Project Muse
| Producer | Johns Hopkins University Press (United States) |
|---|---|
| History | 1993 to present |
| Access | |
| Cost | Subscriptions |
| Coverage | |
| Record depth | Index, abstract & full-text |
| Format coverage | Books / Journal, trade & magazine articles |
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Project MUSE, a non-profit collaboration between libraries and publishers, is an online database of peer reviewed academic journals and electronic books. Project MUSE provides access to digital humanities and social science content from over 250 university presses and scholarly societies around the world.
The goal of Project MUSE is to disseminate high-quality scholarly material through an affordable and sustainable model that meets the needs of libraries, publishers, and scholars. MUSE’s online journal collections are available on a subscription basis to academic, public, special, and school libraries. Currently, more than 2,500 libraries worldwide subscribe to Project MUSE. Electronic book collections in MUSE became available for institutional purchase in January 2012. Thousands of scholarly books are now available on the platform.
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. Beginning in 2000, journals from other scholarly publishers were integrated into MUSE’s online collections. Additional publishers have added journals to Project MUSE each subsequent year. In January 2012, Project MUSE launched a new interface that incorporated its current journal collection with electronic books published by members of the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC).
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