JSTOR, a service of the not-for-profit organisation ITHAKA, has announced the appointment of Mary Rose Muccie as Current Journals Director, effective October 26, 2009. In her new position, Rose will lead efforts to cultivate and deepen relationships with university presses and scholarly associations, building their participation in the new Current Scholarship Program announced last month by JSTOR and University of California Press. She will also manage the Program’s operations and lead its business strategy going forward.
A highly regarded leader in digital publishing, Rose has led Project MUSE, an online aggregation of humanities and social science journals that is part of Johns Hopkins University Press for the last three years. During that time she initiated a substantial upgrade of features and functionality of the MUSE website and reworked MUSE policies to provide a better return for publishers and enable growth for the organisation. Prior to joining MUSE, she served for 13 years at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). At both MUSE and SIAM, Muccie collaborated with JSTOR, first to digitise and make available SIAM’s archival journal content and later to establish connections between the JSTOR and MUSE platforms to ease faculty and student use of the content across the sites.
The Current Scholarship Program will build on what JSTOR is today and aims to provide a new and sustainable approach to online publishing. It will make current and historical scholarly content available on a single, integrated platform; provide a single point of purchase and access for librarians and end users around the world; and ensure long-term preservation. The first current content will be available to libraries beginning in 2011.
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