From: Melanie Schaffner <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 10:49:27 -0400

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS RECEIVES GRANT TO DEVELOP MUSE OPEN

Johns Hopkins University Press is delighted to announce the award of a
grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of
MUSE Open, a distribution channel for open access monographs through
Project MUSE, a leading provider of digital humanities and social science
content for the scholarly community.

"The Mellon Foundation was an early and important supporter of Project
MUSE," said Kathleen Keane, Director of Johns Hopkins University Press.
“Mellon's support of MUSE Open will be instrumental in sustaining and
extending our mission to ensure the long-term viability of monographic
scholarship."

MUSE Open will leverage a powerful and trusted distribution channel for
long-form humanities scholarship in an enriched digital format. Monographs
included in the program will be distributed globally and made visible and
usable through discoverability and accessibility tools normally reserved
for paid content. MUSE Open content will be promoted to researchers,
students, and general readers worldwide through existing library channels
and through social media, including MUSE Commons. Participating publishers
will enjoy the freedom to control the sales, distribution, and marketing
of the corresponding printed works.

"In an era of declining library budgets and shifts in reading and
consumption habits, scholarly publishers find it increasingly difficult to
sustain high-quality digital and print monograph publishing programs in
the humanities and qualitative social sciences," said Keane. "MUSE Open
will take advantage of new funding models that take the purchasing burden
away from end users for the purposes of providing important new scholarly
content available free of charge to readers around the world."

Since its founding in 1878, Johns Hopkins University Press has
demonstrated a commitment to both tradition and innovation. Today it
stands as one of the world's largest university presses, publishing 83
scholarly journals along with award-winning books in history, science,
education, criticism, political science, and consumer health.

A ground-breaking collaboration of the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries
and the JHU Press founded in 1995, today Project MUSE provides digital
access to more than 600 scholarly journals and more than 36,000 monographs
from 238 non-profit publishers to institutions worldwide.


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