Project MUSE: At Least Seven New Publishers Coming to UPCC Book Collections in 2013
Just in from Project MUSE HQ in Baltimore.
Five notable university presses and two respected scholarly publishers will make their scholarly books available in the UPCC (University Press Content Consortium) Book Collections on Project MUSE, beginning in 2013. New and backlist titles from the University of Illinois Press, Louisiana State University Press, the University Press of Florida, the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, and Les Presses de l’Université du Quebec, along with scholarly books from the Liberty Fund and the African Books Collective, will be available on the MUSE platform.
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More newly participating publishers are expected to be announced in coming months, with details on new 2013 UPCC Book Collections available by October.
At the present time UPCC Book Collections on Project MUSE is home to more than 16,000 titles from close to 70 publishers.
Over 100 institutions in 10 countries subscribe to the collection that went live on January 1, 2012.
See Also: UPCC/Project MUSE FAQ
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