Project MUSE has partnered with the University Press e-Book Consortium (UPeC) to offer top-quality peer-reviewed books from university presses and scholarly publishers. The University Press Content Consortium (UPCC) e-Book Collections, powered by Project MUSE, launched on January 1, 2012. Currently over 90 university presses and scholarly societies are partnering with Project MUSE, and over 35,000 ebook titles are projected to be in the MUSE collections in 2015.
LYRASIS libraries will join the carefully-negotiated central group license that includes the best possible terms of use for the content. The license, negotiated by LYRASIS on behalf of ARL libraries in 2012, contains terms key to the future of appropriate and accessible use of ebooks in academic libraries. Libraries that support this central license will add their voices to the conversation about key usage rights for ebooks in libraries today. Please direct questions to
LYRASIS Support , or 800.999.8558 x 3900.
The MUSE/UPCC ebook collections include the following:
- Calendar-year collections of titles published in 2010-2015 by participating publishers.
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Over 20 subject and area studies collections available by year since 2010.
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Pre-purchase of future years' frontlist titles, with a guaranteed number of titles to be delivered in the collection.
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Digital book released simultaneous with print book.
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Ownership and perpetual access rights for books purchased.
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Books in PDF format, searchable and retrievable to the chapter level.
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Unlimited simultaneous usage of book content, with no DRM and no restrictions on printing or downloading.
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COUNTER-compliant usage statistics.
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Free MARC records for all books.
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Books fully integrated on the MUSE platform with the ability to search across combined book and journal content or limit searches by content type.
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Complete and subject-based collections of archival titles.
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No annual hosting fee if library subscribes to MUSE journal collections or has purchased an ebook collection in the last 24 months
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Downloadable to mobile devices in PDF
Subject and Area Studies collections include:
- African Studies
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American Studies
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Archeology and Anthropology
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Asian and Pacific Studies
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Classics
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Ecology and Evolution
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Film Theater and Performing Arts
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Global Cultural Studies
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Higher Education
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History
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Jewish Studies
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Language and Linguistics
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Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Literature
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Native American and Indigenous Studies
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Philosophy and Religion
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Poetry, Fiction, and Creative NonFiction
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Political Science and Policy Studies
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Psychology
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Russian and East European Studies
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U.S. Regional Studies - Midwest
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U.S. Regional Studies - New England and Mid Atlantic
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U.S. Regional Studies - South
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U.S. Regional Studies - West
MUSE/UPCC book collection
title lists
MUSE/UPCC collection
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MUSE/UPCC
participating publishers
Purchases may be made any time throughout the year.
Purchases may include current and forthcoming collections as well as collections from prior years.
Free sample book content is always available on the MUSE site.
Trial access to book collections is not available.
Purchased content is available with perpetual access rights or by an annual subscription model.
LYRASIS has negotiated a central license with the best possible terms. Participating institutions placing new orders will be asked to agree to abide by the terms at that time.
