(December 2011)

New Project MUSE Platform Launch:

HARRASSOWITZ reminds customers that Project MUSE's new combined books and journals platform will go live on January 1, 2012. Over 14,000 e-books from 66 university presses and related scholarly publishers as well as over 500 electronic journals will be available.

The new platform will include the following features:

· New hierarchical subject structure
· Faceted search functionality
· Enhanced browsing by subject area, title, or publisher, across books and journals or filtered by content type
· Search box with predictive search terms on each page of the site
· New access icons to distinguish between paid content, free sample content, and open access content
· Discovery and research tools at both the book and journal article level
· "Search Inside"-feature for both books and journals
· DOIs at title and chapter level for books, article level for journals

A beta test site is available to allow users to become familiar with the features of the new platform. Both the current Project MUSE platform as well as the beta site will continue to operate side-by-side until December 31, 2011. On January 1, 2012, the new platform will go live, replacing the current Project MUSE site.

MUSE will provide a one-month preview period during January 2012 to allow librarians and scholars to discover the significant breadth and depth of book content available on Project MUSE. At the end of the preview period, January 31, 2012, search results will default to only that content to which the searcher has full-text access.

If you have questions about the new platform please contact service@harrassowitz.de or your Regional Sales Manager.