
Publisher: Friends Historical Association
E-ISSN: 1934-1504
Print ISSN: 0033-5053
Vol. 97 No. 1
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection.
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/quaker_history

* Ohio History
Publisher: The Kent State University Press
E-ISSN: 1934-6042
Print ISSN: 0030-0934
Vol. 114
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection.
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/ohio_history

* Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada
Publisher: Classical Association of Canada:
E-ISSN: 1913-5416
Print ISSN: 1496-9343
Vol. 7 No. 1
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection and Humanities Collection
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/mouseion_journal_of_the_classical_association_of_canada


* WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly
Publisher: The Feminist Press
E-ISSN: 1934-1520
Print ISSN: 0732-1562
Vol. 36 Nos. 1 and 2
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection and Standard Collection
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/wsq

* Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation
Publisher: Indiana University Press
E-ISSN: 1933-7418
Print ISSN: 1559-2936
Vol. 3 No. 1
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection.
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/txc

* Population, English version
Publisher: Institut national d'études démographiques
E-ISSN: 1958-9190
Print ISSN: 1634-2941
Vol. 63 No. 1
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/population

* The Global South
Publisher: Indiana University Press
E-ISSN: 1932-8656
Print ISSN: 1932-8648
Vol. 2 No. 1
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection.
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/the_global_south

* Oral History Review
Publisher: Oxford University Press
E-ISSN: 1533-8592
Print ISSN: 0094-0798
Vol. 35 no. 1
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/oral_history_review

* Future Anterior
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
E-ISSN: 1934-6026
Print ISSN: 1549-9715
Vol. 5 No. 1
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/future_anterior

* Studies in the Novel
Publisher: University of North Texas
E-ISSN: 1934-1512
Print ISSN: 0039-3827
Vol. 40 Nos. 1 and 2
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/studies_in_the_novel

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TOOLS & TIPS
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* New MUSE Website

MUSE launched its newly designed website in August. Highlights of the
new design include:

- Left and right navigation bars to facilitate access to information on
the site
- Horizontal tabs along the top of the pages for a consistent look and
a direct path to information
specific to librarians and publishers.
- Prominent links to information about MUSE and for subscribing to
MUSE
- Prominent links to training guides, usage statistics, journal
homepages, journal holdings information.
- Search box in the upper right corner on all pages; a convenient way
to initiate a quick search of MUSE
journals content.
- Ability to search only the informational pages; to quickly locate key
details such as pricing, upcoming
journal additions, or supported technologies.
- Indicators that show to which content users have full text access, at
both the journal and article level
- Linked subject headings. Linked LCSH in each article help users
locate more articles related to their
research topic.

New Functions at the Article Level:

- Ability to email a link to the article
- Ability to find more MUSE articles by the same author(s)
- Ability to download/export a citation
- Ability to explore topics by subject with linked LCSH subject
headings
- Ability to bookmark and share using links to popular social
bookmarking web sites

Upcoming New Features

Coming later during the fall and winter:
- Reference linking and a “Related Articles” list at the journal
article level
- New cover sheet for the PDF versions of articles with functionality
comparable to the HTML articles
- SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative)
implementation (MUSE is seeking library testing partners for this
feature. Libraries interested in participating in SUSHI testing should
contact MUSE Customer Support at muse at press.jhu.edu.

We welcome feedback, comments and questions about the new website. To
comment, send an email to muse at press.jhu.edu.


* MUSE on Facebook

MUSE has a page on Facebook. Visit the MUSE page to:

- Become a fan of MUSE; write on our wall or tell us what you think
about the new MUSE website.
- Run a search for articles in MUSE using the search application on the
page. The new search box that
appears on each page of the MUSE website also displays on the MUSE
page on Facebook.
- Add the MUSE search application to your own Facebook page.

Check out the MUSE page at:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=727679222#/pages/Project-MUSE/18038965834?ref=share.


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2009 TITLE INFORMATION
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* 42 New Titles Coming to MUSE in 2009

The following titles are confirmed to date to join MUSE’s online
collections in 2009.

