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- Project MUSE News: MUSE launches new web interface

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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:22:01 -0400
From: Melanie Schaffner <melanie@muse.jhu.edu>
Subject: Project MUSE News: MUSE launches new web interface

Project MUSE launches new web interface; enhanced features aid discovery
and navigation

Project MUSE is pleased to announce the release of a new web interface,
enhanced with many features to aid ease of navigation, expand discovery,
and encourage deeper interaction with the wealth of scholarly content
offered by MUSE.

Online now at http://muse.jhu.edu, the new site design offers several new
tools and resources for scholars, librarians, and publishers. MUSE offers
full text access to current content from nearly 400 high quality journals
in the humanities and social sciences, from some 100 not-for-profit
publishers, and the web site?s improved features will help users find,
utilize and share this content more readily and efficiently.

A highlight of MUSE's new web site is wider range of functionality at the
individual journal article level, including the ability to email a link,
find more articles from the same author(s), and share the article via
popular social bookmarking services. Color indicators allow users to
easily determine to which content they have full text access, at both the
journal and article level.

Improved navigation in the site's informational pages makes it easier for
researchers, librarians, and publishers to access tools such as training
guides, usage statistics, journal holdings information, and technical
documentation. A new search feature also offers the ability to search only
the informational pages, to quickly locate key details such as pricing,
upcoming journal additions, or supported technologies. An entirely new
section is dedicated to information for current and prospective publishers
of journals in MUSE.

Additional features are planned to further enhance the new web interface.
During the fall and winter, users will begin to see reference linking and
a ?Related Articles? list at the journal article level, and a new cover
sheet with functionality comparable to the HTML articles will be added to
the PDF versions. MUSE also expects to implement the SUSHI (Standardized
Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) technology.

The Project MUSE web site will continue to evolve to meet the changing
needs of our users, customers, and business partners. We welcome feedback,
comments and questions at muse@press.jhu.edu.

Melanie B. Schaffner
Marketing and Sales Manager, Project MUSE
c/o The Johns Hopkins University Press
2715 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
p 410-516-3846
f 410-516-6968
melanie@muse.jhu.edu