from Project MUSE:
Pricing for the 2018 Project MUSE Book Collections is now available, including the complete set of nearly 3,000 forthcoming 2018 titles and numerous subject and area studies collections. A highlight of the 2018 offerings is a new subject collection in Public Health, featuring over 50 newly-released books in the field from several of our university press publishers. Presses contributing to the new Public Health subject collection include Johns Hopkins University Press, Cornell University Press. Rutgers University Press, University of Minnesota Press, University Press of New England, and Vanderbilt University Press.
You can access North American pricing for all available collections at http://bit.ly/MUSEBooks2018. (Note that this link will download an Excel file.) Book collection pricing, like our journals pricing, is based upon an institution's tier; pricing for public, special, and school libraries is also included in the document.
Over 4,000 additional books will be available on the MUSE platform by the end of 2018, bringing the total to more than 54,000 scholarly titles. Wits University Press (based at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) and Manchester University Press are newly contributing books to collections on the platform in 2018, including both new and backlist titles. Preliminary title lists for the newly-available collections are available on our web site. MUSE publishers continuously submit information on the new books expected for the 2018 collections and title lists will be updated frequently with additional title data.
MUSE continues to offer very special pricing to libraries wishing to acquire comprehensively all the books available on the MUSE platform. This program also includes a 2018 "top-off" price for all the new books launching on the platform in 2018, for those libraries that have already purchased all previously-available books. Please contact us for details on this "All Books" program. Please note that no further consortium discounting is available on the “All Books” offers, but your consortium members will be entitled to a 10% consortium discount on all other MUSE book collections. We are also happy to discuss modest additional volume discounts for multi-collection purchases. You are also entitled to take your 6.5% commission on all MUSE book orders, including the “All Books” offers.
Project MUSE is actively pursuing participants for our program of Evidence-Based Acquisition (EBA) of book titles on MUSE. We have several pilot programs under way, with capacity for a select additional number of libraries interested in participating. For more information about EBA options on MUSE and joining the pilot, please contact Doug Storm.
In addition to our book collections, MUSE continues to offer single title sales of books on the MUSE platform via our partnership with YBP/GOBI. Libraries wishing to purchase individual titles on MUSE should contact sales@ybp.com to arrange for ordering via the GOBI interface.
Further details on MUSE Books, including participating publishers, collection descriptions and title lists, a sample purchase agreement, and free sample book content, may be found at http://muse.jhu.edu/about/order/book_collections.html.
