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Project Muse eBooks Purchase Offer 2015-2016

Response Deadline: 
February 22, 2016

Subscription Term

Begins: 

January 1, 2016

Ends: 

December 31, 2016

UPCC Project MUSE eBooks

BC ELN partner libraries can purchase any of the Project Muse E-Book collections through BC ELN, for a consortial discount of 10% plus an additional 6.5% applied when the consortial invoice is prepared. This offer is made nation-wide through Consortia Canada.

This offer is unusual in that Project MUSE expects that most ebook purchases will require a facilitated sales/ordering process with MUSE staff as it may be difficult for a library to figure out how best to get the content most applicable. So libraries are asked to consult with MUSE directly before making a purchase decision. However, the actual order must come from the consortium to qualify for consortium discounts. The Project MUSE page on the UPCC collections, including a link to customer support (use the 'contact' link in the footer), is available here.

Please note:

  • There is some content overlap among collections; libraries should ask MUSE about this and be clear on what is included in each collection being ordered because MUSE will not adjust pricing due to overlap.
  • BC ELN libraries that submit before the deadline may benefit from additional discounts; selection of multiple years of content or multiple subjects from one year (or a bulk order from within a consortium) may be eligible for additional discounts.
  • Consortium discounts and special offer discounts cannot be combined.

This license is made available through a national site license negotiated on behalf of Consortia Canada by The Alberta Library (TAL). 


Updates: 

Special Offers:

  1. "ALL BOOKS at MUSE 2016" Special Offer: One-Time Purchase including nearly 45,000 books. Set includes 31,952 titles published before 2013, 9,248 titles from 2013-2015, and 3,049 new titles for 2016. Applies to Tier 4 and Tier 5 institutions only.
  2. "Top-Off for 2016" Special Offer: Over 6,800 titles for the purchasers of the 2015 ALL BOOKS at MUSE collection. Applies to Tier 4 and Tier 5 institutions only.
  3. "Early Purchase Offer on 2016 Collections" Special Offer: 15% discount on 2016 Complete, or 12.5% discount on any 2016 Subject or Area Studies. Available to all institutions.
  4. "Early Bird Bundle Offer for 2014-2016 UPCC Collections": 20% off the purchase of all 9,176 titles from 2014-2016. Order deadline is before February 29, 2016. Available to all institutions.

Overview

Vendor: 
Johns Hopkins University Press
Description: 

Project MUSE has been a trusted provider of humanities and social science content for the scholarly community since 1995. The MUSE platform offers 100% complete, full-text, journal, book, and related content from over 200 not-for-profit publishers including many of the world's most distinguished university presses, scholarly societies, independent publishers, and academic departments. All content is fully integrated on the MUSE platform for searching and discovery, with the following features:

  • DRM-free
  • Unlimited access and unlimited simultaneous usage
  • Unlimited downloading and printing
  • Responsive mobile interface
  • Compliance with accessibility standards
  • Integration and linking with discovery services
  • Archiving and preservation of all digital content with Portico
  • Reliable 24/7 access
  • Authentication via IP, Shibboleth, referring URL, or secure proxy

Book Collections are available for purchase in a variety of options, including collections by subject or by area studies, as complete collections of all titles released on MUSE from a single publication year, archival backlist titles, and supplemental collections of titles added to the MUSE platform after their initial publication year. Purchase of a MUSE Book Collection conveys perpetual access rights and interlibrary loan permission for the included books.

Project MUSE is excited to announce a flexible and cost-effective new way to acquire scholarly books on the platform. Project MUSE Books Custom Collections offer ultimate choice – libraries may design a targeted collection by filtering our 70,000+ available titles on criteria such as subject, publisher, and publication date, or may more closely curate a collection by making individual title selections. Instantly gain resources to support a new program/major, easily add electronic access for existing print holdings, or quickly address course needs with a collection tailored to instructor requests.

Project MUSE offers open access (OA) books and journals from several distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. Through our open access hosting programs, we are able to offer publishers a platform for their OA content which ensures visibility, discoverability, and wide dissemination. These books and journals are freely available to libraries and users around the world.

A list of Project MUSE book collections and book publishers is available on the vendor's website.

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Last updated: January 4, 2021

 

 

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Response

Current Subscribers: 

Response Instructions

To PARTICIPATE, contact BC ELN by Monday, February 22, 2016, indicating which collection(s) you wish to participate in by filling out the book order form. There is no need to calculate discounts, just fill out the list price for your library's tier.

BC ELN/COPPUL libraries respond to BC ELN.

Terms & Conditions

Additional Information

Subscription Information:

Books from three new participating publishers are included in the collections, which include a number of new offerings for the upcoming year. Over 37,500 book titles, from more than 100 not-for profit publishers, will be available on the MUSE platform by the end of 2015.

The Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Lawrence and Wishart, and Princeton University Press are the newest publishers contributing books to the MUSE platform. Princeton has included over 2,000 titles from its distinguished backlist, many previously out of print. All three publishers will make books available for individual sale on MUSE as well as via collections.

New collection offerings for 2015 include a new Subject collection, Psychology, and a new Area Studies option, Middle Eastern Studies. Details on all available UPCC Book Collections are at http://muse.jhu.edu/about/order/book_collection_descriptions.html, and title lists may be downloaded from http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/book_title_list_html.cgi. Some title lists are preliminary and will continue to be updated as more information is available from the publishers.

Also being introduced in 2015 is the first Series Collection on MUSE, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Collected Works, a 50-volume set from Lawrence and Wishart. The release of this collection, exclusive to MUSE, marks the first time the definitive English language edition of the Collected Works has been made available in electronic form. Published between 1975 and 2005 and covering 60 years of Marx and Engels writings, including the complete correspondence and newly discovered works, the 50 volumes contain material published for the first time in English and are the most complete in any language.

Statistics:

COUNTER-compliant usage statistics are available.

MARC Records:

Free MARC records are provided from MUSE.