Groundbreaking Islamic studies publication is a collaboration between the MIT Press and Brown University Digital Publications
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 2023 Annual Frontlist Collections of books on Project MUSE are now available for purchase, with a 20% early bird discount offered on purchases through February 2023. The Annual Frontlist Collections offer libraries the earliest access to newly-published books from the more than 200 university press and related scholarly publishers who participate in MUSE book collections. The 2023 Complete Annual Frontlist collection is guaranteed to include over 2,700 new releases, an increase of nearly 300 titles over the 2022 collection.
Project MUSE is pleased to announce an expansion of its relationship with the University of Toronto Press
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.
Explore an article by Project MUSE's Publisher Relations Manager Phil Hearn, on questions surrounding Open Access (OA) monographs and Project MUSE
Director of Project MUSE looks forward to representing MUSE & partner publishers
MUSE's hosted journal offerings have doubled, giving libraries further flexibility and control over subscriptions
MUSE's new metadata strategist will work and liaison with our library customers and discovery partners
CEU Press makes its most pertinent titles on Ukraine and its neighbors freely available on the Project MUSE platform.
Over 200 people have already registered to attend MUSE Meets 2022! Registration is FREE, and all sessions will be open to any individuals with an interest in digital scholarship.
We are pleased to announce that MUSE Meets 2022, a free and open virtual gathering focused on not-for-profit scholarly humanities and social science publishing, connecting the publisher, librarian, and researcher communities that MUSE serves, will take place on April 5-6, 2022!
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.
Pricing is available and orders may now be placed for the 2022 frontlist collections of books on Project MUSE.
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.
Project MUSE today launches a new MUSE in Focus on its digital platform, “MUSE in Focus: Humanity’s “Code Red” on Climate Change.”
Project MUSE is excited to announce a flexible and cost-effective new way to acquire scholarly books on the platform. MUSE Books Custom Collections allow libraries ultimate choice, to design a collection that meets their needs and their budgets.
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 Serves as Host Platform for New Initiative
Central European University (CEU) Press, in partnership with COPIM, is pleased to announce that our Opening the Future initiative is now fully live, and member access to the programme’s curated backlist of books is available from Tuesday 19th January, through Project MUSE.
A selection of scholarship from Project MUSE publishers exploring the political and societal forces that built up to the violence of January 6th.
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.
What are the urgent issues facing publishers and librarians? What threats and opportunities will shape the future of digital publishing in the humanities and social sciences? What areas call for better communication and shared understanding?
Project MUSE will offer five new subject collections, along with titles from eight additional publishers, in its book collections for the 2021 calendar year. The 2021 Complete collection is expected to be 7% larger than the prior year – offering nearly 3,000 newly-published books, about 200 more than the 2020 Complete. By the end of 2021, the Book Collections on Project MUSE will offer well over 68,000 titles, from more than 200 distinguished university presses and related not-for-profit publishers, providing a wealth of essential, vetted, reliable digital scholarship to libraries, researchers, instructors, and students worldwide.
The Central European University Press (CEUP) announces that it is transitioning to an open access (OA) monograph programme through its new library subscription membership initiative, Opening the Future. CEUP will provide access to portions of their highly-regarded backlist and use the revenue from members’ subscriptions to allow the frontlist to be OA from the date of publication. The Press is working with the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project. Project MUSE will serve as hosting platform for the subscription packages and new OA titles.
After a pause for the pandemic, Project MUSE is proceeding with the launch of a long-planned anniversary website that collects the stories and celebrates the milestones of “25 years supporting digital scholarship.” The anniversary website features a new video, a timeline of the platform’s evolution and growth, and reflections from 25 current and former staff members and associates. It also includes a new read-for-free curated selection of MUSE content from a variety of publishers called “MUSE in Focus: Charting the Digital Humanities.”
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.
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.
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.
Amid ongoing concern about COVID-19, Project MUSE’s top priority is the health and safety of our employees. We are all currently doing well, and we very much hope you are too. We understand the concern and uncertainty you may be experiencing around this evolving situation, and we want to assure you that we are committed to being responsive to all of our customers' needs.
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.
Pricing and other details are now available for all of Project MUSE’s 2020 book collections. By the end of the 2020 calendar year, MUSE will host over 63,000 titles from more than 120 distinguished not-for-profit publishers from around the world. Our 2020 Complete collection will offer nearly 3,000 newly-published humanities and social science titles from our expanding group of university presses, scholarly societies, academic centers, and related global publisher participants.
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.
More than 36,000 ebooks from Project MUSE, focused on humanities and social sciences, are now available for title-by-title purchase in the OASIS platform. MUSE books are all digital rights management (DRM)-free, with unlimited simultaneous usage and no download, print, or copy/paste restrictions.
Project MUSE is pleased to welcome four additional publishers contributing titles to our Book Collections on MUSE for 2019. Arc Humanities Press, Harvard University Asia Center Publications Program, University of Missouri/Missouri Review Books, and University of Tampa Press books will be available on the MUSE platform starting next year, joining nearly 58,000 titles from more than 100 distinguished university presses and related scholarly publishers in the humanities and social sciences.
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.
Project MUSE’s newly redesigned website is now live.
