MUSE Announces 25 Publishers Contracted for UPCC eBooks

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

Twenty-Five Publishers Contracted for UPCC eBooks Collections on 
Project MUSE; Over 45 Committed to Participate in Program

Project MUSE is pleased to announce a preliminary list of 
participating publishers for the UPCC eBook Collections, 
scheduled for launch on the MUSE platform on January 1, 2012. 
Twenty-five presses have signed contracts to include their 
scholarly books in the UPCC Collections, and to date over 45 
presses have committed to participate. Further announcements of 
participating publishers will be made when contracts are 
completed.

Project MUSE currently has signed agreements with the following 
presses:

Baylor University Press
Brookings Institution Press
Duke University Press
ELT Press
Fordham University Press
Gallaudet University Press
Indiana University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Kent State University Press
Michigan State University Press
NYU Press
Rutgers University Press
Syracuse University Press
Temple University Press
University of Arkansas Press
University of Hawaii Press
University of Michigan Press
University of Nebraska Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
University of Washington Press
University of Wisconsin Press
University Press of New England
Utah State University Press
West Virginia University Press

UPCC eBook Collections on Project MUSE will include both 
frontlist and backlist offerings, with the digital book content 
fully integrated for searching and browsing alongside MUSE's 
wealth of scholarly journal content. MUSE is applying its fifteen 
years of experience successfully delivering the best 
peer-reviewed scholarship to libraries to the development of an 
electronic book offering that will enrich the research experience 
and provide easy access and use of book content for scholars and 
students worldwide. Libraries purchasing UPCC eBook Collections 
on MUSE will have perpetual access rights, with unlimited 
simultaneous usage, downloading, and printing of chapter-level 
PDFs.

Project MUSE will launch a beta site, including free sample book 
content and a sophisticated new search interface integrating 
books and journals, in late summer 2011. This site will run in 
parallel with the current MUSE site until the launch of the UPCC 
eBook Collections in January 2012. Details on the content and 
pricing for the UPCC eBook Collections will be available in fall 
2011.

At the recent meeting of the Association of College and Research 
Libraries (ACRL) in Philadelphia, Project MUSE presented a 
well-attended program featuring updates on both its widely-used 
journal collections and the plans for UPCC eBook Collections. A 
copy of the slideshow presentation from the meeting is available 
at http://muse.jhu.edu/about/docs/ACRL_User_Group_2011.pptx. The 
portion of the program on books begins at slide 8.

"Our partnership with UPCC has greatly expanded the scope of 
MUSE's initiative to add books to our platform, with the 
potential to launch in 2012 with many thousands of books from 
more than 60 publishers," said Dean Smith, Project MUSE Director. 
"The response to the UPCC eBooks Collections from librarians at 
the ACRL conference was overwhelmingly enthusiastic, and we look 
forward to providing them a product with high-quality content and 
excellent value."

The announcement of 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.

Melanie Schaffner
Marketing and Sales Manager, Project MUSE
The Johns Hopkins University Press
2715 N Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218 USA