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Response Requested on Open Access;
Also: Submission Guidelines, MUSE Commons
August 5 2014
Dear MUSE-UPCC Publishers,
We are in the process of sending inventories of your files and metadata to each metadata contact, and we thought this would be a good time to gather some data from you based on those inventories. If any of your books in MUSE-UPCC have subsequently been released as Open Access, we need to know about this. Please mark any such books in your inventories and return to me by August 20, 2014.
We also thought that this was a good time to send a refresher on the parameters for what kinds of books to submit to UPCC. Please read below.
Finally, we thank those of you who have registered on the Project MUSE Commons. We have started another drive to sign the rest of our publishers up, and we will be moving forward with posting more updates and resources to the Commons in coming weeks. More information below.
As always, we welcome your questions.
All best wishes,
Elizabeth W. Brown
ebrown@jhu.edu
410-516-6834
We'll be following up soon with more information on our planning for DDA/EBA. See our email from June 2014 or the recent post on the MUSE Commons (login required). Also, please note that the NISO Recommended Practice for Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) of Monographs is now available for download. The EBA "flavor" of DDA is covered in Section 4.2.3 on page 10.
Basic Guidelines for Submitting Books to MUSE-UPCC
We have posted these guidelines with additional details on the Project MUSE UPCC Commons site.
  • Publishers must have worldwide rights and the right to publish electronic editions.
  • Once a book is published in MUSE, it cannot be removed.
  • The book must be complete (no sections can be redacted).
  • We permit redacting of images but discourage submitting books that have most or all images redacted, or any images that are central to the theme of the book.
  • Do not submit books that are already available open access (we cannot sell content that is freely available elsewhere to libraries).
  • We do not replace or update books with newer editions or versions. 
  • We accept new editions if they contain new content and are submitted as separate titles with their own ISBNs from earlier editions in MUSE.
We welcome these books:
  • Scholarly monographs and collections in the humanities and social sciences
  • Other books with scholarly content and appeal to an academic audience
  • Fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, memoirs
  • Regional publishing that is scholarly in nature
Please do not submit:
  • Children’s books
  • Books for popular audiences such as travel guides, cookbooks, hiking guides, hunting guides, gardening books, consumer health, self-help, or coffee table books. 
Come to the Commons!
Thanks to everyone who has registered for the MUSE Commons. We are doing another drive to get the remaining publisher contacts registered; look for your invitations sent from the Commons.
If you don't receive the invitation (check your SPAM folder!), then you can either:
  •  Email us at commons@press.jhu.edu with your desired username (at least 4 characters, no spaces, all lowercase), and we'll get you set up, OR
  • Go to http://musecommons.org/ and register, then we'll hook your account up to the appropriate publisher groups.
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