Twenty-seven publishers confirmed for first season of e-book

collections on Project MUSE.

Project MUSE has signed contracts with 27 distinguished scholarly

publishers to offer their upcoming monographs in the humanities

and social sciences as part of electronic book collections on the

MUSE platform. Among the publishers participating in the

initiative are Columbia University Press, University of Michigan

Press, Georgetown University Press, Duke University Press,

Indiana University Press, Penn State University Press, University

of Illinois Press, and the Johns Hopkins University Press. MUSE

is partnering for the e-book program with many of the same

publishers who currently contribute content to its successful

electronic scholarly journal collections. A complete list of

participating presses is available at

http://muse.jhu.edu/about/new/ebook_collections.html.

The first collections of frontlist monographs will be offered for

purchase in Fall 2011. Subject-based collections as well as a

comprehensive collection of all available titles will be offered.

Pricing and book title details for the Fall 2011 collections are

expected to be announced by late March.

Sample book content will appear on the MUSE platform in the first

quarter of 2011. Book content will be seamlessly integrated with

MUSE's existing journal content, allowing users to search and

browse across formats and easily discover related scholarship.

Books on MUSE will be offered in PDF format, searchable and

retrievable to the chapter level.

MUSE continues discussions with interested scholarly publishers,

and expects to announce additional participating presses for the

Spring 2012 e-books collections. Further details on Project

MUSE's e-book initiative are available at

http://muse.jhu.edu/about/new/ebook_collections.html. A sneak

preview of plans for e-books on MUSE will be offered during

MUSE's User Group gathering at the upcoming American Library

Association Midwinter Meeting in San Diego. The session is

scheduled for 8:00 am on Saturday, January 8, in the Library Room

of the Westin Gaslamp Quarter. For more information or to RSVP to

attend, please email muse@press.jhu.edu.