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Project MUSE News: Premium Collection Price and Titles Confirmed

Of potential interest -- please excuse cross-posting.

PROJECT MUSE ANNOUNCES PRICE AND TITLE DETAILS FOR NEW PREMIUM COLLECTION

Project MUSE is pleased to announce details for its new Premium Collection
of online scholarly journals, available for subscription beginning in
2006. The list price for the Premium Collection is $24,500, with over
forty new journals confirmed for inclusion. A complete list of new titles
appears near the end of this announcement.

Libraries that choose the Premium Collection provide their users with
expanded coverage of high-quality full-text, peer-reviewed journals in the
humanities and social sciences in a common interface. New and currently
participating not-for-profit publishers benefit from a sustainable, stable
revenue model for worldwide dissemination of their content.

An overwhelming number of titles applying for inclusion in the MUSE online
journal collections for 2006, combined with a commitment to cap annual
price increases for current collections at six percent through 2007,
resulted in the development of the new Premium Collection. This new option
incorporates all the new titles selected, and provides an option for
libraries that have the need and the funding to acquire a more expansive
collection of refereed titles in the humanities and social sciences.

MUSE’s new Premium Collection and the newly re-named Standard Collection
(formerly the Full Collection) offer libraries the best of both worlds.
Libraries seeking the most comprehensive collection of online arts and
humanities content can choose the Premium option, while subscribers
needing a stable, core collection with predictable pricing will find that
in the Standard.

For domestic academic subscribers, MUSE’s new Premium Collection will use
the Tier and Quartile pricing system introduced in 2005. This system
places each institution on a grid based upon its Carnegie Classification
and full-text usage relative to other subscribers in the same Tier. The
2006 pricing grid for the Premium Collection may be viewed online at
http://muse.jhu.edu/about/subscriptions/
pricing_academic_2006.html#premium. Prospective international or special
library customers should contact MUSE’s sales office for specific pricing
information.

The following titles will be joining MUSE in 2006, and will be included in
Premium Collection subscriptions:


From the University of Arizona:
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literatures, Culture, and Theory

From the University of Calgary Press:

Canadian Journal of Philosophy


From the Classical Association of the Atlantic States:

Classical World


From the Edinburgh University Press:

Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute
Comparative Critical Studies
Dance Research
Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology
Holy Land Studies
Journal of Victorian Culture
Paragraph
Parliamentary History
Romanticism
The Scottish Historical Review
Studies in World Christianity
Translation and Literature


From the George Herbert Journal:

George Herbert Journal


From the Indiana University Press:

Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society


From the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies:
ASEAN Economic Bulletin
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs
Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia

From The Johns Hopkins University Press:

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Community-Based Participatory Research
L'Esprit Createur
Library Trends
Shakespeare Bulletin


From the Michigan State University Press:

Italian Culture


From the University of North Carolina Press:

The Comparatist


From the Oxford University Press:

Cambridge Quarterly
Essays in Criticism
French Studies: A Quarterly Review
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society


From the University of Pennsylvania Press:

Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal


From the Purdue University Press:

Education and Culture


From the Singapore University Press:

Journal of Chinese Overseas


From the University of Texas Press:

Southwestern Historical Quarterly


From the University of Toronto Press:

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice            
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
Eighteenth Century Fiction
Journal of Canadian Studies
Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies


From the Wayne State University Press: Framework: The Journal of Cinema

and Media   A small set of selectively-chosen titles from those joining
MUSE will also be added to the Standard Collection for 2006, including
Africa, Arizona Quarterly, Early American Studies, Eighteenth Century
Fiction, Essays in Criticism, L’Esprit Createur, Southwestern Historical
Quarterly, and Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. Selected
titles will also be added the MUSE’s Basic Research, Basic Undergraduate,
Arts & Humanities, and Social Sciences collections for 2006. Please see
our 2006 subscription information at
http://muse.jhu.edu/about/subscriptions/subscriptions06.html for complete
details on titles included in each MUSE journal collection.

Three titles currently offered in MUSE will be going to “archive-only”
status after 2005, meaning no further issues of these titles will be
contributed to the collection. The Yale Journal of Criticism is ceasing
publication, and Francophonies d’Amerique was acquired by a publisher that
does not currently participate in MUSE. Hesperia is not continuing because
the publisher has chosen to terminate its contract with MUSE.  All issues
of these titles currently online will remain in MUSE and be available to
subscribers.

Prospective and current subscribers are encouraged to contact MUSE’s
Subscription Support desk at muse@muse.jhu.edu with any questions
regarding the Premium Collection, or to request a price quote.

Melanie B. Schaffner
Marketing and Sales Manager, Project MUSE
c/o The Johns Hopkins University Press
p 410-516-3846
f 410-516-6968
melanie@muse.jhu.edu