You can find Project Muse coverage data via CUFTS at
http://cufts.lib.sfu.ca/tools.shtml
The "Resource Comparison" tool is the way to find the info. You could
also use it to compare PM to other resources for overlap.
Regards,
Don Taylor

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Donald Taylor
Electronic Resources Librarian      email: dstaylor@sfu.ca
Simon Fraser University Library     ph: 604-291-4930
8888 University Drive                    fax: 604-291-3023
Burnaby, BC, Canada  V5A 1S6

At 02:30 PM 29/03/2006, you wrote:
>Speaking of overlap, I am also looking at the Project Muse products
>and have yet to find any
>information that indicates what years are covered for each journal
>title.  Has anyone else
>found this information on the website or somewhere else easily accessible?
>
>Barbara Pope
>
>Hutchens, Chad wrote:
>
>>"more than 80% of Muse titles are redundant with the other databases we
>>have"
>>
>>Are you speaking of just title overlap?  Or are you counting in coverage
>>overlap as well?  That is, the titles might occur in other databases,
>>but is the coverage equal for the same title in another database?
>>
>>My other question would be which PM packages do you currently have...or,
>>which package(s) did you cancel rather?
>>
>>
>>Chad E. Hutchens
>>Electronic Resources Librarian
>>Montana State University Libraries
>>P.O. Box 173320
>>Bozeman, MT  59717-3320
>>(406) 994-4313 phone
>>(406) 994-2851 fax chutchens@montana.edu
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
>>[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Tian Zhang
>>Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 12:35 PM
>>To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
>>Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Something about Project Muse
>>
>>Until 2005, our university library subscribed Project Muse. This year,
>>as the subscription fee goes up, I was asked to have the overlap
>>analyses with all our other databases about the Muse titles. The result
>>is: more than 80% of Muse titles are redundant with the other databases
>>we have. Only about less than 40 titles in Muse are unique. (18 Duke
>>titles which are also unique have been already withdrawn from Muse). At
>>last, our library decided not to subscribe Project Muse starting 2006.
>>
>>
>>But after we stop the subscription, we got phone calls from professors
>>who are used to Muse for retrieve some articles. Even though I some
>>times can find the articles for them by using ProQuest, or Ebsco, or
>>some other databases, this makes me rethink whether it is a correct
>>decision to quit Project Muse. And another problem is that when users
>>tried to get articles from a title in Jstor, they were referred to Muse.
>>So, I have to raise the question for our library whether we should pick
>>it up again or not.
>>
>>
>>I just want to hear from the other Serials Librarians: what do you think
>>about Project Muse? And what is your library's policy for deselect
>>databases with the impact of budget?
>>
>>Thank you in advice for sharing the information with me.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Tian X. Zhang
>>Serials Librarian
>>St. John's University Library
>>8000 Utopia Parkway
>>Queens, NY 11439
>>
>>