Project MUSE News: New titles, updates for 2010; back issues expansion

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

PROJECT MUSE ANNOUNCES NEW TITLES, COLLECTION UPDATES, PRICES FOR 
2010

Expansion of back issue program to provide complete run of 
content from many titles

Project MUSE is pleased to announce that 11 new titles have been 
confirmed to date for addition to its online journal collections 
in 2010. Contracts are pending with several new publishers and 
MUSE expects to announce up to five additional titles for next 
year. List pricing for the journal collections for 2010 has also 
been set. MUSE is also excited to expand its pilot program 
incorporating previous volumes of MUSE titles into the collection 
holdings. Back issues from over 60 journal titles will be made 
available at no additional cost to subscribers over a four-year 
period beginning in 2010.

The following journals are confirmed to join MUSE in 2010:

American Book Review
Black Camera: a micro journal of black film studies
Black Music Research Journal
Canadian Theatre Review
Collaborative Anthropologies
Hispania: a journal devoted to the interests of the teaching of Spanish
and Portuguese
Journal of Modern Periodical Studies
Native South
Pennsylvania History: a journal of Mid-Atlantic studies
Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences
Studies in American Fiction

In light of current economic conditions, MUSE is strictly 
moderating the growth of the journal collections for 2010, 
resulting in significantly smaller price increases than in 
previous years. The 2010 price for the Premium Collection, MUSE's 
flagship journal collection, represents an increase of only 6%, 
half that of previous years' increases. All journals joining MUSE 
for 2010 will be included in the Premium Collection.

Prices for the Project MUSE Standard, Basic Research, Basic 
College, and Humanities collections are increasing by only 4%. 
Additional titles will be included in each of these collections 
for 2010, as follows:

Standard Collection:
The Middle East Journal
Sewanee Review
Studies in the Novel

Basic Research Collection:
American Music
Classical World
Comparative Drama

Basic College Collection:
American Music
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Transactions of the American Philological Association

Humanities Collection:
Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum
La coronica: a journal of medieval Spanish language, literature 
and cultural studies
Journal of Modern Greek Studies
Theory & Event
U.S. Catholic Historian

The price for the MUSE Social Sciences Collection will remain 
flat from 2009 as a result of the attrition of some titles and 
the addition of very few titles in this area for 2010. Project 
MUSE continues to offer tiered pricing based upon institutional 
Carnegie classification and relative usage for North America, and 
on World Bank country income classes and institutional 
programming for the rest of the world.

One title, River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, will 
cease to contribute new content to Project MUSE after 2009. The 
title will no longer be published by MUSE participating 
publisher, the University of Nebraska Press.

BACK ISSUES TO BE ADDED

MUSE will be incorporating back issues of many journals, adding 
value to our collections and enhanced depth to users' research 
experience. During the pilot phase of this initiative, MUSE added 
back issues of selected journals published by the Johns Hopkins 
University Press, in several cases resulting in the complete run 
of a title being made available online. Starting in July 2010 and 
continuing over the next three years, MUSE will be adding a 
significant number of back issues from other publishers. Through 
a cost-sharing arrangement with the participating titles, MUSE is 
able to make the back issue content available without an increase 
in cost to subscribers.

During the second half of 2010, MUSE expects to launch back 
issues for these titles:

Biography (full run)
English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
Ethics and the Environment
The Henry James Review (full run)
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (full run)
Journal of Modern Greek Studies (full run)
Journal of Women's History (full run)
Legacy (full run)
L'esprit Createur
Race/Ethnicity (full run)
Rhetoric and Public Affairs (full run)
Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture
Theatre Topics (full run)

Back issues for more than 50 other titles are expected to launch 
in the subsequent three years (2011-2013), with batches of back 
issue content released up to three times per year, grouped by 
subjects. Over half will result in full runs for the journal 
being available in MUSE. Any MUSE journal for which archival 
content is not already available in JSTOR may participate in the 
back issue program at the publisher's choice. Each title's back 
issues will be accessible by any subscriber to a collection that 
includes the title.

Additional announcements regarding new MUSE titles and publishers 
will be made in the coming months, and complete details, 
including pricing information, will be available on the MUSE web 
site by mid-July. Specific information regarding 2010 
institutional renewals will be distributed to current subscribers 
and consortium affiliates in July and August; libraries that 
subscribe via a consortial arrangement should inquire about 
renewal options with their consortium offices. Questions 
regarding MUSE's 2010 journal collections and subscription 
offerings may be directed to muse@press.jhu.edu.

Melanie Schaffner
Marketing and Sales Manager, Project MUSE
The Johns Hopkins University Press
2715 N Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
P 410-516-3846
F 410-516-3846 melanie@muse.jhu.edu