*WITH APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING*

For immediate release
July 1, 2005

For more information, contact:
Kim Steinle, Library Relations Manager
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*Duke University Press launches e-Duke Scholarly Collection, hosted by 
HighWire Press*

Duke University Press is pleased to announce the official launch of its 
new e-Duke Scholarly Collection, hosted by HighWire Press at Stanford 
University. The new e-Duke Scholarly Collection will replace the interim 
electronic journals package that was offered in the summer of 2004 to 
the libraries that had formerly accessed Duke's humanities and social 
sciences journals via Project Muse.

"We are proud to have partnered with HighWire Press, an influential 
leader in electronic publishing in its development and provision of 
premier electronic hosting technology, and also an invaluable resource 
and friend to the scientific and academic communities," commented Duke 
University Press Director Steve Cohn. "Our partnership with HighWire, 
whose mission statement so closely mirrors our own as a university 
press-that is, a shared commitment to advance the frontiers of knowledge 
and contribute significantly to the international community of 
scholarship-will undoubtedly benefit our subscribers and the larger 
academic and research communities that we serve."

A division of Stanford University Libraries, HighWire earned the 2003 
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers Award for 
"Service to Not-for-Profit Publishing." With this new partnership, 
subscribers to the e-Duke Scholarly Collection will reap the many 
benefits of HighWire's impressive list of features-including toll-free 
access across cited journals within HighWire's collection-and its 
commitment to preservation, as Duke University Press will now become a 
participant in the Stanford-based LOCKSS program (Lots of Copies Keeps 
Stuff Safe).

The e-Duke Scholarly Collection includes online access to twenty-nine 
Duke University Press humanities and social science journals (see list 
below), including a newly acquired title for 2006, /New German 
Critique/. Pricing for the collection is based on the regular 
subscription rate of twenty titles; the nine journals that remain 
available on Project Muse are included in the e-Duke Scholarly 
Collection for no additional cost. Access to all twenty-nine journals in 
the collection includes not only the 2006 issues as they are published, 
but also all available issues from the 2000-2005 volumes.

Derived from the model originally created by Project Muse, the e-Duke 
Scholarly Collection pricing model will combine a tier system, based on 
Carnegie classifications, with usage statistics to create price 
categories. As no reliable usage statistics are currently available, the 
2006 and 2007 e-Duke Scholarly Collection prices for all libraries will 
be based on median usage. Based on this calculation, all institutions 
that subscribe for 2006 and/or 2007 will receive discounts of 33-84% off 
the full value of the collection. Once Duke University Press has 
reliable 2006 usage statistics from HighWire Press, usage quartiles will 
be implemented in combination with the current tiered pricing to 
determine e-Duke Scholarly Collection rates in 2008.

Finally, in combination with the electronic collection, Duke University 
Press is also pleased to introduce a tiered, substantially discounted 
pricing model for print subscriptions as add-ons to the e-Duke Scholarly 
Collection, with e-Duke subscribers receiving discounts of 60-80% off 
the normal print prices.

For more information on the e-Duke Scholarly Collection, including 
further details regarding the new pricing model, please visit 
http://www.dukeupress.edu/edukecollection.

e-Duke Scholarly Collection
American Literature <http://www.dukeupress.edu/americanliterature>
* American Literary Scholarship <http://www.dukeupress.edu/alsection>
American Speech <http://www.dukeupress.edu/americanspeech>
boundary 2 <http://www.dukeupress.edu/boundary2>
Camera Obscura <http://www.dukeupress.edu/cameraobscura>
* Common Knowledge <http://www.dukeupress.edu/commonknowledge>
* Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 
<http://www.dukeupress.edu/cssaame>
differences <http://www.dukeupress.edu/differences>
* Eighteenth-Century Life <http://www.dukeupress.edu/ecl>
Ethnohistory <http://www.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory>
French Historical Studies <http://www.dukeupress.edu/fhs>
* GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies <http://www.dukeupress.edu/glq>
Hispanic American Historical Review <http://www.dukeupress.edu/hahr>
History of Political Economy <http://www.dukeupress.edu/hope>
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 
<http://www.dukeupress.edu/jhppl>
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 
<http://www.dukeupress.edu/jmems>
Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 
<http://www.dukeupress.edu/labor>
* Mediterranean Quarterly <http://www.dukeupress.edu/mq>
MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly <http://www.dukeupress.edu/mlq>
New German Critique (New in 2006)
* Pedagogy <http://www.dukeupress.edu/pedagogy>
Poetics Today <http://www.dukeupress.edu/poeticstoday>
* positions: east asia cultures critique 
<http://www.dukeupress.edu/positions>
Public Culture <http://www.dukeupress.edu/publicculture>
Radical History Review <http://www.dukeupress.edu/rhr>
SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly <http://www.dukeupress.edu/saq>
* Social Science History <http://www.dukeupress.edu/ssh>
Social Text <http://www.dukeupress.edu/socialtext>
Theater <http://www.dukeupress.edu/theater>/

* Indicates titles that are available on Project Muse and thus are 
included free in the e-Duke Scholarly Collection

-- 
Kimberly Steinle
Library Relations Manager
Duke University Press
905 West Main Street, Suite 18-B
Durham, NC 27701
919-687-3655 (ph) 919-688-3524 (fax)
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