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<h1 align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:29.25pt"><span class="tinymce-placeholder"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#254A62">Project MUSE and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Launch New
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<em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#254A62">(Washington, DC & Baltimore, MD)</span></em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#254A62"> – Project MUSE, a division of Johns Hopkins University Press,
in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, announces today a new landmark in the Museum’s longstanding
<a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/12lk8l/ppbixbeg/9kpxhub"><em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#E8552D">Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945
</span></em></a><em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(ECG) </span></em>series:
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ECG </span></em>volumes I-IV are now fully searchable, open access digital publications freely available to everyone around the world.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#254A62">The most comprehensive resource on Nazi persecutory sites, the
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ECG</span></em> offers users the ability to dynamically engage with empirically grounded research that documents thousands of camps, ghettos, and other sites of persecution operated by the Nazis and their allies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#254A62">Work on the multi-volume encyclopedia stretches back over twenty-five years and involves the work of over 700 scholars in the fields of history, Holocaust Studies, and other related
disciplines. To date, this global scholarly collaboration has documented evidence of thousands of camps and ghettos.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#254A62">Project MUSE and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are committed to broadening access to and increasing engagement with this vital scholarship. This new digital format will
be an invaluable resource for wide-ranging audiences, including scholars, researchers, Holocaust survivors and their descendants, digital humanists, educators, students, librarians, archivists, nonprofits, and the general public. Users will gain straightforward
access to extensive bibliographic citations comprising research in more than a dozen languages and varied source bases, including material in hundreds of archival collections, survivor and eyewitness testimonies, memoirs, diaries, memory books, and up-to-date
scholarship. Users can navigate to the text of the <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ECG</span></em> through
<a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/12lk8l/ppbixbeg/55qxhub" target="_self"><span style="color:#E8552D">a new interactive map</span></a> that demonstrates the vast scale of this network of Nazi-era persecution.
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<em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#254A62">“The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has been working on this foundational encyclopedia for decades. The move to open access will ensure that this resource reaches scholars,
researchers, and wider audiences wherever they are, thereby bringing new people into the conversation about the topic,”
</span></em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#254A62">said Dr. Lisa Leff, Director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#254A62">The first four volumes of this seven-volume collection will be available in the new fully searchable, digital format beginning May 8th. Content in the remaining three volumes will be
published online as it is available. In addition to the remaining volumes, newly updated content that incorporates previously inaccessible and undiscovered sources will continuously be added to the
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ECG</span></em>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#254A62">The ability to filter and search within and across volumes is a key component of the resource that empowers scholars to see the big picture
of this research and make connections between entries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#254A62">About Project MUSE</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#254A62"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#254A62"><a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/12lk8l/ppbixbeg/hjtxhub" target="_blank"><span style="color:#E8552D">Project MUSE</span></a> has offered libraries
affordable access to essential humanities and social science research for nearly 30 years, as an integral part of the scholarly communications ecosystem and platform of choice for respected not-for-profit publishers. Currently, Project MUSE is the trusted
and reliable source for over 800 journals and over 100,000 books, from nearly 400 of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. MUSE also hosts thousands of open access books and several open access journal titles, freely available to
anyone worldwide. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#254A62">About the US Holocaust Memorial Museum</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#254A62"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#254A62">A nonpartisan federal educational institution, the <a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/12lk8l/ppbixbeg/d4uxhub"><span style="color:#E8552D">United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum</span></a> is America’s national memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, dedicated to ensuring the permanence of Holocaust memory, understanding, and relevance. Through the power of Holocaust history, the Museum challenges
leaders and individuals worldwide to think critically about their role in society and to confront antisemitism and other forms of hate, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity. For more information, visit <a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/12lk8l/ppbixbeg/9owxhub"><span style="color:#E8552D">ushmm.org</span></a>.
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