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---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [MUSE_News] Project MUSE News: Dean Smith named Director, Project MUSE From: "Melanie Schaffner" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, February 23, 2010 10:56 am To: [log in to unmask] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEAN SMITH NAMED DIRECTOR, PROJECT MUSE BALTIMORE (February 23, 2010) - The Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dean Smith as Director, Project MUSE. Smith will lead the Press' flagship electronic scholarly journals publishing program beginning March 10, 2010. Project MUSE's innovative and collaborative approach to online publishing offers a fair and sustainable model for both libraries and publishers, and Smith will oversee an expansion to include more archival journal content on the MUSE platform and enhanced services to subscribers, content providers, and end users. "We're delighted to welcome a highly regarded publishing professional like Dean to the Press and Project MUSE," said Kathleen Keane, Director of JHUP. "We expect his thorough understanding of the digital publishing environment and of the challenges faced by scholarly publishers to be great assets in guiding MUSE's future strategic initiatives and in maintaining its strong competitive position as a premier provider of online content in the humanities and social sciences." Smith comes to JHUP with extensive publishing leadership experience and expertise in digital publishing initiatives, product management, technical direction, global sales and marketing, and strategic development. As Director of Content for the American Society for Training and Development, Smith created a digital publishing strategy for the society's periodical, book, and research publications. During a decade-plus tenure with the American Chemical Society, Smith oversaw dynamic growth in worldwide electronic access to the society's publications, designing innovative pricing models, emphasizing library customer relations, and implementing effective internal management systems. He previously spearheaded electronic publishing efforts for a variety of medical publication products at Chapman & Hall, and led traditional journal publishing programs at C&H and Springer-Verlag. An accomplished writer and published poet, he holds a BA from the University of Virginia, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. "I have been observing the progress of Project MUSE since its inception as one of the leading initiatives in electronic scholarly publishing, and have been greatly impressed by the expansion of content as well as the platform's enhanced web presence," said Smith. "I am both honored and excited to be joining MUSE and anticipate expanding its leadership position in the online scholarship community." Project MUSE offers electronic access to over 400 peer-reviewed journal titles from more than 100 university press, society, and independent scholarly publishers. Researchers and students in over 60 countries access full-text, current and archival content on the MUSE platform through a model that provides fair and reasonable subscription options to institutions and a sustainable digital publishing option for not-for-profit content providers. MUSE pioneered university press electronic journal publishing in the humanities and the social sciences through a collaborative effort with the Johns Hopkins University's Milton S. Eisenhower Library, launching online access to publications from the JHU Press in 1995, and expanding to include titles from other publishers in 2000. For more on Project MUSE, visit http://muse.jhu.edu. For more information, please contact Melanie Schaffner, [log in to unmask] _______________________________________________ http://muse.jhu.edu MUSE Subscriber Support: [log in to unmask] lis-e-resources is a UKSG list - http://www.uksg.org/serials UKSG groups also available on Facebook and LinkedIn