Project MUSE News: Over Fifty Publishers Contracted for UPCC

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

Over Fifty Publishers Contracted to Participate in UPCC eBook
Collections on Project MUSE

Project MUSE is pleased to announce that 51 distinguished
scholarly publishers have signed contracts to participate in the
forthcoming UPCC eBook Collections, to be offered on the MUSE
platform beginning January 1, 2012. UPCC (University Press
Content Consortium) collections will offer top quality
book-length scholarship, fully integrated with MUSE's full-text
scholarly journal content, with library-friendly access and usage
terms and affordable tiered pricing.

Among the new publishers joining the initiative are Pennsylvania
State University Press, Georgetown University Press, Northwestern
University Press, Cork University Press, Hong Kong University
Press, University of Texas Press, Vanderbilt University Press,
University of Arizona Press, Southern Illinois University Press,
and Wilfrid Laurier University Press. The newly confirmed
participants bring strengths in indigenous studies, comparative
literature, Latin American studies, theater, Irish studies, and
Jewish studies, among others, and will supplement anticipated
content depth in areas such as literary criticism, policy
studies, religion, gender studies, bioethics, and history of
medicine and technology.

UPCC eBook Collections will be offered for purchase, with
perpetual access rights and unlimited usage, downloading, and
printing. Book content will be in PDF format, searchable and
retrievable to the chapter level. By late summer 2011, MUSE will
unveil a beta version of a new search interface encompassing both
journal and book content, with sophisticated post-search
filtering options, running on a parallel platform featuring free
sample book content for libraries and users to explore. Pricing
and purchase details for the book collections to be released in
January will be available no later than October 1.

"Watching the list of participating presses expand, and fielding
the enthusiastic inquiries from our library customers, provide
confirmation that the MUSE/UPCC model effectively balances the
needs of publishers and libraries for sustainable institutional
access to scholarly e-books," said Dean Smith, Director, Project
MUSE. "With over fifty publishers confirmed, and more than ten
others in the final stages of the contract process, we expect to
offer the most comprehensive and diverse collection of books
spanning the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences."

The complete list of publishers now contracted to participate in
UPCC eBook Collections on Project MUSE follows. Presses new to
the list are marked with an asterisk.

Baylor University Press
Brookings Institution Press
Cork University Press*
Duke University Press
Duquesne University Press*
ELT Press
Fordham University Press
Gallaudet University Press
Georgetown University Press*
Hong Kong University Press*
Indiana University Press
Jewish Publication Society*
Johns Hopkins University Press
Kent State University Press
Michigan State University Press
Minnesota Historical Society Press*
Northwestern University Press*
New York University Press
Ohio University Press*
Oregon State University Press*
Pennsylvania State University Press*
Purdue University Press*
Rutgers University Press
Slavica Publishers*
Southern Illinois University Press*
SUNY Press*
Syracuse University Press
Temple University Press
Texas A&M University Press*
University of Alabama Press*
University of Arizona Press*
University of Arkansas Press
University of Hawaii Press
University of Michigan Press
University of Nebraska Press
University of Nevada Press*
University of New Mexico Press*
University of Pennsylvania Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
University of Texas Press*
University of Washington Press
University of Wisconsin Press
University Press of Colorado*
University Press of Mississippi*
University Press of New England
Utah State University Press*
Vanderbilt University Press *
Wayne State University Press*
Wesleyan University Press*
West Virginia University Press
Wilfrid Laurier University Press*

More information on the collaboration between Project MUSE and
the UPCC (University Press Content Consortium) on eBooks
Collections may be found at
<http://muse.jhu.edu/about/new/ebook_collections.html>. An
initial set of questions and answers about digital books on MUSE
is at <http://muse.jhu.edu/about/muse/faq_books.html>. Questions
about UPCC eBooks Collections on MUSE may be directed to
muse@press.jhu.edu.

Melanie Schaffner
Marketing and Sales Manager, Project MUSE
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
mbs@press.jhu.edu