Project MUSE News: 2006 Pricing/Title Information Available

[Melanie Schaffner <melanie@muse.jhu.edu>]

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PROJECT MUSE 2006 SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION AVAILABLE ONLINE

Project MUSE® is pleased to announce more than 30 new journals are
confirmed to date for inclusion in its online journal collections for
2006. Among the new titles are several from the Edinburgh University
Press, which is new to Project MUSE. MUSE is excited to be adding
Edinburgh to its list of 60 not-for-profit presses whose journals have
been selected for the collections. Subscription pricing details and lists
of titles included in the 2006 MUSE collections are now available on our
web site, and may be accessed from the 2006 Subscription Plans and Pricing
overview at http://muse.jhu.edu/about/subscriptions/subscriptions06.html.

As announced at the ALA Annual Conference in June, Project MUSE is
introducing a new collection in 2006, the Premium Collection. (Please see
http://muse.jhu.edu/about/muse/ala_press_release_2005.html for details.)
With many new journals seeking to join MUSE, this collection allows MUSE
to grow while still keeping the commitment we made in 2005 to limit price
increases on current collections to no more than 6%. The Premium
Collection is expected to offer subscribers content from well over 30 new
journal titles, in addition to all current MUSE content, and have a list
price of less than $25,000. As negotiations with new publishers are still
being finalized, we will not be able to announce final pricing for the
Premium Collection until September 1. Please check the web site
periodically for updates to prices and titles for this collection.

Concurrently, we are changing the name of the current 'Full Collection' to
the 'Standard Collection.' For 2006, the Standard Collection includes all
content in the Full Collection, as well as a selectively chosen set of
eight new titles. Selected titles will also be added to the Arts and
Humanities Collection and Social Sciences Collection.  Please see the
individual collection web pages for complete details on title changes to
current MUSE collections.

As introduced in 2005, MUSE pricing is now determined under a model that
assigns to each subscriber a pricing tier and usage quartile.  Tiers are
based upon the institution's Carnegie classification, and should not
typically change from year to year. Usage quartiles are determined by
ranking the institutions within each tier by their actual full-text
article usage in the previous subscription term (in this case, the 2004
subscription year), and dividing into quartiles.  Subscribers that do not
yet have a complete year's worth of usage data are placed in the first
quartile. Quartiles may change from year to year. Any institution which
has experience a quartile change from the last subscription term has
already been individually notified of that change by email. Project MUSE
consortium partners have also received details regarding renewal pricing
for 2006.

Project MUSE subscriptions operate on a calendar year term and all
subscriptions expire on December 31. Questions regarding Project MUSE
renewals and orders for 2006 may be directed to our Subscription Services
department at muse@muse.jhu.edu.

Melanie B. Schaffner
Marketing and Sales Manager, Project MUSE
c/o The Johns Hopkins University Press
2715 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
p 410-516-3846
f 410-516-6968
melanie@muse.jhu.edu