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Project Muse

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Project Muse
ProducerJohns Hopkins University Press (United States)
History1993; 32 years ago (1993)
Access
CostSubscription
Coverage
Record depthIndex, abstract and full text
Format coverageBooks and journal articles
Links
Websitemuse.jhu.edu
Title list(s)muse.jhu.edu/browse/titles

Project Muse, a non-profit collaboration between libraries and publishers, is an online database of peer-reviewed academic journals and electronic books.[1] As of 2024, Project Muse hosts over 800 journals and 100,000 books in digital humanities and social sciences, sourced from approximately 400 university presses and scholarly societies worldwide.[2][3][4] It is an aggregator of digital versions of academic journals, all of which are free of digital rights management (DRM). It operates as a third-party acquisition service like EBSCO, JSTOR, OverDrive, and ProQuest.[5] Project Muse's online journal collections are available on a subscription basis to academic, public, special, and school libraries.[6]

History

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Project Muse was founded in 1993 as a joint project between the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at the Johns Hopkins University. With grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Project Muse was launched online alongside the JHU Press Journals in 1995.[7][8][9][10][11] In January 2012, Muse launched its eBook Collections on the platform in collaboration with the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC), fully integrating them for search and discovery alongside its established journal collections.[12][13][14]

Project Muse announced in 2023 the launch of its Subscribe to Open (S2O) program, an open access initiative scheduled to begin in 2025. This program allows participating journals to make their content freely available to all readers if a minimum subscription revenue threshold is met during the year.[15] In 2024, Project Muse said it will continue to serve libraries worldwide with access to a wide range of humanities and social science research materials, including thousands of open access books and several open access journals.[16]

Journals

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Project Muse offers tiered-pricing structures to meet budgetary and research needs of subscribing institutions.[10][17] Project Muse is also the sole source of full-text versions of journal titles from a number of university presses and scholarly societies.[18][19]

Books

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Supported by two grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The University Press e-book Consortium (UPeC) emerged in 2009 to explore the feasibility of, and later develop, a university press-based e-book initiative that would balance the interests of both the publishing and library communities.[13][20][21] In Spring 2011, UPeC announced its partnership with Project Muse, and the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC) Book Collections on Project Muse was established. Launched in January 2012, the UPCC Book Collections consist of thousands of peer-reviewed book titles from major university presses and related scholarly publishers. Book collections are fully integrated with Muse's electronic journal collections, allowing users to search across books and journals simultaneously or limit searches by content type.[20][13][22][23] In 2016, it launched an initiative to create an open access platform that also digitized out-of-print scholarly books under the effort called Muse Open.[24]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Gregg, Susan (August 26, 2022). "Introducing Project Muse Database". CSN Libraries. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  2. ^ "Higher Learning". Publishers Weekly. November 13, 2023. ISSN 0000-0019. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  3. ^ Hill, Mandy (2024). "From being disrupted to being a disruptor: How university presses are helping to drive positive change". Learned Publishing. 37 (S1) e1641. Wiley. doi:10.1002/leap.1641. ISSN 0953-1513.
  4. ^ Schonfeld, Roger C. (July 17, 2024). "Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Wendy Queen of Project MUSE". The Scholarly Kitchen. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  5. ^ McKenzie, Lindsay (October 17, 2018). "Closing the Gap Between University Presses and Libraries". Inside Higher Ed. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  6. ^ "Help with Project MUSE". University of Massachusetts Lowell. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  7. ^ "Project MUSE". Pennsylvania State University Libraries. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  8. ^ "Project Muse". Southeastern Louisiana University. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  9. ^ Amato, Sara (1997). "Internet Reviews". College & Research Libraries News. Vol. 58, no. 5. Association of College and Research Libraries. pp. 347–348. doi:10.5860/crln.58.5.347. ISSN 2150-6698. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025. Download this PDF file
  10. ^ a b Schaffner, Melanie B.; Luther, Judy; Ivins, October (September 2005). "Project MUSE's New Pricing Model: A Case Study in Collaboration". Serials Review. 31 (3). Routledge: 192–199. doi:10.1080/00987913.2005.10764984. ISSN 1879-095X.
  11. ^ Lewis, Susan E. (1995). "Project Muse and "The Web": An American university press goes on-line". Logos. 6 (2). Brill Publishers: 73–78. doi:10.2959/logo.1995.6.2.73. ISSN 1878-4712. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  12. ^ Price, Gary (July 29, 2011). "Project MUSE: New Titles and List Pricing for Journal Collections for 2012 Announced; University Press Content Consortium Beta Goes Live on August 1st". Library Journal. ISSN 0363-0277. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  13. ^ a b c Sheret, Larry (July 1, 2012). "UPCC Book Collections on Project MUSE". The Charleston Advisor. 14 (1). Annual Reviews: 44–47. doi:10.5260/chara.14.1.44. ISSN 1525-4011. Archived from the original on July 27, 2024. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  14. ^ "The UPCC and Project MUSE eBook Collection for Libraries". University of Pennsylvania Press. February 13, 2012. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  15. ^ Enis, Matt (November 2, 2023). "Subscribe to Open Grows with Project MUSE, Clarivate Partners with EveryLibrary, and More | News in Brief, October 2023". Library Journal. ISSN 0363-0277. Archived from the original on January 23, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  16. ^ Project MUSE (April 18, 2024). "Discover New Hosted Journals on Project MUSE". Library Journal. ISSN 0363-0277. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  17. ^ "Project MUSE". Minitex. Archived from the original on January 16, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  18. ^ "Project MUSE Journals and Books". Montana State University Library. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  19. ^ "Project MUSE". University of North Carolina Wilmington Library. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  20. ^ a b Johnson, Mark (2013). "University Press eBook Platforms: A Brief Overview". Against the Grain. 25 (6). Against the Grain, LLC: 31–35. doi:10.7771/2380-176X.7443. ISSN 1043-2094. Archived from the original on January 17, 2025. Retrieved January 17, 2025.
  21. ^ Kelley, Michael (January 28, 201). "New Ebook Platforms Target the Scholarly Monograph". Library Journal. ISSN 0363-0277. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  22. ^ Herther, Nancy K. (October 10, 2011). "University Presses Lead the Way for Publisher-Based Ebook Systems". Information Today. Archived from the original on November 28, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  23. ^ "Project MUSE Editions and UPeC Announce Merger". Center for Research Libraries. March 10, 2011. Archived from the original on September 27, 2024. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  24. ^ Christopher, Church (May 7, 2018). "Johns Hopkins University Press is giving out-of-print books new life". Technically Media. Archived from the original on June 13, 2018. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
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