Project MUSE News: Publishers Contribute New Content to MUSE

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

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PRESS RELEASE

Publishers contribute new content to Project MUSE®

BALTIMORE (December 14, 2004) - Project MUSE® is pleased to announce the
selection of 26 new scholarly, peer-reviewed journals and 7 new publishers
in 2005.  These 26 journals were selected on the basis of their value to
the collections, and their inclusion in indexes and archival collections.

A unique collaboration between academic libraries and university presses
and scholarly societies, MUSE enables not-for-profit publishers in the
humanities and social sciences to disseminate their content globally. 
Since 1999, more than 210 journals from over 50 publishers have been
selected for inclusion in the Project MUSE® collection, bringing the total
number of full-text titles offered to over 270. An estimated 10.8 million
scholars worldwide have access.

NEW TITLES FROM ONGOING MUSE PUBLISHERS

MUSE is delighted to announce that the following titles have been selected
from those submitted by existing publishers. The new title list includes
titles selected since the original announcement this past August.

Indiana University Press (http://www.iupjournals.org/), a member of MUSE
since 1999 and publisher of 23 journals in the collection, will add four
titles: Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism, Film History: An
International Journal, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.

Oxford University Press (www.oupjournals.org ), a member of MUSE since
1999 and publisher of 8 journals in the collection, will add two titles:
Journal of the Royal Musical Association and Past & Present.

University of Toronto Press (http://www.utpjournals.com/), a member of
MUSE since 2003 and publisher of 9 journals in MUSE, will add three
titles: University of Toronto Quarterly, Victorian Periodicals Review and
Modern Drama: world drama from 1850 to the present.

Johns Hopkins University Press (http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals),
founder of MUSE in 1994 and publisher of 56 journals in the collection,
will add two titles: Children’s Literature Association Quarterly and
Sirena: poesia, arte y critica.

Brookings Institution Press,
(http://www.brookings.edu/press/journals.htm), a member of MUSE since 2000
and publisher of 6 journals in MUSE, will add Future of Children.

University of Texas Press,
(http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/journals/journals.html), a member of MUSE
since 2000 and publisher of 8 journals in MUSE, will add Asian Music.

Michigan State University Press (http://msupress.msu.edu/journals.php), a
member of MUSE since 2000 and publisher of 7 journals in MUSE, will add
Red Cedar Review.

University of Nebraska Press,
(http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/search/JournalSearch), a member of MUSE
since 1999 and publisher of 11 journals in MUSE, will add Women and Music:
A Journal of Gender and Culture.

West Virginia University Press (http://www.as.wvu.edu/press/journ.html),
a member of MUSE since 2000 and publisher of 3 journals in MUSE, will add
Tolkien Studies.  

NEW PUBLISHERS AND NEW TITLES

MUSE welcomes the following titles selected from the new publishers 
joining in 2005.

The African Studies Association (http://www.africanstudies.org/) will add
two titles: African Studies Review and History in Africa.

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
(http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/) will add Hesperia.

The Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern
Studies (http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/ANZAMEMS/) will add Parergon.

The Bibliographic Society of The University of Virginia
(http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/) will add Studies in Bibliography.

The Hastings Center(http://www.thehastingscenter.org/) will add Hastings
Center Report.

Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan (http://monumenta.cc.sophia.ac.jp/)  will
add Monumenta Nipponica.

The University of Pennsylvania Press (http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/)  
will add three titles: Hispanic Review, Jewish Quarterly Review, and
Journal of the Early Republic. 

TITLE STATUS CHANGES

Three previously announced new titles will not be joining MUSE in 2005.  
IRB has been withdrawn by its publisher, The Hastings Center. Black
Scholar will no longer be published by the University of Nebraska Press.
Pacific Affairs is indefinitely delayed due to pending contract issues.
Please follow up directly with these publishers for more information.

MUSE regrets that two titles in addition to the ones announced this past
summer will not be continuing in MUSE in 2005. Joyce Studies Annual has
ceased publication. Geographical Analysis has moved to a for-profit
publisher for 2005. All issues previously published in MUSE will remain in
the collection.   
About Project MUSE®

Project MUSE's mission is to provide electronic access to primary current
periodical content from not-for-profit publishers in the humanities and
social sciences to research libraries, master’s colleges and universities,
four-year colleges, and a mix of community colleges, public libraries,
high schools and other special libraries nationally and internationally.
Managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the
Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University and the
participating publishers, Muse currently provides online access to over
270 titles from some 50 publishers to its over 1,100 subscribing libraries
worldwide. The Project has been hailed for its library-friendly licensing
and usage policies, easy online navigation, and reasonable pricing plans.
For more information on MUSE, log onto http://muse.jhu.edu.

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For more information please contact:
Aileen McHugh
Director, Project MUSE
Tel: 410-516-6980
Email: amm@press.jhu.edu