Project MUSE Appoints Terry Ehling as Associate Director, Content

Project MUSE is pleased to announce the appointment of Terry Ehling as Associate Director, Content Development and Publisher Relations, beginning August 1, 2011.

Ehling will play a lead role in the launch of the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC) ebook initiative that will deliver more than 15,000 ebooks from 65 university presses on Project MUSE. A beta site featuring integrated book and journal content in an enhanced MUSE interface will launch this summer, with sales beginning in the fall and the book collections available starting in January 2012.

“The JHU Press has entered an exciting new era as we launch the UPCC inside Project MUSE,” said Kathleen Keane, Director of the Johns Hopkins University Press. “Terry’s experience is a direct match with the innovative activities being undertaken by Project MUSE and the Press as a whole.”

Most recently the Scholarly Publishing Strategist for Cornell University Press, Ehling was responsible for setting ebook strategy for a program that publishes 150 monographs per year. She served as executive director for Project Euclid at Cornell, a multi publisher electronic publishing initiative in mathematics and launched CogNet, an online scholarly community for the brain and the cognitive sciences, as director of the Digital Projects Lab (DPL) at the MIT Press. Prior to founding the DPL, she was a senior acquisition editor at MIT where she was responsible for developing lists in computer science and economics.

“Terry brings twenty-five years of relevant publishing experience and a solid track record for leading digital publishing initiatives,” said Dean Smith, Director of Project MUSE. “She has a vision for the future of scholarly publishing and embodies our overall mission, ‘where tradition meets innovation.’”