From: Melanie Schaffner <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:41:28 -0400

Project MUSE Announces Eight New Publishers to Join UPCC in 2014

Baltimore, MD - June 18, 2013 - Eight distinguished scholarly presses,
including the recently-revived University of Missouri Press and the
Chinese University Press, are confirmed to join the University Press
Content Consortium (UPCC) and make their books available digitally on the
Project MUSE platform in 2014. Cornell University Press, Northern Illinois
University Press, Ohio State University Press, School for Advanced
Research (SAR) Press, Texas Tech University Press, and University of South
Carolina Press constitute the remainder of the new participants in UPCC
Books on MUSE.

The new participating publishers bring a variety of program strengths in
MUSE's core humanities and social science disciplines, including political
science and policy studies, cultural studies, anthropology, literary
theory and criticism, religion, Asian studies, United States regional
studies, and Indigenous studies. Their books will join the more than
23,000 scholarly titles expected to be available on the MUSE platform by
the end of 2013, and will bring the total number of UPCC presses to 91. A
complete list of UPCC publishers is available at
http://muse.jhu.edu/about/UPCC.html.

All of the new presses are expected to make their books available in both
the UPCC Collections on MUSE and the recently launched Single Title Sales
program, a partnership initiative with YPB Library Services facilitated
through YBP's GOBI3 acquisition interface. Details on 2014 collections and
titles will be released in October.

Books on MUSE are now available for unlimited DRM-free usage, downloading
and printing by scholars and students at over 150 institutions in nearly
20 countries. Acquisition of MUSE book collections has generated well over
half a million in unit book sales for the participating not-for-profit
publishers since the launch of UPCC on MUSE in January 2012.


About the new UPCC participating presses:

- Founded in 1977 as the publishing house of The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, Chinese University Press specializes in Chinese studies in
literature, history, philosophy, languages, and the arts. The Press'
journal The China Review is also now available in Project MUSE.

- Established in 1869, Cornell University Press publishes 120 new titles a
year across many disciplines, including anthropology, art history, Asian
studies, classics, cultural studies, history, literary criticism and
theory, medieval studies, New York City and State, philosophy, politics
and international relations, security studies, Slavic and Eurasian
studies, sociology, and urban studies.

- Northern Illinois University Press publishes major works in its series
on Slavic and East European studies and its Orthodox Christian Studies
series; the Press also has informal series in religion and philosophy,
drugs and alcohol, and Southeast Asian studies. Additionally, it promotes
understanding of the Midwest through books on regional history and
culture, and publishes literary novels with Midwestern settings and themes
under its Switchgrass Book imprint.

- The Ohio State University Press specializes in literary studies, including
narrative theory, Victorian studies, medieval studies, and classics. It
also offers books in linguistics, foreign language pedagogical material,
and publishes the annual winners of its short fiction and poetry prizes.
Its books will join its three journals currently available in MUSE:
Journal of Higher Education, American Periodicals and Narrative.

- The publication arm of a non-profit organization established in 1907 as
a center for the study of the archaeology and ethnology of the American
Southwest, School for Advanced Research (SAR) Press produces books in
anthropology and archaeology, the arts and aesthetics of Indigenous
peoples, and the peoples and cultures of the American Southwest, past and
present.

- Texas Tech University Press publishes approximately 30 titles per year
across the areas of American liberty and justice; costume and textile
studies; history and culture of Texas and the West, the Great Plains, and
modern Southeast Asia during and after the Vietnam War; Jewish studies and
literature; Latin American and Latino fiction; natural history and natural
science; sport in the American West; and the annual winner of the Walt
McDonald First-Book Competition in Poetry, and literary fiction of Texas
and the West. The Press also has four journals in literary studies
available in MUSE.

- The University of Missouri Press endeavors to share original scholarly
research, outstanding writing, as well as uniquely focused studies by,
for, and about Missourians. The specific areas in which the Press
publishes include American and world history; military history;
intellectual history; biography; African American studies; women's
studies; American, British, and Latin American literary criticism;
journalism; political science; regional studies; and creative nonfiction.

- One of the oldest publishing houses in the South and the largest
publisher in its state, the University of South Carolina Press publishes
many internationally recognized scholarly book series, including
Understanding Contemporary American Literature, Understanding Modern
European and Latin American Literature, Studies in Personalities of the
Old Testament, Studies in Personalities of the New Testament, Studies in
Comparative Religion, Studies in Rhetoric/Communication, Chief Justices of
the United States Supreme Court, and Studies in Maritime History. The
Press also produces titles in African American studies, social work,
military history, and a number of Southern regional book series.

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The University Press Content Consortium (UPCC) grew from the partnership
of Project MUSE and the University Press e-book Consortium (UPeC), formed
in 2009 to explore the feasibility of a university press–based e-book
initiative. With planning and development supported by grants from The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, UPeC surveyed the needs of the library
community and developed and tested a business model. In Spring 2011,
Project MUSE was selected to implement UPeC's plan for a transformative
and sustainable product offering digital versions of book-length
scholarship from many distinguished scholarly presses. UPCC Book
Collections on Project MUSE launched in January 2012.

Project MUSE is a trusted provider of authoritative humanities and social
science books and journals from more than 200 of the world's most
distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. Since 1995, its
electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research
needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. UPCC
Book Collections on Project MUSE, launched in 2012, offer over 20,000
peer-reviewed digital books, in an integrated environment with content
from more than 550 scholarly journals currently on MUSE.

For more information, contact [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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http://muse.jhu.edu