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October 23, 2006
MARY ROSE MUCCIE NAMED DIRECTOR, PROJECT MUSE®

The Johns Hopkins University Press is pleased to announce the appointment of Mary Rose Muccie as the new Director, Project MUSE®. Mary Rose will take the helm of the Press' pioneering online scholarly journal publishing venture beginning December 4, 2006.

"Project MUSE is proud to provide a fair and sustainable model for electronic journal publishing that meets the needs of both libraries and not-for-profit scholarly publishers," said Kathleen Keane, director of The Johns Hopkins University Press. "We are delighted to have an experienced leader like Mary Rose in place to steer MUSE's future developments and cultivate its full potential as a powerful tool for scholarly research and communication."

Most recently, Mary Rose held the position of Publisher with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), where she was responsible for all aspects of the society's book, journal, and electronic publishing activities. Among her accomplishments during her thirteen-year tenure with SIAM, Mary Rose counts the development of Locus, the society's complete journal archive digitization project, the successful negotiation of licenses for SIAM's online journal offerings with several major library consortia, and the launch of notable new journal titles including the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, an electronic-only title with an accompanying open-access web portal. Mary Rose also chaired SIAM's Library Advisory Committee and oversaw the society's reference and textbook publishing efforts, including e-book activities.

Prior to joining SIAM, Mary Rose held editorial and production positions with the J.B. Lippincott Company and the Philadelphia Bar Association. She is an active member of the North American Serials Interest Group, Special Libraries Association, and Society for Scholarly Publishing. Mary Rose earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Pennsylvania.

"I'm thrilled to be joining Project MUSE," said Mary Rose, "I look forward to engaging in an ongoing dialogue with MUSE participating publishers and the scholarly community, and to working with the MUSE staff to continue to provide an equitable and reliable model for online journal publishing in the humanities and social sciences."

July 26, 2005
MUSE INTRODUCES UPDATED INSTITUTIONAL LICENSE FOR 2006

Project MUSE is introducing an updated and streamlined Institutional Licensing Agreement, which will be effective January 1st, 2006. We have posted the draft version of the new license for our subscribers' review: Institutional Subscriber Licensing Agreement Updated for 2006.

June 27, 2005
MUSE ANNOUNCES NEW COLLECTION, PUBLISHER, TITLES AND PRICES AT ALA ANNUAL

Project MUSE made several announcements regarding plans for a new collection in 2006, new publishers and titles, and 2006 prices at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, June 24, 2005. See our press releases about the new offerings for more details.

June 15, 2005
MUSE FUNCTIONALITY SURVEY ANNOUNCED

Project MUSE invites your library's participation in a web-based survey on enhancing our functionality, interface, and navigation for our users worldwide. The survey will take 15 to 30 minutes, depending on how many comments you choose to make. You may work on the survey in several sessions. It will save your place if you wish to exit and return, provided no one else accesses the survey from the same browser. Those who complete the survey and include an email address will be entered into a drawing for five gift certificates of $50 each to Amazon.com.

April 13, 2005
ATHENS AUTHENTICATION NOW AVAILABLE

Project MUSE is pleased to announce that it is now compliant with Athens authentication. Athens, developed by Eduserv, is the British standard to access Web-based subscription services for higher education, further education, and research councils. The system enables these institutions to efficiently manage access rights to multiple online resources.

Current subscribers in the U.K. who wish to enable Athens access to MUSE for their users should contact MUSE subscriber support. Please include the name of the subscribing institution, as well as the name and title of the individual making the request.

February 23, 2005
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: USABILITY AND OUTREACH LIBRARIAN

December 14, 2004
UPDATES TO 2005 TITLE LIST ANNOUNCED

Project MUSE has released an update on its 2005 content, including several new titles not previously announced. The Updates on Journal Titles for 2005 includes all of the 26 new titles and 7 new publishers joining MUSE for 2005, as well as a summary of title status changes.

August 3, 2004
PROJECT MUSE 2005 PRICES AND CONTENT ANNOUNCED

Project MUSE is now releasing final details on prices and subscription options and collections and content for the 2005 calendar year subscription term. This announcement follows an extensive pricing study and the introduction of a new pricing model for U.S. academic institutions at the recent American Library Association conference.

For more information about the new pricing model, consult Q&A on Project MUSE's New Pricing Model. June 15, 2004
MUSE OFFERS OPENURL OPTION FOR JSTOR LINKS

MUSE now offers the option of setting up OpenURL-enabled links for the JSTOR articles retrieved in the MUSE advanced search interface. Use the online form to enable OpenURL links to JSTOR articles.

As part of a reciprocal linking agreement with JSTOR, an electronic journals archive, Project MUSE has released links to articles from the back issues of 25 MUSE journal titles. Users can now select an option on the MUSE Advanced Search page to include JSTOR articles in their MUSE searches, and can search on the citation information (title, author, abstract) of these articles. Users can gain access to the full text of these articles if their library participates in JSTOR.

JSTOR also provides access to the more recent Project MUSE issues of these 25 titles from the JSTOR interface. This reciprocal linking project gives users the convenience of being able to search and browse the full run of the journals, from Volume 1 to the current issue, from either MUSE or JSTOR.

MUSE and JSTOR have currently over 40 titles in common, and this number is expected to grow to over 50 in the near future. Publishers of the 25 journals in the linking project have agreed to fill any "gaps" in coverage between JSTOR and MUSE. For a list of journal titles included in the project so far, see Links to Back Issues in JSTOR.