Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 16:45:04 -0500

FIRST FULLY OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL LAUNCHES ON PROJECT MUSE
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences now
available OA

Project MUSE is pleased to announce the launch of RSF: The Russell Sage
Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences as a fully open access title on
the MUSE platform. A peer-reviewed journal designed to promote
cross-disciplinary collaborations on timely issues of interest to
academics, policymakers, and the public at large, RSF offers thematic
journal issues focusing on specific research questions or areas of
interest. The initial issues now available on MUSE focus on severe
deprivation in America, and a fiftieth-anniversary retrospective on the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and may be viewed at
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/russell_sage_foundation_journal_of_the_social_sciences/.

While MUSE currently hosts selected open access articles for its
participating journals, RSF is the first fully OA title on the platform.
Its release will be followed by the launch of another fully OA title later
this spring, Palapala: A Journal for Hawaiian Language and Literature / 'o
Palapala: He Puke Pai no ka 'Ōlelo me ka Mo'olelo Hawai'i. Published
by University of Hawaii Press, a MUSE content contributor for over 15
years, Palapala will feature scholarly, refereed articles on the full
range of topics in the field of Hawaiian language, including new research,
reviews of new work, critical review of older, standard works of
reference, transcriptions and reprints of older materials, problems and
guidelines in interpretation, comparative Polynesian literature, and more.

Suzanne Nichols, Director of Publications at the Russell Sage Foundation,
commented, "I am thrilled our new RSF journal will be in MUSE. The
foundation wanted to ensure that anyone anywhere can read it with ease,
and I致e always liked the MUSE model."

"The launch of RSF and soon, Palapala, signal an exciting new phase for
MUSE, as a platform of choice for content providers wishing to make their
scholarly publications widely available in an open access model," said
Wendy Queen, Director, Project MUSE. "Our indexing and discoverability
features, along with our large user base in the humanities and social
sciences, make us an ideal home for both new OA titles and those
considering conversion to this format."

The availability of RSF and Palapala on MUSE is made possible through its
new Hosted Journals program, which allows publishers to include journals
on the platform through a fee-based arrangement outside of the MUSE
Journal Collections. MUSE Hosted Journals are integrated into the complete
listing of MUSE journals and benefit from all of the same features,
functionality, discoverability, and services as titles in collections.
Publishers may choose to offer Hosted Journals via subscription or as open
access.

MUSE's Publisher Relations office welcomes inquiries from peer-reviewed
journals in the humanities and social sciences regarding the Hosted
Journals program, in particular those titles interested in an open access
model. More information may be found on our Journal Publishers web site at
http://muse.jhu.edu/about/publishers/why_place_journals.html.

In addition to offering open access journals, MUSE is currently conducting
research under a Mellon Foundation planning grant towards the development
of MUSE Open, a vehicle for the distribution of open access monographs via
the MUSE platform. MUSE Open hopes to leverage new OA monograph funding
models in combination with MUSE's discoverability and usability features
to provide an enriched reader experience and wide dissemination of
important scholarship. More information MUSE Open is at
http://musecommons.org/blog/2015/06/02/jhup-receives-grant-to-develop-muse-open/.

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. UPCC Books on Project
MUSE, launched in January 2012, offer top quality book-length scholarship
from distinguished university presses and scholarly societies, fully
integrated with MUSE's scholarly journal content. For more information on
Project MUSE, visit muse.jhu.edu.


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The Johns Hopkins University Press
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