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Project MUSE Announces New Titles and Pricing
Project MUSE (http://muse.jhu.edu), an online collection of scholarly journals in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, has announced two new journal collections (Basic Research and Basic Undergraduate) and subscription prices for 2005. The new journal collections join the three existing options: Full Collection, Arts & Humanities, and Social Sciences. The new journal collections are subsets of the Full Collection. And, following an extensive pricing study, MUSE is introducing a new pricing model for U.S. academic institutions. The Project has also increased its coverage to more than 270 scholarly journals.The new pricing model replaces deep consortia discounts that were based on volume purchasing, instead offering peer-institution-based pricing that combines criteria reflecting relative value and actual usage. Libraries continue to have the option of subscribing on a title-by-title basis to any journal for which the publisher has opted to have MUSE sell single titles, at rates set by the publishers. Libraries may also subscribe to single titles in addition to holding a collection subscription. MUSE will continue to offer a consortium flex plan, providing groups of at least five libraries, selecting customized collections of at least 100 titles, a special price based on the custom collection and number of participants. Managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University and the participating publishers, Project MUSE currently provides online access to more than 270 titles from some 50 publishers to nearly 1,200 subscribing libraries worldwide. Source: Project MUSE
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