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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS ANNOUNCES MARY ROSE MUCCIE AS DIRECTOR, PROJECT MUSE

As Director, Project Muse, Mary Rose Muccie will constantly review and refresh the shared vision of Project MUSE among its diverse constituencies in scholarly publishing – scholars, librarians, and publishers. She will lead the design, development, and implementation of a strategic plan to achieve objectives identified. Additionally, Mary Rose will lead product development activities and functionality improvement plans, and proactively seek new revenue opportunities and cost control initiatives.

Mary Rose Muccie is an experienced publisher who has worked in both for-profit and non-profit environments. Most recently, she 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.

About Project Muse:

Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

MUSE began in 1993 as a pioneering joint project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at JHU. Today, MUSE is still a not-for-profit collaboration between the participating publishers and MSEL, with the goal of disseminating quality scholarship via a sustainable model that meets the needs of both libraries and publishers.

About Johns Hopkins University Press:

Today JHU Press is one of the world's largest university presses, publishing 58 scholarly periodicals and more than 200 new books each year. Through Project MUSE®, the Press is a leading online provider of scholarly journals, bringing more than 250 periodicals to the desktops of 9 million students, scholars, and others worldwide. In addition, the Press provides order processing, computer service, warehousing, and shipping for other publishing houses.

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