"Thirteen More Publishers Will Participate in UPCC eBook Collections on Project MUSE"; To Date 64 Presses Contracted

From a Project Muse/UPCC Announcement:

Project MUSE is excited to announce that 13 more distinguished scholarly publishers have signed contracts to participate in the UPCC eBook Collections, coming to the MUSE platform on January 1, 2012. To date, a total of 64 university and scholarly presses have contracted to include their ebooks in the MUSE/UPCC ebook initiative. UPCC (University Press Content Consortium) collections will offer top quality book-length scholarship, fully integrated with MUSE’s full-text scholarly journals, with library-friendly access and usage terms and affordable tiered pricing.The thirteen new publishers joining the ebook initiative are:

• The Feminist Press
• The Franciscan Institute
• NUS Press Ltd
• Russell Sage Foundation
• Texas Christian University Press
• University of Georgia Press
• University of Iowa Press
• University of Massachusetts Press
• University of North Texas Press
• University of Notre Dame Press
• University of Ottawa Press
• University of Virginia Press
• University Press of Kentucky

MUSE will unveil a beta version of its new search interface combining both journal and book content in late summer 2011. The beta interface will include new post-search filtering options and feature free sample book content for libraries and users to explore.

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