Duke launches e-Duke Scholarly Collection, hosted by HighWirePress

[Donna Blagdan <blagdan@duke.edu>]

*WITH APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING*

For immediate release
July 1, 2005

For more information, contact:
Kim Steinle, Library Relations Manager
libraryrelations@dukeupress.edu
http://www.dukeupress.edu/edukecollection

*Duke University Press launches e-Duke Scholarly Collection, hosted 
by HighWire Press*

Duke University Press is pleased to announce the official launch of its
new e-Duke Scholarly Collection, hosted by HighWire Press at Stanford
University. The new e-Duke Scholarly Collection will replace the interim
electronic journals package that was offered in the summer of 2004 to the
libraries that had formerly accessed Duke's humanities and social sciences
journals via Project Muse.

"We are proud to have partnered with HighWire Press, an influential leader
in electronic publishing in its development and provision of premier
electronic hosting technology, and also an invaluable resource and friend
to the scientific and academic communities,"  commented Duke University
Press Director Steve Cohn. "Our partnership with HighWire, whose mission
statement so closely mirrors our own as a university press-that is, a
shared commitment to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute
significantly to the international community of scholarship-will
undoubtedly benefit our subscribers and the larger academic and research
communities that we serve."

A division of Stanford University Libraries, HighWire earned the 2003
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers Award for
"Service to Not-for-Profit Publishing." With this new partnership,
subscribers to the e-Duke Scholarly Collection will reap the many benefits
of HighWire's impressive list of features-including toll-free access
across cited journals within HighWire's collection-and its commitment to
preservation, as Duke University Press will now become a participant in
the Stanford-based LOCKSS program (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe).

The e-Duke Scholarly Collection includes online access to twenty-nine Duke
University Press humanities and social science journals (see list below),
including a newly acquired title for 2006, /New German Critique/. Pricing
for the collection is based on the regular subscription rate of twenty
titles; the nine journals that remain available on Project Muse are
included in the e-Duke Scholarly Collection for no additional cost. Access
to all twenty-nine journals in the collection includes not only the 2006
issues as they are published, but also all available issues from the
2000-2005 volumes.

Derived from the model originally created by Project Muse, the e-Duke
Scholarly Collection pricing model will combine a tier system, based on
Carnegie classifications, with usage statistics to create price
categories. As no reliable usage statistics are currently available, the
2006 and 2007 e-Duke Scholarly Collection prices for all libraries will be
based on median usage. Based on this calculation, all institutions that
subscribe for 2006 and/or 2007 will receive discounts of 33-84% off the
full value of the collection. Once Duke University Press has reliable 2006
usage statistics from HighWire Press, usage quartiles will be implemented
in combination with the current tiered pricing to determine e-Duke
Scholarly Collection rates in 2008.

Finally, in combination with the electronic collection, Duke University
Press is also pleased to introduce a tiered, substantially discounted
pricing model for print subscriptions as add-ons to the e-Duke Scholarly
Collection, with e-Duke subscribers receiving discounts of 60-80% off the
normal print prices.

For more information on the e-Duke Scholarly Collection, including further
details regarding the new pricing model, please visit
http://www.dukeupress.edu/edukecollection.

e-Duke Scholarly Collection

American Literature <http://www.dukeupress.edu/americanliterature>
* American Literary Scholarship <http://www.dukeupress.edu/alsection>
American Speech <http://www.dukeupress.edu/americanspeech>
boundary 2 <http://www.dukeupress.edu/boundary2>
Camera Obscura <http://www.dukeupress.edu/cameraobscura>
* Common Knowledge <http://www.dukeupress.edu/commonknowledge>
* Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 
<http://www.dukeupress.edu/cssaame>
differences <http://www.dukeupress.edu/differences>
* Eighteenth-Century Life <http://www.dukeupress.edu/ecl>
Ethnohistory <http://www.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory>
French Historical Studies <http://www.dukeupress.edu/fhs>
* GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies <http://www.dukeupress.edu/glq>
Hispanic American Historical Review <http://www.dukeupress.edu/hahr>
History of Political Economy <http://www.dukeupress.edu/hope>
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law <http://www.dukeupress.edu/jhppl>
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies <http://www.dukeupress.edu/jmems>
Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 
<http://www.dukeupress.edu/labor>
* Mediterranean Quarterly <http://www.dukeupress.edu/mq>
MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly <http://www.dukeupress.edu/mlq>
New German Critique (New in 2006)
* Pedagogy <http://www.dukeupress.edu/pedagogy>
Poetics Today <http://www.dukeupress.edu/poeticstoday>
* positions: east asia cultures critique <http://www.dukeupress.edu/positions>
Public Culture <http://www.dukeupress.edu/publicculture>
Radical History Review <http://www.dukeupress.edu/rhr>
SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly <http://www.dukeupress.edu/saq>
* Social Science History <http://www.dukeupress.edu/ssh>
Social Text <http://www.dukeupress.edu/socialtext>
Theater <http://www.dukeupress.edu/theater>/

* Indicates titles that are available on Project Muse and thus are 
included free in the e-Duke Scholarly Collection

Donna Blagdan			Duke University Press
Journals Marketing Manager		Box 90660 Duke University
				Durham, NC 27708-0660
Ph: 919-687-3631
Fax: 919-688-4574			Street Address:
E-mail: dblagdan@dukeupress.edu	905 W. Main St., Ste. 18-B
http://www.dukeupress.edu		Durham, NC 27701

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