New Titles for 2008

The following titles are confirmed to join MUSE’s online collections in 2008. All new titles will be included in the MUSE Premium Collection for 2008.

Below is a list of new titles in Project MUSE® for 2008. This list is also available in Microsoft Excel format.

MUSE Collection Updates

• The Project MUSE Basic Undergraduate Collection is the smallest interdisciplinary subset of the Premium Collection and is designed for four and two year colleges and libraries outside the U.S. Effective with the 2008 subscription year, the collection will have a new name, Basic College Collection, which more aptly describes the audience and market for which it is intended. The focus of this collection is not changing.
• The MUSE Arts and Humanities Collection and Social Sciences Collection have been reconfigured to sharpen the focus of the collections and better align them with the research needs of subscribing institutions. Complete details on the revised Humanities Collection and Social Sciences Collection are available on http://muse.jhu.edu/about/subscriptions/subscriptions_2008.html.

Title Additions to Current Collections

• The Standard Collection, a subset of the Premium Collection, offers institutions a relatively stable collection of interdisciplinary journals. For 2008, the following titles are confirmed for addition to the Standard Collection; a small number of additional titles will be announced during September.

  American Literary Realism
  Canadian Journal of Philosophy
  Classical World
  The Eighteenth Century
  ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance
  Helios
  Journal of Film and Video
  Joyce Studies Annual (to be reactivated in 2008)
  Monatshefte
  Renaissance Quarterly
  The Scottish Historical Review
  WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly

• The Basic Research Collection is a more limited subset of the Premium Collection than the Standard Collection. Titles chosen for this collection are based on a number of selective criteria; current MUSE titles are reevaluated each year using these guidelines and journals meeting the criteria may move into the Basic Research Collection. In 2008, MUSE will enhance the Basic Research Collection with ten current titles.

  Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Global Environmental Politics
  History & Memory
  Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
  Native Plants Journal
  Parergon
  Perspectives on Science
  Philosophy of Music Education Review
  Rhetoric & Public Affairs
  Studies in American Indian Literatures.

• As with the Basic Research Collection, current MUSE titles may be added to the Basic College Collection when the titles meet certain selective criteria. In 2008, three current titles will move into the Basic College Collection.

  Criticism
  Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
  Modern Drama

Titles Transitioning to Archive-Only

• Occasionally, active MUSE journal titles will cease contributing new issues to the MUSE collections as a result of a variety of factors. For 2008, the following titles will enter archive-only status and no longer contribute current content to MUSE. All back issue content will remain online and accessible to subscribers.

  Canadian Journal of Sociology
  Early Music
  Essays in Criticism
  Journal of the American Academy of Religion
  Ka Ho'oilina/The Legacy
  Latin American Politics and Society
  Pacific Science
  Parliamentary History
  Past & Present
  Southwestern Historical Quarterly
  Steinbeck Review

For further information on the titles from Oxford University Press (Early Music, Essays in Criticism, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and Past & Present), please visit the Oxford web site. Pacific Science will be available in future via BioOne. Three titles, Latin American Politics and Society, Parliamentary History, and Steinbeck Review, have been acquired by commercial publishers; Project MUSE works only with not-for-profit publishers. For further details on Southwestern Historical Quarterly, please contact the Texas State Historical Association. For further information about the Canadian Journal of Sociology, please contact kevin.haggerty@ualberta.ca.