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Friday, 2nd October 2009

Mary Rose Muccie New Current Journals Director at JSTOR

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From the Announcement:

Mary Rose Muccie will join JSTOR, a service of the not-for-profit organization ITHAKA, on October 26, 2009 as Current Journals Director where she will lead efforts to cultivate and deepen relationships with university presses and scholarly associations, building their participation in the new Current Scholarship Program announced last month by JSTOR and University of California Press. She will also manage the Program’s operations and lead its business strategy going forward.

”The Current Scholarship Program continues JSTOR’s long history of sustainable collaborative programs that benefit libraries, publishers, and scholars,” says Muccie. “I look forward to being a part of this important solution and to working with colleagues at all levels to make it a success.”

A highly regarded leader in digital publishing, Muccie has led Project MUSE, an online aggregation of humanities and social science journals that is part of Johns Hopkins University Press for the last three years. During that time she initiated a substantial upgrade of features and functionality of the MUSE website and reworked MUSE policies to provide a better return for publishers and enable growth for the organization. Prior to joining MUSE, Mary Rose served for 13 years at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), most recently as Publisher, overseeing both their journals and book publications. At both MUSE and SIAM, Muccie collaborated with JSTOR, first to digitize and make available SIAM’s archival journal content and later to establish connections between the JSTOR and MUSE platforms to ease faculty and student use of the content across the sites.

“I can think of no better candidate to lead this new initiative,” commented Michael Spinella, ITHAKA’s Executive Vice President of Global Content Alliances and JSTOR Managing Director. “We are absolutely thrilled that Mary Rose is joining us. She has a deep understanding of digital publishing and the diverse needs of publishing organizations, a track record of delivering value and results, and an infectious dedication demonstrated throughout her career to serving the scholarly community.”

The Current Scholarship Program will build on what JSTOR is today and aims to provide a new and sustainable approach to online publishing. It will make current and historical scholarly content available on a single, integrated platform, provide a single point of purchase and access for librarians and end users around the world, and ensure its long-term preservation. “I am excited by the vision for this initiative,” said Muccie. “It recognizes the benefits that can be realized through scale and collaboration, but also values in meaningful ways the independence that press and society publishers need in setting prices and other areas to be successful.” The first current content will be available to libraries beginning in 2011.

Muccie will start work later this month and relocate back to the Philadelphia area, her home for many years before joining MUSE. She will work in ITHAKA’s Princeton office.

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