News and Announcements

OA Journals in Cultural Studies and Transcendentalism Join the MUSE Platform

Johns Hopkins University Press has appointed Wendy Queen as its inaugural Chief Transformation Officer. 

Project MUSE, a division of Johns Hopkins University Press, and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, announce a series of open access Case Studies on Democracy now available on the Project MUSE platform. 

Hundreds of peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences are available for single title subscriptions

In our latest hosting program news, six more journals, including a fully open access journal, are now live on the platform. 

Project MUSE and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Announce Landmark Initiative to Host Comprehensive Scholarly Resource on Nazi Persecutory Sites

Melanie Schaffner, Director of Communication, Marketing, and Engagement at Project MUSE and friend to so many of you in our scholarly communication community passed away peacefully at her home on July 5, 2024.

Project MUSE welcomes FiT Publishing

Five new additions to Project MUSE's hosted journals program are now live on the platform!

As of January 2024, the number of participating publishers has reached 24 publishers representing 88 journals and is still growing. 

Fifty journals from more than 20 publishers are confirmed to date for participation in Project MUSE's Subscribe to Open program - coming in 2025 - with more expected to join before the end of this year.

Miller's appointment to the newly-established position furthers a strategic growth process at MUSE that has seen the organization enhance its capacity and reach, while strengthening the alignment of its relationships with libraries and publishers.

Hundreds of peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences are available for single title subscription on the Project MUSE platform, representing the best scholarship from university presses, scholarly societies, and related not-for-profit publishers. Following are some updates to single title subscriptions on MUSE for the 2024 calendar year.

Libraries can expand access to timely and trusted scholarship with the Project MUSE Journals PLUS+ Package, a large bundle of journal titles that are part of the journal hosting program on the MUSE platform, and are not included in any of MUSE's curated journal collections. The package is an affordable and convenient way to add vital, current, peer-reviewed literature to a library’s collection, and support academy-owned and independent non-profit publishers.

Project MUSE is pleased to announce five titles confirmed to join our curated Journal Collections beginning in 2024.

Project MUSE and its participating publishers are pleased to announce a program to provide free access to selected journal titles in many low-income countries. All available volumes and issues from more than 250 titles are now available for free access to any individual from 19 countries.

Following a year of research and community engagement funded by a planning grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Public Knowledge Program, Project MUSE is preparing a Subscribe to Open (S2O) offer across multiple journal titles and participating publishers that will begin with the 2025 calendar year subscription term.

The Project MUSE Premium Plus Package provides access to a large bundle of journal titles that are part of the journal hosting program on the MUSE platform

Project MUSE is pleased to announce five titles confirmed to join our curated Journal Collections beginning in 2023. 

MUSE's hosted journal offerings have doubled, giving libraries further flexibility and control over subscriptions

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, widely known as the founders of Black History Month, has selected Project MUSE to host its journal, Black History Bulletin. 

MUSE will host five additional titles from University of Minnesota Press and three from the Wayne State University Press, making the MUSE platform the home for all subscription journals from both publishers.

With the addition of eight journals in 2022, all of IUP's subscription titles will be on the MUSE platform, with fulfillment handled by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

The Royal Irish Academy has chosen the Project MUSE platform to host their journals, beginning in 2022. 

Project MUSE is delighted to announce that, beginning in 2022, five subscription journals from the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) will be hosted on the MUSE platform. 

Project MUSE Journal Collection subscription pricing will again remain flat for 2022, meaning fees for all MUSE collections will continue to be frozen at 2020 prices. Four journals are confirmed to join the Premium Collection.

Project MUSE partners with UNSILO (a brand of CACTUS) to offer AI-generated content recommendations. UNSILO recently completed the initial indexing of the Project MUSE content collection and enhanced related content recommendations appear throughout the platform.

