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PRESS RELEASE
April 3, 2013
For Immediate Release
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Project MUSE Partners with HighWire
BALTIMORE, MD & STANFORD, CA - 3 April 2013
The Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) has reached an agreement with Stanford
University's HighWire Press to transition to the HighWire Open Platform as the
new digital hosting and delivery platform for Project MUSE.
Over the past year, JHUP and its digital publishing unit Project MUSE have conducted
an extensive search for a technology partner to assist in expanding the capacity
of Project MUSE to support its current content offering and allow MUSE to pursue
opportunities in developing new products, business models and service offerings
for its growing community of more than 200 publishers and 2700 libraries.
"HighWire brings a wealth of experience in hosting content for publishers and MUSE
will leverage that experience in developing a similar hosting model for the humanities
and social sciences," said Dean Smith, Director of Project MUSE. "Our vision is
to deliver the definitive state-of-the art research environment in servicing our
communities of publishers, libraries, and researchers."
"HighWire is committed to the widespread dissemination of scholarly research and
to the latest advancements in information technology. They have developed a sophisticated
platform and protocol for constant improvement that has served the needs of academic
publishers large and small," said Kathleen Keane, Director of JHUP. "The Johns Hopkins
University Press shares the objective of making scholarly research content available
and usable."
HighWire's history tracks very closely with that of Project MUSE, with similar missions
and both having launched in 1995. Several of HighWire's publishing partners (Duke
University Press, The Oxford University Press, and the University of Wisconsin Press)
also have content on the MUSE platform.
"We are proud to welcome such a prestigious leader in the humanities and social
sciences to the HighWire community," said Tom Rump, Managing Director of HighWire.
"We are excited to provide our innovative hosting platform to Project MUSE to ensure
the highest levels of content integration, discoverability, and end-user engagement.
Given the deep understanding of their customers' needs and their vision for the
future of ebooks and publishing, MUSE will be an inspired digital partner."
"This partnership offers new collaboration opportunities for MUSE and HighWire to
advance the thought leadership, end-user research, and publisher communities that
each organization has pursued individually," affirmed John Sack, Founding Director
of HighWire. "We look forward to finding ways in which together we can foster the
next evolution of research communication."
The successful expansion of the Project MUSE publishing program is highly dependent
on an advanced delivery infrastructure that combines rich functionality, customizability
and a collaborative relationship with an innovative vendor of proven track record
such as HighWire. This dynamic relationship will enable Project MUSE to create new
products, incorporate new content types such as online references, foster personalization
and collaboration, and continue to provide a sustainable model for libraries, publishers
and researchers.
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About JHUP/Project MUSE
A division of the JHU Press, Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities
and social science content for the scholarly community. Since 1995 the MUSE journal
collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, and
school libraries worldwide. MUSE is a trusted source of complete, full-text versions
of 580 scholarly journals and more than 20,000 books from the University Press Content
Consortium (UPCC). Over 200 of the world's leading university presses and scholarly
societies currently contribute content to MUSE.
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About HighWire Press
At the forefront of strategic scholarly publishing, HighWire Press provides the
latest in digital content development and hosting solutions to the scholarly community
through its ground-breaking HighWire Open Platform. A division of the Stanford University
Libraries, HighWire partners with influential societies, university presses, and
other independent publishers, sharing ideas and innovations in publishing, and
producing definitive online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, books,
reference works, and other scholarly content. Since its inception in 1995, HighWire
has embodied a commitment to helping publishers disseminate their content to the
widest possible audience, facilitating the research communication process to meet
the ever-changing needs of today's online and mobile readers.
http://highwire.stanford.edu | Twitter: @highwirepress
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printable version: http://highwire.stanford.edu/PR/ProjectMUSE_HighWire.pdf
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For more information, contact:
Dean Smith
Director, Project MUSE
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410-516-6981
Bonnie Zavon
Public Relations
HighWire | Stanford University
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650-723-0522
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