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Project MUSE's Subscribe to Open (S2O) program provides libraries and institutions with an opportunity to support sustainable open access in scholarly publishing while maintaining access to a comprehensive collection of humanities and social sciences journals. 

By continuing your subscription with Project MUSE through S2O, you contribute to the success of equitable open access opportunities, ensuring ongoing participation and access to essential research literature for your institution and supporting the broader academic community. 

Subscribing to a MUSE journal collection with a Subscribe to Open model allows libraries to:

  • Subscribe to journal collections that support open access requirements and/or mandates
  • Align your library's purchasing with a shared mission: Project MUSE is a nonprofit organization working only with nonprofit publishers
  • Support equitable global open access to humanities and social services content

Subscribe to Open journals are represented in every collection that Project MUSE offers. See the list of participating journals publishers or download a full list of titles included in the 2026 S2O Program. 

Subscribing to a journal collection from MUSE is easy: the same product, same license, and same renewal process as you have in the past.

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Subscribe to Open Content in Journal Collections

Explore the extensive journal collections on Project MUSE that feature Subscribe to Open journals. 

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Subscribe to Open Decisions

In Q1 of 2026, Project MUSE will announce the support of S2O for the journals participating in the program. There are now two ways in which the decision is made. 

 

For journals participating in our hosting program and Plus Package, the publisher will make the decision for their journals. Project MUSE will support their decision and announce to our subscribers in conjunction with the publisher. 

 

For journals participating in our collections program, Project MUSE will make the decision for journals based on achieving the yearly threshold. Project MUSE will announce to our subscribers in conjunction with the publishers.  

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