From: Melanie Schaffner <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 10:22:37 -0400
SEVEN CLASSIC CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS AVAILABLE OPEN ACCESS ON
PROJECT MUSE
Project MUSE, in collaboration with Cornell University Press, is pleased
to announce the digital, fully-open-access availability of seven classic
titles from the Press' distinguished catalog, on the Project MUSE
platform. Funded via a grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities' (NEH) Humanities Open Book Program, the seven out-of-print
titles - none previously available electronically - were carefully
selected with input from subject specialists at the Cornell University
Library for their enduring scholarly impact.
"We are thrilled to make these seven classic titles openly accessible for
the first time to the global scholarly community on Project MUSE," said
Dean Smith, Director of Cornell University Press. "MUSE will enable us to
maximize discovery and dissemination on an established platform that is
embracing new models for hosting open access scholarship."
"These first open books from Cornell University Press reflect a
long-standing legacy of publishing classic scholarship in German Studies
and Slavic Studies," said Brett Bobley, Director of the NEH's Office of
Digital Humanities. "We are pleased that the titles are accessible and
open for the next generation of scholars."
Cornell University Library and Press staff began the process of selecting
twenty books to be digitized with the NEH grant by examining over two
decades of the library's circulation statistics for influential Press
titles which are currently out-of-print. Scholars and subject specialists
in selected fields were then asked to evaluate the list of prospective
titles using both this quantitative data and their own knowledge of
research and teaching needs in their specialty areas, to choose those
books of greatest continuing interest and relevance.
The first seven titles to be produced, and now made available on MUSE,
include:
- Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904–1907, by Robert E. Blobaum (1995) - The
revolution of 1905 in the Russian-ruled Kingdom of Poland marked the
consolidation of major new influences on the political scene. As he
examines the emergence of a mass political culture in Poland, Robert E.
Blobaum offers the first history in any Western language of this
watershed period.
- The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926, by Jonathan Coopersmith
(1992) - The first full account of the widespread adoption of electricity
in Russia, from the beginning in the 1880s to its early years as a state
technology under Soviet rule. Coopersmith's narrative of this crucial
element in the modernization of Russia elucidates the deep-seated and
chronic conflict between the utopianism of Soviet ideology and the reality
of Soviet politics and economics.
- Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks,
1918–1929, by Michael David-Fox (1997) - Using archival materials never
previously accessible to Western scholars, Michael David-Fox analyzes
Bolshevik Party educational and research initiatives in higher learning
after 1917. His fresh consideration of the era of the New Economic Policy
and cultural politics after the Revolution explains how new communist
institutions rose to parallel and rival conventional higher learning from
the Academy of Sciences to the universities.
- The Institution of Criticism, by Peter Uwe Hohendahl (1982) - Drawing
on the tradition of the Frankfurt School and on Jürgen Habermas's concept
of the public sphere, Hohendahl takes a close look at the social history
of literary criticism in Germany since the eighteenth century, and sheds
light on some of the important political and social forces that shape
literature and culture. Including seven essays originally published in
German, the book conveys the rich possibilities of the German perspective
for those who employ American and French critical techniques and for
students of contemporary critical theory.
- Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830–1870, by
Peter Uwe Hohendahl, translated by Renate Baron Franciscono (1989) -
Hohendahl examines important elements in the making of a national
literature, including the political and literary public sphere, the theory
and practice of literary criticism, and the emergence of academic
criticism as literary history.
- Reappraisals: Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory, by Peter
Uwe Hohendahl (1991) - A provocative account of the development of modern
critical theory in Germany and the United States. Hohendahl interprets and
subjects to critical scrutiny many of the central ideas of the Frankfurt
School.
- The Self and Its Pleasures: Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the
Decentered Subject, by Carolyn J. Dean (1992) - In this innovative
cultural history, the author sheds light on the origins of
poststructuralist thought, paying particular attention to the
reinterpretation of the self by Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, and other
French thinkers. Dean examines an array of evidence from medical texts and
literary works alike. The Self and Its Pleasures offers a pathbreaking
understanding of the boundaries between theory and history.
"As an advocate for open access and sustainable publishing, Cornell
University Library is thrilled to see the digital versions of Cornell
University Press titles made openly accessible to all readers," said Anne
R. Kenney, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian for the Cornell University
Libraries. "Previously available in print form only, the titles selected
were not only well received when initially published but remain relevant
to scholars and students today."
"I'm particularly pleased that this initial round of Cornell Open books
includes titles that will be important complements to books in our Signale
series in Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought," added Kizer
Walker, Director of Collections for Cornell University Library, and
Managing Editor of the Signale series. "The program will acquaint new
readers with three seminal works in criticism, theory, and literary
history by Signale's editor, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, originally published
with Cornell Press in the 1980s and '90s." Several recent titles from the
Signale series, a joint imprint of the Cornell Press and Library, are also
available on Project MUSE.
Libraries wishing to add the seven open access titles from Cornell to
their online catalogs may download a set of free MARC records for the
titles from http://muse.jhu.edu/about/cup_open_access_books.html. The
titles will be fully indexed and discoverable in MUSE's search and browse
features, with metadata provided to all of MUSE's discovery partners; they
will share the same user-friendly interface with MUSE's other book content
and offer unlimited simultaneous usage, downloading, and printing.
"Project MUSE is delighted to provide a stable, long-term, and highly
functional platform for the digital open access versions of these
influential works of scholarship," said Wendy Queen, Director of Project
MUSE. "The titles enhance our offerings in core humanities and area
studies disciplines and our global user base will benefit from
unrestricted access to these classic scholarly books."
About Project MUSE
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, special, and school libraries worldwide. Project MUSE Books,
launched in January 2012, offer DRM-free access to top quality book-length
scholarship from distinguished university presses and scholarly societies,
fully integrated with MUSE's scholarly journal content.
About Cornell University Press
Cornell University Press was established in 1869, giving it the
distinction of being the first university press to be established in the
United States, although it was inactive for several decades between 1890
and 1930. From that beginning, the Press has grown to be a major scholarly
publisher, offering over 100 new titles a year in the humanities and
social sciences.
About the Humanities Open Book Program
The Humanities Open Book Program is designed to make outstanding
out-of-print humanities books available to a wide audience. By taking
advantage of low-cost "ebook" technology, the program will allow teachers,
students, scholars, and the public to read humanities books that have long
been out of print. Humanities Open Book is jointly sponsored by NEH and
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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