P R E S S  R E L E A S E

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 15, 1999

PROJECT MUSE� ANNOUNCES PRICING AND SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS FOR 2000

Baltimore, MD - Firm prices and subscription options for the 2000 calendar
year term are now available for Project MUSE�, the electronic journals
database managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP).  In June,
JHUP announced the expansion of MUSE to include full-text online access to
titles from other university presses. Nine other publishers are currently
participating, bringing the total number of journal titles offered in MUSE
to 112 and more than doubling the size of the collection. The publishers
involved are Carnegie Mellon University Press, Duke University Press,
Indiana University Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Pennsylvania
State University Press, University of Hawaii Press, University of Texas
Press, and the University of Wisconsin Press.

Institutional customers will have a choice of several subscription options
to best meet their collection development needs.  Along with the complete
collection of titles, convenient discipline-oriented packages and packages
of titles by publisher are available, all at less than the total cost of
subscribing to the print editions of the journals included.  As in the
past, libraries will also be able to pick and choose single title
subscriptions, with electronic-only journals priced at 90% of the print
edition, and special combined print and electronic subscriptions priced at
130% of the print rate.

Libraries opting for either the complete database or one of the
discipline-oriented packages may take an extra 10% off the list price for
orders that are received and paid no later than January 31, 2000.  This
discount may not be combined with any category or consortial discounts and
applies only to orders placed at full list price.

The list price for the complete Project MUSE Full Database of 112 titles
is $8000, lower than the figure projected when MUSE's expansion was
announced.  The Arts & Humanities Package, consisting of 86 titles, has a
list price of $6,200.  A Social Sciences Package containing 50 titles is
available for $3,750.

Publisher packages are offered for collections of titles from five of the
participating presses, including the Johns Hopkins University Press.  The
JHUP package is essentially the same database currently accessed by Project
MUSE full database customers, with a few changes resulting from the
addition and deletion of certain journals from our publishing program.  The
publisher packages are priced as follows:  Johns Hopkins University Press
(45 titles) $3,450, Duke University Press (24 titles) $2,050, Indiana
University Press (13 titles) $825, Pennsylvania State University Press (9
titles) $370, University of Hawaii Press (9 titles) $280.

Project MUSE will continue to offer discounts on MUSE subscriptions to
certain categories of libraries, and volume discounts for orders from
library consortia and networks.  Consortium discounts will apply to the
four largest database packages; Full Database, Arts & Humanities, Social
Sciences and the JHUP Package.  Consortia members may "mix and match" their
subscriptions among these four packages and the volume discount for the
group will be determined by the total number of subscribing members.
Category discounts for small academic libraries, community/junior colleges,
public libraries, high schools and special libraries will apply to all of
the packages offered.  As in the past, category and consortial discounts
will be compounded if a library qualifies for both.  No discounts are
offered on single title orders.

Lists of the specific journal titles included in the various Project MUSE
packages offered for subscription in 2000 may be found on the MUSE Web
site.  A complete list of the titles in MUSE for 2000 (the Full Database
Package) may be found at http://muse.jhu.edu/proj_descrip/listbytitle.html.
Details on the Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences Packages are at
http://muse.jhu.edu/proj_descrip/listbydiscipline.html, and title lists for
the publisher packages are at
http://muse.jhu.edu/proj_descrip/listbypub.html.

Project MUSE was launched in 1995 by the Johns Hopkins University Press, in
collaboration with the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins
University, to offer the full text of JHUP scholarly journals via the world
wide web.  In 1999, MUSE publishes online 46 JHUP titles in the humanities,
social sciences and mathematics, which are available for institutional
subscriptions either as a package or individually. Project MUSE has been
hailed for its library-friendly licensing and usage policies, easy online
navigation, reasonable pricing, and generous discount plans for consortia
and various categories of libraries.

The Johns Hopkins University Press is one of the country's oldest and
largest university presses, publishing more than 170 books each year and 52
scholarly journals.  By long tradition the Press has published with
distinction in such disciplines as literary studies, classics, history,
economics, political science, and the history of science and medicine.  Its
innovative publishing program embraces both traditional and newer modes of
scholarly communication.

###

CONTACT:  Melanie Vandermark
(410) 516-3846
E-Mail:  melanie@jhupress.jhu.edu
http://muse.jhu.edu