Project MUSE Journals Premium Plus Package

The Project MUSE Journals Premium Plus Package provides access to a large bundle of titles that are part of the journal hosting program on the Project MUSE platform. These titles are not included in any of the MUSE Journal Collections, and are only available for institutional subscription on MUSE as single titles, or via a subscription to the new Premium Plus Package (first introduced in 2022). Libraries that subscribe to both the MUSE Premium Collection of journals, and this Premium Plus Package add-on, will have access to current content, plus all available backfiles, for all but a handful of the journals on the MUSE platform.

View subscription fees and download a title list for the Premium Plus Package

We know that for many libraries choosing to subscribe to the MUSE Premium Collection, one of the benefits was access to all the journals on the platform. With the launch and rapid expansion of MUSE's journal hosting program, there are now many titles on MUSE that are not available through the Premium Collection, or any other curated collection, because they are not part of that business model for journals on MUSE. Further, the publishers with journals hosted on MUSE are seeking to expand the reach of their titles to the many libraries that currently acquire journals and books on our platform. The Premium Plus Package provides an easy, affordable way for a library to add access to nearly all the hosted journal content on MUSE, expanding their coverage and helping to sustain the many independent not-for-profit publishers whose titles are included.

The Premium Plus Package will be updated annually to include any newly-hosted journals that choose to participate. Hosted journal publishers may opt their titles in to the Premium Plus Package on an annual basis. Subscriptions to the package run on a calendar year, in sync with subscriptions to MUSE's curated journal collections. Currently, both a 2022 Premium Plus Package and a 2023 Premium Plus Package are available - each contains all but a handful of the journals that are or will be hosted on the platform that calendar year.

All journals in the MUSE journal hosting program are peer-reviewed and come from not-for-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses, scholarly societies, university departments, and independent scholar-led journals. The journals cover a wide range of humanities and social science disciplines, and provide additional depth and breadth of coverage in many core subjects when combined with one of MUSE's large interdisciplinary journal collections.

Premium Plus Package Title Lists and Pricing

The Premium Plus Package is offered at a 5% discount from the sum of the individual subscription fees for the included titles. Further discounts may be available by ordering via one of MUSE's consortium partners. Subscriptions run on a calendar year term (January 1 - December 31), with fees for any subscriptions that begin after January 31 prorated by the number of months remaining in the current year. Access to titles in the current year package will be provided immediately upon order processing, access for orders for the upcoming year's package will begin on January 1.

2023 Premium Plus Package

The 2023 Premium Plus Package includes 74 journal titles from 37 publishers.

Annual Subscription Fee: $10,450

Download the title list for the 2023 Premium Plus Package

Contact MUSE Sales to order the Premium Plus Package, or with any questions about the package.

Comprehensive Coverage

A subscription to the Premium Plus Package, when combined with a subscription to the MUSE Premium Collection, provides current access to every subscription journal from these publishers:

Arc Humanities Press
Brookings Institution Press
Catholic University of America Press
Cornell University Press
Gallaudet University Press
Indiana University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Kent State University Press
Modern Humanities Research Association
Ohio State University Press
Royal Irish Academy
Slavica Publishers
State University of New York Press
University of Alabama Press
University of Cincinnati Press
University of Hawai'i Press
University of Minnesota Press
University of Nebraska Press
University of North Carolina Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
Wayne State University Press
West Virginia University Press

The Premium Plus Package includes all but a handful of the journal titles that recently migrated to the Project MUSE platform from the discontinued JSTOR Current Hosting Program, and which were not already included in MUSE's Premium Collection - this includes journals that were offered in the JSTOR "CSP Legacy" package as well as many titles which were not included in that package.

More About the Premium Plus Package

Some other important details to know about the Premium Plus Package:

A subscription to this package is covered by the Project MUSE Journal Collection Subscription License. If you already have a license with us for a MUSE Journal Collection, you do not need anything further to cover a subscription to this package.
COUNTER-compliant usage statistics, holdings information, and other tools to manage the Premium Plus Package subscription are available in the MUSE Library Dashboard, just as they are for the curated MUSE Collections.
MUSE provides Premium Plus Package metadata to all major library discovery services, making it easy to enable discovery of the journals in the package.
MUSE expects to release details annually about the upcoming year's Premium Plus Package on the same cycle as renewal details for our curated Journal Collections. Our objective is that libraries subscribing to a MUSE Journal Collection and the Premium Plus Package should be able to renew these subscriptions at the same time, through the same channels.
All of the journals in the Premium Plus Package are also available for single title institutional subscriptions.