Project MUSE Announces New Titles, Prices for 2009; Web Redesign to Launch later This Summer
from Project MUSE:
Project MUSE is pleased to announce that over 30 new titles have been confirmed to date for addition to its online journal collections in 2009. Among the new publishers contributing content to MUSE are the Liverpool University Press, The Western Literature Association, and The New Chaucer Society. List pricing for the journal collections for 2009 is also now available.
The new interface that will launch this August offers enhanced functionality at the journal article level, additional tools for locating relevant content in MUSE, and easier navigation of the site's informational pages, along with an attractive new layout.
New Titles for 2009
The journals joining MUSE in 2009 enhance its offerings in Asian studies, Women's studies, African-American studies, Latin American studies, Iberian studies, higher education, literature, and public policy, among others. Highlights of the journals joining the MUSE collections include African-American Review, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Western American Literature, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, and Anthropological Linguistics. (Please see below for a complete list of titles confirmed to date.) Further additions will be announced later this summer.
Many current MUSE participating publishers continue to contribute additional journal titles; for 2009, the University of Toronto Press is adding five titles, and the Indiana University Press, University of Hawaii Press, and University of Nebraska Press are adding two titles each. Other current publishers contributing new journals to MUSE include the Catholic University of America Press, Purdue University Press, Texas Tech University Press, University of Illinois Press, and University of Pennsylvania Press.
All journals joining MUSE for 2009 will be included in the Premium Collection, MUSE's flagship online journal offering. The MUSE Standard Collection, a subset of the Premium Collection, offers libraries a relatively stable collection of interdisciplinary titles, with modest annual growth. The following titles have also been selected for addition to the Standard Collection for 2009: African American Review, French Studies: A Quarterly Review, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Journal of Canadian Studies, Library Trends, and Western American Literature. Further additions to the Standard Collection, as well as additions to the Basic Research, Basic College, Humanities, and Social Science collections, will be announced later this summer.
Pricing for 2009
List prices for the six MUSE online journal collections for 2009 have also been confirmed. Beginning with 2008, MUSE committed for a three-year period to caps on price increases of 12% on the Premium Collection and 7% for all other collections; 2009 pricing reflects these caps. Project MUSE continues to offer a model of tiered discounts on these rates 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. Details regarding 2009 institutional renewals will be distributed to current subscribers and consortium affiliates in August and September; libraries that subscribe via a consortial arrangement should inquire about renewal options with their consortium offices.
As occasionally happens, some journals will cease contributing new content to MUSE as of 2009 due to changes in their print publishers. Journals confirmed to go archive-only in 2009 include Canadian Journal on Aging, Italian Culture, Journal of Chinese Overseas, Journal of the Royal Music Association, Renaissance Quarterly, and The Washington Quarterly. All issues of these titles currently available online will remain in MUSE and accessible to paid subscribers.
Additional announcements regarding new MUSE titles and our new web design will be made in the coming months, and complete 2009 title/price details will be available on the MUSE web site later this summer. Questions regarding MUSE's 2009 journal collections and subscription offerings may be directed to muse@press.jhu.edu.
Journals Confirmed to Date for 2009
The list of journals confirmed to date to join the MUSE collections in 2009 is as follows:
African American Review
An Sionnach: a journal of literature, culture, and the arts
Anthropological Linguistics
Archives of Asian Art
Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture
Black Women, Gender & Families
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
Bulletin of the Comediantes
Byron Journal
Canadian Public Policy
La Coronica: a journal of medieval Spanish language, literature and cultural studies
Genocide Studies and Prevention
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Histoire Sociale/Social History
Historically Speaking
Hume Studies
International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
Intertexts
Journal of Education Finance
Journal of Song-Yuan Studies
Le mouvement social
Race/Ethnicity: multidisciplinary global perspectives
Revista de Hispanica Moderna: devoted to the study of the literature of Latin America, Portugal and Spain
Romani Studies
Studies in American Jewish Literature
Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Tenso, Bulletin of the Societe Guilhem IX
The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville
U. S. Catholic Historian
Western American Literature
Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature