Project MUSE has announced that nine more university presses have signed contracts to participate in its new initiative to offer e-book collections alongside its electronic journal collections. Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.
The newly confirmed participants include Columbia University Press, Fordham University Press, Georgetown University Press, Syracuse University Press, University of Hawaii Press, University of Michigan Press, University of Texas Press, University of Wisconsin Press and Catholic University of America Press. With this, eighteen not-for-profit scholarly publishers are now contributing high quality front list monographs to MUSE's planned e-books collections.
Preliminary information gathered from the currently confirmed presses indicates that MUSE's initial Fall 2011 offering will contain more than 350 books, across a broad range of scholarly disciplines. In its first season, MUSE expects to offer a complete collection of all books in the programme and selected subject-based collections. Subject collections will be built around areas of critical mass among the specific books included, and are expected to complement MUSE's existing strengths in disciplines such as literature, history and religion.
MUSE e-book collections will be offered for purchase on a seasonal (Fall/Spring) basis, with the first collections available for Fall 2011. Specific details, including lists of included titles, and collection pricing, will be released no later than March 2011. MUSE is already in conversation with both North American and international consortia and libraries regarding e-book collection purchasing. From a user perspective, book content will be fully integrated with journal content on MUSE's trusted platform, offering a rich environment for discovery and research.
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