March 18, 2014

Dear Project MUSE Journal Publishers,

April 24---the date of the annual MUSE publishers meeting---will soon be upon us, and we look forward to seeing everyone in Baltimore. Our theme this year is "Engage: Sustainable Publishing in an Interdependent World," and we are creating a program designed to engage both journal and book publishers. Please contact Marla Kanefsky with any questions about the upcoming meeting.

I also want to thank everyone who responded to the recent annual royalty score review. I especially appreciate efforts to increase your journals' scores---which can help drive more usage to your journal(s) in MUSE. A win-win!

Let's get to the updates:

Article Published on MUSE Journal Usage

Deadline for New Journal Submissions: April 1

Fixed Royalty Title Review

Call for Journal Issues to Display: Asian Studies

Journal of the Month Club:

ESC: English Studies in Canada

Population, English Edition

All best wishes,

You can generate reports on specific journals, issues, and articles, as well as see usage from specific institutions and countries including those covered in Ann's article. If you work with multiple journals, please send usage reports to your editors on a regular basis. Encourage editors to help get the word out about using MUSE!

April 1 Deadline to Submit New Journals for 2015

Publishers that wish to submit additional journals to be considered for MUSE should submit the journal application form by our usual deadline of April 1. If you have additional journals (i.e., signed contract pending) that you are not ready to submit via the form, please let me know by April 1.

Project MUSE will determine through financial modeling the maximum number of journals we can add for 2015 then begin the selection process later in the spring. 

With the need to keep content growth under control in the current economic climate, however, we already anticipate continuing the trend of adding fewer journals. Thus, we urge publishers to adhere to the April 1 deadline.

Part of our annual journal selection process is the review of all fixed royalty titles for possible promotion to full royalty status. The primary criterion for promotion is usage, but we invite publishers to send any information about awards, accolades, buzz, coverage in indexes, or partnerships---anything that indicates stability, sustainability, or positive reception.

About every four weeks, MUSE features a different, randomly-selected journal in its homepage slideshow. The only requirement to be featured is that publisher logo and branding must be present. 

Highlighting the depth and breadth of the MUSE journal collection is a lot of fun, and hopefully some extra traffic gets pushed these journals' way. Make sure your publisher logo is displaying on your journal pages in MUSE, and if not, please send us your logo. 

ESC: English Studies in Canada

The current spotlight is on ESC: English Studies in Canada, which is the quarterly publication of ACCUTE, Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. Published since 1975, ESC is "Canada’s leading generalist journal in the discipline of English" with a mission “to reflect the discipline back to itself." ESC publishes scholarly articles on literature, language, culture, and theory as considered in both established and emerging areas of the discipline. 

Another journal we've featured so far this year is Population, English Edition, a peer-reviewed quarterly scientific journal also published in a French Edition (Population-F). Population presents original research in the fields of demography and related disciplines: sociology, economics, anthropology, history, geography, epidemiology and public health, methodology in social science. The journal covers both developed and developing countries as well as population trends in different parts of the world.

See you at the Publishers' Meeting in April!