From: "Schwartz, Judy" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 13:01:37 +0000

While we do not now and probably won’t in the future have / use
Project Muse, it’s always good to be in the know with its latest news.
 If you do a Google search on Highwire Press and free articles, you’ll
find a very useful listing; sometimes it is the only place to find
that needle in the haystack.

Judy Schwartz
Sr Director of Library Services
Trocaire College
http://library.trocaire.edu

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From: Melanie Schaffner <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 10:28:52 -0400

Project MUSE Partners with HighWire

BALTIMORE, MD & STANFORD, CA – 3 April 2013

The Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) has reached an agreement
with Stanford University's HighWire Press to transition to the
HighWire Open Platform as the new digital hosting and delivery
platform for Project MUSE.

Over the past year, JHUP and its digital publishing unit Project MUSE
have conducted an extensive search for a technology partner to assist
in expanding the capacity of Project MUSE to support its current
content offering and allow MUSE to pursue opportunities in developing
new products, business models and service offerings for its growing
community of more than 200 publishers and 2700 libraries.

"HighWire brings a wealth of experience in hosting content for
publishers and MUSE will leverage that experience in developing a
similar hosting model for the humanities and social sciences," said
Dean Smith, Director of Project MUSE. "Our vision is to deliver the
definitive state-of-the-art research environment in servicing our
communities of publishers, libraries, and researchers."

"HighWire is committed to the widespread dissemination of scholarly
research and to the latest advancements in information technology.
They have developed a sophisticated platform and protocol for constant
improvement that has served the needs of academic publishers large and
small," said Kathleen Keane, Director of JHUP. "The Johns Hopkins
University Press shares the objective of making scholarly research
content available and usable."

HighWire's history tracks very closely with that of Project MUSE, with
similar missions and both having launched in 1995. Several of
HighWire's publishing partners (Duke University Press, The Oxford
University Press, and the University of Wisconsin Press) also have
content on the MUSE platform.

"We are proud to welcome such a prestigious leader in the humanities
and social sciences to the HighWire community," said Tom Rump,
Managing Director of HighWire. "We are excited to provide our
innovative hosting platform to Project MUSE to ensure the highest
levels of content integration, discoverability, and end-user
engagement. Given the deep understanding of their customers' needs and
their vision for the future of ebooks and publishing, MUSE will be an
inspired digital partner."

"This partnership offers new collaboration opportunities for MUSE and
HighWire to advance the thought leadership, end-user research, and
publisher communities that each organization has pursued
individually," affirmed John Sack, Founding Director of HighWire. "We
look forward to finding ways in which together we can foster the next
evolution of research communication."

The successful expansion of the Project MUSE publishing program is
highly dependent on an advanced delivery infrastructure that combines
rich functionality, customizability and a collaborative relationship
with an innovative vendor of proven track record such as HighWire.
This dynamic relationship will enable Project MUSE to create new
products, incorporate new content types such as online references,
foster personalization and collaboration, and continue to provide a
sustainable model for libraries, publishers and researchers.

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