African American Review
American Music
An Sionnach: a journal of literature, culture, and the arts
Anthropological Linguistics
Archives of Asian Art
Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture
Black women, gender & families
Bulletin of the Comediantes
The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
The Byron Journal
Canadian Public Policy
Conservative Judaism
La corónica: a journal of medieval Spanish language, literature and
cultural studies
Franciscan Studies
Genocide Studies and Prevention
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Histoire social/Social history
Historically Speaking
Hume Studies
International Development Planning Review
International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
Intertexts
JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Journal of Education Finance
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
Journal of Song-Yuan Studies
MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.
The Middle East Journal
Le mouvement social
The Pluralist
Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Perspectives
Revista Hispánica Moderna
Romani Studies
Studies in American Jewish Literature
Studies in American Naturalism
Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Tenso
The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville
Town Planning Review
U.S. Catholic Historian
Western American Literature
Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature

The complete list of new titles for 2009, including publisher and print
ISSN, and a list of updates to all collections may be found at
http://muse.jhu.edu/about/new/upcoming.html.

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MUSE AT CONFERENCES
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Frankfurt Book Fair
October 15-19
Frankfurt, Germany
Stand: Hall 8.0 N978

Charleston Library Conference and Vendor Fair
November 5-8
Charleston, SC
Table # 36

Sofia2008 Conference
November 12-14
Sofia, Bulgaria

Online Information Conference
December 2-4
London, England
Stand #760

If you are attending, please stop by, say hello, and let us know how we
can make MUSE better!

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NEW SUBSCRIBERS
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Among others, MUSE recently welcomed the following new subscribers:

Cedar Park High School - Cedar Park, TX
Glenbrook South High School - Glenview, IL
Hill School - Middleburg, VA
Malvern Preparatory School - Malvern, PA
Oak Park & River Forest High School - Oak Park, IL
Parish Episcopal School- Dallas, TX
South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities -
Greenville, SC
St Paul Academy - St. Paul, MN
Westerville South High School - Westerville, OH

American International School/Dhaka - Dhaka, Bangladesh
The American School in Switzerland - Montagnola, Switzerland
International Grammar School - Ultimo, NSW, Australia
Melbourne Grammar School - Melbourne, Australia
Newington College - Stanmore, NSW, Australia
Our Lady of Mercy @ Parramatta - Parramatta, NSW, Australia
United International College - Zhuhai, China

Hawaii State Public Library System - HI

American Embassy Information Resource Center - Cairo, Egypt
Department of State - Washington, DC
International Center for Transitional Justice - New York, NY
Rand Corporation - Santa Monica, CA
Royal Danish Military Library - Copenhagen, Denmark

California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA
Fort Lewis College - Durango, CO
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts - Portland, ME
Johnson County Community College - Overland Park, KS
Montana State University - Billings, MT
Mount Aloysius College - Cresson, PA
New York Law School Library - New York, NY
Schreiner University - Kerrville, TX
Siena College - Loudonville, NY
St. Francis College - Brooklyn Heights, NY
SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology - Cobleskill, NY
Vermont College Union Institute and University - Montpelier, VT

British University in Egypt - Cairo, Egypt
Fundacion Universidad Oberta De Catalunya - Barcelona, Spain
Hellenic American University - Athens, Greece
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia - St. Petersburg, Russia
Indian Institute of Management Indore - Indore, India
Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee - Roorkee, India
Instituto Educacional Franklin D. Roosevelt - Lima, Peru
Khon Kaen University - Khon Kaen, Thailand
Republic Polytechnic - Singapore
Tianjin Foreign Studies University - Tianjin, China
Universidad de Los Andes - Bogotá, Columbia
Universitas Pelita Harapan - Karawaci Tangerang, Indonesia
University of Plymouth - Plymouth, United Kingdom
University of St. Andrews - St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

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COMMENTS & DISCUSSION
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The topic for discussion in this issue is Facebook and the library.
MUSE has just added a page on Facebook.

*** Does your library have a page on Facebook?

*** What kind of activity are you seeing on your Facebook page?

*** Are you pleased with the results so far? What more do you plan to
add to your page?

We’d love to hear any and all ideas. Please feel free to use this
newsletter as an opportunity to share ideas, strategies, successes and
frustrations in using MUSE to support faculty and students. Send your
ideas and comments, or suggestions for future topics for this section to
MUSE Customer Support at muse at press.jhu.edu.

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SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
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We hope you found this issue of The MUSE Letter helpful. Please forward
this newsletter to any co-workers who might be interested in
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May 05, 2008
From: enews@muse.jhu.edu
Subject: [MUSE e-news] Project MUSE e-Newsletter

Issue 4 - May 2008

Welcome to the latest issue of The MUSE Letter. This quarterly
newsletter provides a summary of what?s new at MUSE including new
journals added online each quarter, tools for using MUSE effectively,
conferences where MUSE staff will be available to meet with you,
selected search activity, and new subscribers and consortium partners.
We welcome your comments about and suggestions for the newsletter as it
evolves into what we hope is a useful tool for all those working with
and using Project MUSE.