Project MUSE has received a $75,000 planning grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Public Knowledge Program to study the innovative business model for open access journal publishing known as “Subscribe to Open.” MUSE Open: S2O will assess how Subscribe to Open (S2O) might be coordinated across multiple journals and publishers—the potential pilot could transform access to humanities and social sciences journals.

Project MUSE is pleased to announce seven additional journal titles now available on our platform.

A selection of scholarship from Project MUSE publishers exploring the political and societal forces that built up to the violence of January 6th.

Four Project MUSE journals are recipients of awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), presented during the 2021 Modern Language Association (MLA) meeting earlier this month. 

New Additions, Title Status Changes

Project MUSE is pleased to announce four additional titles that will be joining its Premium Collection of journals for 2021. Acta Koreana, Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History, Urban History Review, and The Yale Review join two previously-announced titles - The French Review and T’ang Studies - bringing the total number of new additions to the Premium Collection to six journals.

Project MUSE is pleased to announce expanded and enhanced journal hosting services for 2021. Originally introduced in 2015, MUSE’s hosting service has provided an option for publishers to place journals on the MUSE platform outside of its renowned Journal Collections Program. Project MUSE will introduce new, streamlined hosting fees for 2021 in order to make the services more accessible to a wider variety of non-profit publishers.

Today, Project MUSE launches a new MUSE in Focus commemorating the 19th Amendment. With participation from its wide range of publishing partners, the content examines the history of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States and how the struggle for political equity continues today.

MUSE adds two new Journals to our Premium Collection. We welcome 'The French Review', the largest circulating French and francophone studies journal in the world. For humanities scholars of the Tang and Five Dynasties period, we welcome the journal of the T'ang Studies Society. Read the details of our 2021 price freeze.

Project MUSE is pleased to share information about seven more journal titles now hosted on our platform. These titles are not included in MUSE Journal Collections, but are either open access or available to institutions as individual title subscriptions.

"MUSE in Focus: Confronting Structural Racism" is a selection of temporarily free books and articles from a wide range of publishers and perspectives about the history of racism in America, its endurance throughout society, and how the country can respond now to enact meaningful and lasting reform. We hope that this selection of research can help inform the necessary conversations and actions around this topic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted both Project MUSE's library customers and its participating not-for-profit publishers, along with the rest of the research and education community. After a great deal of consultation with our constituents, in light of the ongoing operational and financial pressures affecting us all, we have made a decision to keep pricing for all our Project MUSE Journal Collections flat for the 2021 calendar year subscription term.

"MUSE in Focus: Contextualizing Pandemic" is a small sampling of temporarily free scholarship from Project MUSE publishers on the broad topic of pandemic and its effects throughout history, in culture, and on humanity as a whole. We hope that bringing these pieces together will help to bring historical and cultural context to the current crisis, so that we may look to the knowledge of the past to guide us forward.

In the past week, Project MUSE has partnered with the community of not-for-profit scholarly presses providing journals and books on our platform to offer significant amounts of that content for free. More than 50 publishers have chosen to temporarily make content freely available to assist with access for the many students, faculty, and researchers now working remotely due to the global public health crisis of COVID-19.

In response to the challenges created by the global public health crisis of COVID-19, Project MUSE is pleased to support its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on our platform.

Project MUSE is pleased to announce that content is now available on our platform from all of the journals joining our collections in 2020. The newly-added titles bring the total number of distinguished humanities and social science journals contributing current issues to the MUSE collections to 598.

Project MUSE is pleased to announce that the following journals have been confirmed to join our journals collection in 2020. All titles will be added to the MUSE Journals Premium Collection.

Project MUSE is temporarily providing free access to more than a dozen journal articles and books focused on understanding and preventing gun violence. The goal is to encourage the broadest possible engagement with current research and expertise on the topic as the latest round of gun policy debates and discussions continue in the wake of shootings in California, Texas, and Ohio.

Project MUSE is pleased to announce that the following journals have been confirmed to join MUSE in 2019. All new journals will be added to the MUSE Journals Premium Collection.