From: Melanie Schaffner <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:39:57 -0500

Pricing for 2013 UPCC Book Collections Available; New Area Studies
Collections, More Subject Collections, Current Subscription Option Added

Project MUSE is pleased to announce that 2013 pricing is now available for
the UPCC Book Collections, along with several new purchase options and a
new current-content subscription offering. The UPCC collections include
scholarly books primarily in the humanities and social sciences from more
than 80 university presses and related not-for-profit publishers, and will
make available more than 23,000 digital books by the end of 2013.

Among the additional purchase options available to libraries are a new
Subject Collection offering, Ecology and Evolution, for which both
backlist and frontlist collections will be available, and current
collections in Language and Linguistics, a subject area previously only
available in an archive collection. These join best-selling collections in
core subjects such as History, Literature, Political Science and Policy
Studies, Global Cultural Studies, and Religion and Philosophy. MUSE is
also introducing a new set of Area Studies Collections, including African
Studies, American Studies, Asian and Pacific Studies, Jewish Studies,
Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Native American and Indigenous
Studies, and Russian and East European Studies. These cross-disciplinary
collections bring together books that facilitate in-depth examination of
the historical, cultural, political, and social forces shaping the region
of interest.

A further new option for accessing the UPCC scholarship on MUSE is a
Current Subscription offering, which provides faculty and students with
unlimited full-text access to more than 7,500 books published in 2011,
2012, and forthcoming in 2013. With affordable tiered subscription rates,
libraries may choose to subscribe as a method for examining ebook usage at
their institution, and determining which collections and books would be
best suited for permanent acquisition. An Archive Subscription is also
available, providing unlimited access to over 16,000 UPCC books published
in 2010 or earlier for a very reasonable fee.

As previously announced, MUSE/UPCC will also be introducing a
title-by-title book purchase option, in partnership with YBP Library
Services, in the first quarter of 2013. This will allow libraries to
supplement collection purchases as well as build a customized collection
from the ground up, utilizing YBP's acquisition and collection management
services. More information on single title sales is coming soon.

Seventeen additional publishers will be contributing content to the UPCC
Book Collections on MUSE during 2013, including the University of North
Carolina Press, The MIT Press, University of Illinois Press, University
Press of Florida, Louisiana State University Press, Catholic University of
America Press, Presses de l’Université du Québec, and the Central European
University Press. Title lists for newly available UPCC collections should
be ready shortly.

Libraries seeking pricing or other information on the UPCC Book
Collections on MUSE may complete our request form, indicating areas of
specific interest, at http://tools.muse.jhu.edu/order/quote, or contact
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About Project MUSE and UPCC
Project MUSE is a trusted provider of authoritative humanities and social
science content for the scholarly community. The University Press Content
Consortium (UPCC) brings together many thousands of books from more than
80 distinguished university presses and related scholarly publishers,
available on the same platform with MUSE's more than 500 respected
scholarly journals. For more information on Project MUSE visit
http://muse.jhu.edu.

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