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PRESS RELEASE

Publishers contribute new content to Project MUSE®

BALTIMORE (December 14, 2004) - Project MUSE® is pleased to announce
the selection of 26 new scholarly, peer-reviewed journals and 7 new
publishers in 2005.  These 26 journals were selected on the basis of
their value to the collections, and their inclusion in indexes and
archival collections.

A unique collaboration between academic libraries and university
presses and scholarly societies, MUSE enables not-for-profit publishers
in the humanities and social sciences to disseminate their content
globally.  Since 1999, more than 210 journals from over 50 publishers
have been selected for inclusion in the Project MUSE® collection,
bringing the total number of full-text titles offered to over 270. An
estimated 10.8 million scholars worldwide have access.

NEW TITLES FROM ONGOING MUSE PUBLISHERS

MUSE is delighted to announce that the following titles have been
selected from those submitted by existing publishers. The new title
list includes titles selected since the original announcement this past
August.

Indiana University Press (http://www.iupjournals.org/), a member of
MUSE since 1999 and publisher of 23 journals in the collection, will
add four titles: Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism, Film
History: An International Journal, Journal for Early Modern Cultural
Studies, and Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.

Oxford University Press (www.oupjournals.org ), a member of MUSE since
1999 and publisher of 8 journals in the collection, will add two
titles: Journal of the Royal Musical Association and Past & Present.

University of Toronto Press (http://www.utpjournals.com/), a member of
MUSE since 2003 and publisher of 9 journals in MUSE, will add three
titles: University of Toronto Quarterly, Victorian Periodicals Review
and Modern Drama: world drama from 1850 to the present.

Johns Hopkins University Press (http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals),
founder of MUSE in 1994 and publisher of 56 journals in the collection,
will add two titles: Children’s Literature Association Quarterly and
Sirena: poesia, arte y critica.

Brookings Institution Press
(http://www.brookings.edu/press/journals.htm), a member of MUSE since
2000 and publisher of 6 journals in MUSE, will add Future of Children.

University of Texas Press
(http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/journals/journals.html), a member of
MUSE since 2000 and publisher of 8 journals in MUSE, will add Asian
Music.

Michigan State University Press (http://msupress.msu.edu/journals.php),
a member of MUSE since 2000 and publisher of 7 journals in MUSE, will
add Red Cedar Review.

University of Nebraska Press,
(http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/search/JournalSearch), a member of
MUSE since 1999 and publisher of 11 journals in MUSE, will add Women
and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture.

West Virginia University Press (http://www.as.wvu.edu/press/journ.html)
a member of MUSE since 2000 and publisher of 3 journals in MUSE, will
add Tolkien Studies.

NEW PUBLISHERS AND NEW TITLES

MUSE welcomes the following titles selected from the new publishers
joining in 2005.

The African Studies Association (http://www.africanstudies.org/) will
add two titles: African Studies Review and History in Africa.

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
(http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/) will add Hesperia.

The Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early
Modern Studies (http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/ANZAMEMS/) will add
Parergon.

The Bibliographic Society of The University of Virginia
(http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/) will add Studies in
Bibliography.

The Hastings Center(http://www.thehastingscenter.org/) will add
Hastings Center Report.

Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan (http://monumenta.cc.sophia.ac.jp/)
will add Monumenta Nipponica.

The University of Pennsylvania Press (http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/)
will add three titles: Hispanic Review, Jewish Quarterly Review, and
Journal of the Early Republic.

TITLE STATUS CHANGES

Three previously announced new titles will not be joining MUSE in 2005.
IRB has been withdrawn by its publisher, The Hastings Center. Black
Scholar will no longer be published by the University of Nebraska
Press. Pacific Affairs is indefinitely delayed due to pending contract
issues. Please follow up directly with these publishers for more
information.

MUSE regrets that two titles in addition to the ones announced this
past summer will not be continuing in MUSE in 2005. Joyce Studies
Annual has ceased publication. Geographical Analysis has moved to a
for-profit publisher for 2005. All issues previously published in MUSE
will remain in the collection.

About Project MUSE®

Project MUSE’s mission is to provide electronic access to primary
current periodical content from not-for-profit publishers in the
humanities and social sciences to research libraries, master’s colleges
and universities, four-year colleges, and a mix of community colleges,
public libraries, high schools and other special libraries nationally
and internationally. Managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, in
collaboration with the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins
University and the participating publishers, Muse currently provides
online access to over 270 titles from some 50 publishers to its over
1,100 subscribing libraries worldwide. The Project has been hailed for
its library-friendly licensing and usage policies, easy online
navigation, and reasonable pricing plans. For more information on MUSE,
log onto http://muse.jhu.edu.

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For more information please contact:
Aileen McHugh
Director, Project MUSE
Tel: 410-516-6980
Email: amm@press.jhu.edu