6 October 2020
Project MUSE is pleased to announce expanded and enhanced journal hosting services for 2021. Originally introduced in 2015, MUSE’s hosting service has provided an option for publishers to place journals on the MUSE platform outside of its renowned Journal Collections Program.
Project MUSE will introduce new, streamlined hosting fees for 2021 in order to make the services more accessible to a wider variety of non-profit publishers. In addition, MUSE will include more sales and marketing services for its hosting clients. “We want to help our publishers find the right readers for their content. We realize that in addition to the promotion of our hosted content, we need to add a more robust sales and marketing component,” said Elizabeth Brown, Publisher Relations Manager at Project MUSE. “We will leverage MUSE’s talented and experienced sales and customer support teams—they are our not-so-secret sauce for connecting with the library community.”
Integrated with Project MUSE books and journals in its collections, the hosted journal content benefits from being part of a larger corpus of related scholarly material, providing a seamless user experience and enhanced discovery opportunities. MUSE’s strong partnerships with others in the digital scholarship ecosystem and adherence to industry standards ensure that content on the platform can be easily found, cited, linked, and read.
“We are pleased to continue MUSE’s tradition—our mission, really—of helping non-profit journal publishers, including independent journals, navigate the scholarly publishing landscape,” said Wendy Queen, Director of Project MUSE. “Expanding journals hosting at MUSE will also provide even more flexibility for libraries. They can take advantage of additional improvements we are making for purchasing custom mixes of journal collections and individual titles.”