P R E S S R E L E A S E FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 15, 1999 PROJECT MUSE� ANNOUNCES PRICING AND SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS FOR 2000 Baltimore, MD - Firm prices and subscription options for the 2000 calendar year term are now available for Project MUSE�, the electronic journals database managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP). In June, JHUP announced the expansion of MUSE to include full-text online access to titles from other university presses. Nine other publishers are currently participating, bringing the total number of journal titles offered in MUSE to 112 and more than doubling the size of the collection. The publishers involved are Carnegie Mellon University Press, Duke University Press, Indiana University Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, University of Hawaii Press, University of Texas Press, and the University of Wisconsin Press. Institutional customers will have a choice of several subscription options to best meet their collection development needs. Along with the complete collection of titles, convenient discipline-oriented packages and packages of titles by publisher are available, all at less than the total cost of subscribing to the print editions of the journals included. As in the past, libraries will also be able to pick and choose single title subscriptions, with electronic-only journals priced at 90% of the print edition, and special combined print and electronic subscriptions priced at 130% of the print rate. Libraries opting for either the complete database or one of the discipline-oriented packages may take an extra 10% off the list price for orders that are received and paid no later than January 31, 2000. This discount may not be combined with any category or consortial discounts and applies only to orders placed at full list price. The list price for the complete Project MUSE Full Database of 112 titles is $8000, lower than the figure projected when MUSE's expansion was announced. The Arts & Humanities Package, consisting of 86 titles, has a list price of $6,200. A Social Sciences Package containing 50 titles is available for $3,750. Publisher packages are offered for collections of titles from five of the participating presses, including the Johns Hopkins University Press. The JHUP package is essentially the same database currently accessed by Project MUSE full database customers, with a few changes resulting from the addition and deletion of certain journals from our publishing program. The publisher packages are priced as follows: Johns Hopkins University Press (45 titles) $3,450, Duke University Press (24 titles) $2,050, Indiana University Press (13 titles) $825, Pennsylvania State University Press (9 titles) $370, University of Hawaii Press (9 titles) $280. Project MUSE will continue to offer discounts on MUSE subscriptions to certain categories of libraries, and volume discounts for orders from library consortia and networks. Consortium discounts will apply to the four largest database packages; Full Database, Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and the JHUP Package. Consortia members may "mix and match" their subscriptions among these four packages and the volume discount for the group will be determined by the total number of subscribing members. Category discounts for small academic libraries, community/junior colleges, public libraries, high schools and special libraries will apply to all of the packages offered. As in the past, category and consortial discounts will be compounded if a library qualifies for both. No discounts are offered on single title orders. Lists of the specific journal titles included in the various Project MUSE packages offered for subscription in 2000 may be found on the MUSE Web site. A complete list of the titles in MUSE for 2000 (the Full Database Package) may be found at http://muse.jhu.edu/proj_descrip/listbytitle.html. Details on the Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences Packages are at http://muse.jhu.edu/proj_descrip/listbydiscipline.html, and title lists for the publisher packages are at http://muse.jhu.edu/proj_descrip/listbypub.html. Project MUSE was launched in 1995 by the Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University, to offer the full text of JHUP scholarly journals via the world wide web. In 1999, MUSE publishes online 46 JHUP titles in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics, which are available for institutional subscriptions either as a package or individually. Project MUSE has been hailed for its library-friendly licensing and usage policies, easy online navigation, reasonable pricing, and generous discount plans for consortia and various categories of libraries. The Johns Hopkins University Press is one of the country's oldest and largest university presses, publishing more than 170 books each year and 52 scholarly journals. By long tradition the Press has published with distinction in such disciplines as literary studies, classics, history, economics, political science, and the history of science and medicine. Its innovative publishing program embraces both traditional and newer modes of scholarly communication. ### CONTACT: Melanie Vandermark (410) 516-3846 E-Mail: melanie@jhupress.jhu.edu http://muse.jhu.edu
