Tweets from the Project Muse Publishers Meeting in Baltimore
The Project Muse Publishers Meeting 2011 took place in Charm City (aka Baltimore) on Thursday and a few attendees were tweeting about the presentations.
You can review the tweets here or by using Bing or Google. The hashtag was #musepub2011
Note: At least for this search Bing Social Search returns more tweets than Google Realtime.
Here are just a few tweets from the meeting in no particual order.
- Showing considerable traffic from referrers other than Google this year: JHU Press web site and StumbleUpon.
- Google top referrer to Muse since 2006, interesting that Facebook is 4th top referrer to their site
- The Journal of Jewish Identities, published out of Youngstown State Univ, is 1 of 100 complete run journals on Project Muse
- First year that more than 50% of PM subscribers are outside of the U.S.; also growth in sales to special libraries
- 27%of institutions w/access to Muse are in Asia
Thanks to @susanmpls, @inojlynn88, and @casonlynley for taking the time to tweet.
Filed under: Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Publishing, Special Libraries
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