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.

About JHUP/Project MUSE
A division of the JHU Press, Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital
humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.  Since
1995 the MUSE journal collections have supported a wide array of research
needs at academic, public, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE is a
trusted source of complete, full-text versions of 580 scholarly journals
and more than 20,000 books from the University Press Content Consortium
(UPCC). Over 200 of the world's leading university presses and scholarly
societies currently contribute content to MUSE.

About HighWire Press
At the forefront of strategic scholarly publishing, HighWire Press
provides the latest in digital content development and hosting solutions
to the scholarly community through its ground-breaking HighWire Open
Platform. A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire
partners with influential societies, university presses, and other
independent publishers, sharing ideas and innovations in publishing, and
producing definitive online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed
journals, books, reference works, and other scholarly content. Since its
inception in 1995, HighWire has embodied a commitment to helping
publishers disseminate their content to the widest possible audience,
facilitating the research communication process to meet the ever-changing
needs of today's online and mobile readers.  Twitter: @highwirepress
highwire.stanford.edu

For more information, contact:

For Project MUSE
Dean J. Smith
Director, Project MUSE
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410-516-6981

For HighWire:
Bonnie Zavon
Public Relations
HighWire | Stanford University
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650-723-0522