1. Content Update
2. Tools & Tips
3. 2008 Title Information
4. MUSE at Conferences
5. New Subscribers and Consortium Partners
6. Comments & Discussion
7. e-Newsletter Subscription Information

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CONTENT UPDATE
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The following 7 new journals went online between January - March 2008:


* American Literary Realism
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
E-ISSN: 1940-5103
Print ISSN: 0002-9823
Vol. 40 No. 1
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection and Standard Collection
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/american_literary_realism

* Feminist Teacher
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
E-ISSN: 1934-6034
Print ISSN: 0882-4843
Vol. 18 No. 1
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection and Social Sciences Collection
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/feminist_teacher/

* Goethe Yearbook
Publisher: North American Goethe Society
E-ISSN: 1940-9087
Print ISSN: 0734-3329
Vol. 15
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection.
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/gyr/

* Journal for the Study of Radicalism
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
E-ISSN: 1930-1197
Print ISSN: 1930-1189
Vol. 1 No. 1
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection and Social Sciences Collection
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/jsr/

* The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
E-ISSN: 1941-3599
Print ISSN: 1939-6724
Vol. 1 No. 1
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection.
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/hcy

* Twentieth-Century China
Publisher: The Ohio State University Press:
E-ISSN: 1940-5065
Print ISSN: 1521-5385
Vol. 33 No. 1
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection and Social Sciences Collection
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/twentiethcentury_china/

* Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature &
Culture
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press:
E-ISSN: 1940-512X
Print ISSN: 1058-7446
Vol. 23
Included in: 2008 Premium Collection.
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/journals/wgy/

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TOOLS & TIPS
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* New look for journal articles in Project MUSE

Earlier this year, MUSE announced that it was updating the look of its
website to improve navigation and the user experience when searching
journal content in MUSE. The first phase of updating has just been
unveiled: a new look for the journal articles. MUSE has updated the
look and format of the article page to provide users with more
functionality and more information specific to the article, such as DOI
and LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings) assigned to an article.


The new format debuted in late April. The new format applies to content
recently added and to articles added from April forward. Articles with
dates prior to April 2008 will be converted to the new format in a
phased approach. As we go through the conversion of back articles, you
may see both formats for articles in your search results, the old format
and the new with the added functionality and options. NOTE: the new
format applies to the HTML version of articles. Please let us know of
any comments you have about the new look of the articles. To comment,
send an email to muse@press.jhu.edu.

* Project MUSE Awarded KnowledgeWorks Certification

Project MUSE has been awarded the designation 'KnowledgeWorks
Certified' by long time partner Serials Solutions. MUSE is among the
first content providers to receive this new designation that was created
by Serials Solutions to acknowledge content providers and publishers
with whom they have developed the best possible working relationships.

MUSE has partnered with Serials Solutions for many years to provide
mutual customers with access to MUSE bibliographic metadata and content.
MUSE easily met all the criteria for the new certification, which
included:
- ability to provide periodically updated title lists
- specific bibliographic data
- direct delivery of the data to Serials Solutions in an agreed upon
format.

Mutual customers of Project MUSE and Serials Solutions benefit directly
from this formal recognition of the sharing and delivery of data between
the two: librarians can be assured of receiving high quality
bibliographic data for their Project MUSE collection and the best
possible access to the collection.

* MUSE MARC Records Now Available

MUSE now offers MARC records for journals in each of MUSE's six
collections. MUSE developed the MARC records in response to requests
from librarians. The record sets include:
- full level description in the MARC21 format
- Library of Congress (LC) subject headings
- journals launched as of the beginning of the current
subscription year
- updates added periodically during the year as new journals are
launched.

The MUSE MARC records are available for downloading from the MUSE
website and are offered to subscribing institutions at no charge. For
additional details and instructions for downloading, please refer to the
MARC Records page on the MUSE website:
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/about/librarians/marc_records.html.

* Back Issues Pilot Program

Project MUSE recently added the full range of back issues of two of its
long-held journals:
- Journal of the History of Philosophy
- Journal of Democracy

These back issues were added to the MUSE collections at no additional
charge to subscribers.

The addition of the back issues of these two journals is part of a
pilot program at MUSE to determine the feasibility of expanding coverage
to include back issues. We are in the early stages of the pilot program
and anticipate adding additional back issues for selected journals
published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Current issues of the "Journal of the History of Philosophy" are
available to subscribers of MUSE's Premium, Standard, Basic Research,
Basic College, and Humanities Collections. Subscribers now have access
to all the back issues: Vol. 1, 1963, - Vol. 37, 1999.

