e-Duke Scholarly Collection Trial Access

Please note that we now have a trial (as of 1/9/07) to the E-Duke collection of journals published by Duke University Press, which were formerly part of Project Muse. It seems very likely that we will subscribe to this collection once the trial is over to restore access to the titles which was lost when Duke ceased their participation in Project Muse.

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SCELC is pleased to offer the e-Duke Scholarly Collection. This collection of 20 online journals in the humanities and social sciences were formerly found in Project MUSE. Those titles were removed from Project MUSE more than one year ago and Duke has put together their own package of these titles.

Attached please find an order form and a spreadsheet detailing the specific costs for each of the libraries receiving this message. Refer to the spreadsheet for your cost tier (as noted below) and mark the order form accordingly.

Here's a description of this product:

The e-Duke Scholarly Collection <http://www.dukeupress.edu/library/eDuke/index.html>, hosted by HighWire Press, offers online access to twenty-nine Duke humanities and social science journals <http://www.dukeupress.edu/library/eDuke/titles.html>. Pricing for the collection is based on the electronic-only subscription rate and is discounted from 33% to 84%, depending on an institution's 2000 Carnegie Classification category. A complete list of subscribers may be found here <http://www.dukeupress.edu/library/eDuke/subs.html>.

Features of the e-Duke Scholarly Collection include:

• tiered discounting
• access to available issues from the 2000-2007 volumes
• deep discounts on print subscriptions (60%-80%)
• members retain perpetual access to the content from the years they have paid for

Features on HighWire Press include

• access to back content for current subscribers (for most titles)
• enhanced search features and reference linking
• COUNTER 2-compliant usage statistics
• table-of-contents alerting
• toll-free access across cited journals within HighWire's collection (919 journals)
• RSS feeds

Also, to clarify the journal content in e-Duke, Duke pulled twenty titles from Project Muse. Nine Duke titles still have current content in Muse. The package is heavily discounted because the base price for the package is based on the twenty titles pulled, not all 29 titles. Duke didn't want to charge libraries twice for the same content, since just about all e-Duke customers also receive content from Muse.