Project MUSE for Publishers
Project MUSE partners with university presses and nonprofit publishers to deliver high-quality scholarship to libraries and researchers around the world. Through our strong institutional partnerships with academic libraries, we help ensure your books and journals reach scholars, students, and educators at thousands of institutions globally.
In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, Project MUSE provides the infrastructure, expertise, and market reach publishers need to distribute and promote their content effectively. Our trusted platform aggregates peer-reviewed journals and scholarly books from leading nonprofit publishers and university presses, making them easy for libraries to acquire and for researchers to discover.
By partnering with Project MUSE, publishers expand their global reach, strengthen relationships with libraries, and benefit from a platform designed to maximize discoverability, accessibility, and long-term impact.
Benefits for Journal Publishers
- Increase your journal’s visibility and reach through Project MUSE’s trusted platform and extensive global library network.
- Choose from flexible business models for subscription and open access journals, including royalty-earning collections and single-title subscriptions.
- Participate in the Subscribe to Open (S2O) to publish current issues open access while maintaining sustainable revenue.
- Simplify digital publishing operations through the MUSE Hosted program, with platform hosting, delivery, and optional subscription management and fulfillment services.
- Access expert support from our publisher relations, production, technology, and metadata teams to help navigate evolving digital standards and best practices.
To submit your journal for consider, please complete the Apply to Include Your Journal in Muse form.
Benefits for Book Publishers
- Expand your global library reach by making your books available through Project MUSE’s widely adopted platform.
- Sell books through multiple flexible models, enabling libraries to acquire content that aligns with their subject priorities and budgets.
- Increase discoverability and usage through a platform optimized for research workflows and library integration.
- Benefit from expert production, technology, and metadata support to ensure your content meets current digital publishing standards.
To include your books on Project MUSE, please complete the Apply to Put Your Books on Project MUSE form.
What Project MUSE Can Do For Your Journal
Be part of a trusted brand. We take care of the production, design, and technical decisions for you so you can focus on your content and marketing.
Project MUSE Journal Collections
Each year, Project MUSE adds a select few journals to its signature Journal Collections, which MUSE sells to institutions and libraries worldwide.
Apply to put your journal on MUSE
Applications to join Project MUSE are accepted year-round, and selections are made in the Spring for the following calendar year.
Project MUSE Open Access Books Program
Project MUSE’s Open Access Books Program, launching in summer 2018, offers publishers the ability to publish open access books on the MUSE platform.
Apply to put your book on MUSE
Project MUSE welcomes inquiries from non-profit, scholarly book publishers.
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Publishers
Project MUSE is a trusted provider of authoritative humanities and social science books and journals from more than 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. Click on a publisher name below to view full text from journals and books by this publisher in MUSE.
MUSE Presentations
2018 - 2021
Project MUSE recently hosted its annual publishers meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. This year we took the opportunity to welcome publishers to your own neighborhood, holding the meeting at the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus in the historic Charles Village neighborhood.