Current issues of the "Journal of Democracy" are available to
subscribers of the Premium, Standard, Basic Research, Basic College, and
Social Sciences Collections. Subscribers to those collections now have
access to all back issues: Vol. 1, 1990, - Vol. 5, 1994.

* Training and Promotional material available

Find free MUSE training and promotional material on the For Librarians
page, http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/about/librarians.

- Subject Guides listing MUSE journals by subject
- Guide to Searching MUSE
- Subject-based Outreach Postcards - handy PR tool for faculty and
graduate students
- Colorful Posters
- And more?

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2008 Title Information
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* Title List Change for 2008
One additional title will join the list of titles previously announced
for inclusion in the 2008 Premium Collection and Standard Collection:
"Transition" published by the Indiana University Press. This title is
being added to both collections at no additional charge.

The journal is currently an archive title in the Premium Collection and
the Standard Collection. MUSE will relaunch the title in 2008 beginning
with Number 98. Existing MUSE past issues of this journal, volumes
9(2000)-10(2001), remain available in both the Premium and Standard
collections. There are no plans to fill in the gaps between coverage
years in MUSE due to image matters with the back issues.

A complete list of all new titles for 2008 along with a list of updates
to all collections may be found at
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/about/subscriptions/newtitles_2008.html.


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MUSE AT CONFERENCES
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Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
May 31 - June 3
Vancouver, BC Canada

National Women?s Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference
June 19-22
Cincinnati, OH

ALA Annual Conference
June 28 - July 1
Anaheim, CA
Booth #1796

If you are attending, please stop by, say hello, and let us know how we
can make MUSE better!

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NEW SUBSCRIBERS AND CONSORTIUM PARTNERS
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Among others, MUSE recently welcomed the following new subscribers:

Charles E Smith Jewish Day School - Rockville, MD
College of the Redwoods - Eureka, CA
Harrisburg University of Science & Technology - Harrisburg, PA
Illinois Central College - East Peoria, IL
Indiana University Southeast - New Albany, IN
Liberty University - Lynchburg, VA
Northwestern College - Orange City, IA
Purdue University - West Lafayette, IN
SUNY College at Old Westbury - Old Westbury, NY
University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Lafayette, LA

Adam Mickiewicz University - Poznan, Poland
Bristol University - Bristol, UK
Grande Prairie Regional. College - Alberta, Canada
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati - Guwahati, India
IPP-Esmae, Escola Sup,Musica e das Artes - Porto, Portugal
KOC University - Istanbul, Turkey
Korean National University of Arts - Seoul, Republic of Korea
Kyoto University - Kyoto, Japan
Leicester Academic Library Services - Leicester, UK
Loughborough Univ of Tech - Leicestershire, UK
Max Planck Digital Library - Munich, Germany
National Chung Cheng University - Taiwan, ROC
Osaka University - Osaka, Japan
St Mary's University College - Alberta, Canada
Sung Kyun Kwan University - Seoul, Republic of Korea
Tartu University - Tartu, Estonia
Trinity College Carmarthen - Wales, UK
Universidad de Lleida - Lleida, Spain
Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Bogota, Colombia
Universidad Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona, Spain
Universidad Rovira I Virgili - Tarragona, Spain
Universite de Neuchatel - Neuchatel, Switzerland
University of Exeter - Exeter, UK
University of Helsinki - Helsinki, Finland
University of the West of England - Bristol, UK
University of Wales Bangor - Bangor, UK

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COMMENTS & DISCUSSION
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The topic for discussion this issue is social networking tools and the
extent to which these tools have been incorporated into everyday use at
your institution and library.

*** Are your students and faculty using social bookmarking sites?

*** What are the sites favored by your faculty?

We?d love to hear any and all ideas, including ideas for things that
do not work or are not appealing to students and faculty. Please feel
free to use this as an opportunity to share ideas, strategies, successes
and frustrations in using MUSE to support faculty and students. Send
your ideas and comments, or suggestions for future topics for this
section to Kathy Obbagy at KO@press.jhu.edu. All responses received will
appear anonymously (unless otherwise requested by the person writing) in
the next newsletter.

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We hope you found this issue of The MUSE Letter helpful. Please forward
this newsletter to any co-workers who might be interested in
subscribing. To subscribe, go to the MUSE ?For Librarians? page,
http://muse.jhu.edu/content/ml/about/librarians, and click on
*Subscribe to e-Newsletter*. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, please
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