From: Melanie Schaffner <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 16:08:41 -0500
Project MUSE's new interface, featuring book and journal content
integrated on a single platform, is up and running at muse.jhu.edu. Over
12,000 scholarly book titles from nearly 70 distinguished university
presses and related publishers can now be located and browsed along with
the content from MUSE's more than 500 respected journals. Further, new
2012 book titles will soon begin appearing on MUSE, simultaneously with
their release in print.
Highlights of the new interface include:
- Faceted searching, with options to filter search results by content type
(book or journal), subject area, author, and language of publication
- Enhanced browsing by subject area, title, or publisher, across books and
journals or filtered by content type
- Search box on each page of the site, with predictive search terms
- New access icons to help users clearly identify content to which they
have paid access, free sample content, and open access content
Until January 31, search results will default to displaying all relevant
results from both books and journals, to encourage discovery of the depth
and breadth of new content now available on MUSE. Users at institutions
which have purchased or subscribed to book collections on MUSE will have
full-text access to content from those collections. Users may choose to
pre-filter searches to just journals or just books, using the drop-down
menu that accompanies the search box on every page. They may also use the
new search facets to filter their search results by content type, and to
only content for which they have full-text access.
Beginning February 1, search results will default to only content to which
the searcher has full-text access. Users will then have the option to
toggle the search to show all available books and journals relevant to a
search, if desired.
Two video tutorials for searching and browsing within the new interface
are available:
Search Books and Journals on Project MUSE
http://youtu.be/Bhldo-sLktk
Browse Books and Journals on Project MUSE
http://youtu.be/qrR9wM-R2dM
MUSE continues to roll out many additional features and tools on the new
site, with frequent updates planned over the next several days and weeks.
Users are encouraged to provide feedback on any issues encountered when
using the new interface. A "Leave Feedback" button appears in the upper
right corner of all search, browse, and informational pages on the site,
or questions may be sent to MUSE Customer Support at [log in to unmask]
Melanie Schaffner
Director, Sales and Marketing
Project MUSE
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
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