Project MUSE News: Mary Rose Muccie Named Director, Project MUSE

[Melanie Schaffner <melanie@muse.jhu.edu>]

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MARY ROSE MUCCIE NAMED DIRECTOR, PROJECT MUSE

BALTIMORE (October 23, 2006) - The Johns Hopkins University Press 
is pleased to announce the appointment of Mary Rose Muccie as the 
new Director, Project MUSE. Muccie will take the helm of the 
Press's pioneering online scholarly journal publishing venture 
beginning December 4, 2006.

"Project MUSE is proud to provide a fair and sustainable model 
for electronic journal publishing that meets the needs of both 
libraries and not-for-profit scholarly publishers," said Kathleen 
Keane, director of The Johns Hopkins University Press. "We are 
delighted to have an experienced leader like Mary Rose in place 
to steer MUSE's future developments and cultivate its full 
potential as a powerful tool for scholarly research and 
communication."

Most recently, Muccie held the position of Publisher with the 
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), where she 
was responsible for all aspects of the society's book, journal, 
and electronic publishing activities. Among her accomplishments 
during her thirteen-year tenure with SIAM, Muccie counts the 
development of Locus, the society's complete journal archive 
digitization project, the successful negotiation of licenses for 
SIAM's online journal offerings with several major library 
consortia, and the launch of notable new journal titles including 
the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, an electronic-only 
title with an accompanying open-access web portal. Muccie also 
chaired SIAM's Library Advisory Committee and oversaw the 
society's reference and textbook publishing efforts, including 
e-book activities.

Prior to joining SIAM, Muccie held editorial and production 
positions with the J.B. Lippincott Company and the Philadelphia 
Bar Association. She is an active member of the North American 
Serials Interest Group, Special Libraries Association, and 
Society for Scholarly Publishing. Muccie earned a Bachelor of 
Arts in English from the University of Pennsylvania.

"I'm thrilled to be joining Project MUSE," said Muccie, "I look 
forward to engaging in an ongoing dialogue with MUSE 
participating publishers and the scholarly community, and to 
working with the MUSE staff to continue to provide an equitable 
and reliable model for online journal publishing in the 
humanities and social sciences."

Project MUSE, Scholarly Journals Online, provides online access 
via institutional subscription to the current full text of over 
330 peer-reviewed scholarly periodicals. Managed by the Johns 
Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the Milton S. 
Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University and the 
participating publishers, MUSE offers titles from numerous 
university presses and not-for-profit publishers in the 
humanities, the social sciences and the arts. The Project has 
been hailed for its library-friendly licensing and usage policies 
and user-friendly interface. Several affordable subscription 
options are available, with discounts offered to certain 
categories of libraries and for consortial purchases.For more 
information on MUSE, visit http://muse.jhu.edu.

Melanie B. Schaffner
Marketing and Sales Manager, Project MUSE
c/o The Johns Hopkins University Press
2715 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
p 410-516-3846
f 410-516-6968
melanie@muse.jhu.edu