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Project MUSE Journals 2021-2023

  • Start: 1 Jan 2021
    Expiry: 31 Dec 2023
  • Description:

    Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. MUSE is a trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating.

Product overview

The publisher offers the following main collections:

  • Premium
  • Standard
  • Basic Research
  • Basic College
  • Humanities
  • Social Sciences

The following subject collections are also available. Content includes:

  • Arts Collection - 48 titles
  • Asian Studies Collection - 36 titles
  • History Collection - 62 titles
  • Literature Core Collection - 81 titles
  • Literature Expanded Collection - 80 titles
  • Philosophy and Religion Collection - 47 titles

Details of titles in all collections are available. Institutions can also use the Collection Comparison Tool to compare collections by title.

The list of publishers included in Project MUSE is available.

A holdings comparison chart is available to support subscription analysis.

Project MUSE is a not for profit publisher and is unable to include journals published by for-profit companies. Please see this page for information that explains their structure. MUSE is also unable to include journals which are freely available elsewhere online to avoid charging its library customers for content that they can get for free elsewhere on the internet.

Project MUSE participates in Knowledge Unlatched's Anti Double Dipping Alliance.

There are no price increases on any of the journal collections for 2021 or 2022. https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/news/#PriceFreeze

Customers are allowed to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel as their needs and budget require. The Collection Comparison Chart is available and there is an Excel download option: https://about.muse.jhu.edu/librarians/collection-comparison/2/current/

Usage data, MARC, KBART are all behind the Librarians Login. https://about.muse.jhu.edu/lib/docs/content

Update Type

Mixed

Update Notes

Information not available.

Accessibility

The John Hopkins University Press accessibility page

Project MUSE is committed to making the website accessible to all users and complying with Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act.

Authentication

Authentication is via the UK Access Management Federation, Athens, IP address range, and referring URL.

Federated searching

Project MUSE is Z39.50 compliant.

Full text linking

Project MUSE is compliant with the OpenURL standard.

Marc records

Users can download catalogue record sets in MARC21 format with full level description and Library of Congress (LC) subject headings. The records reflect journals launched as of the beginning of the subscription year. Updates to the records will be added periodically as new journals are launched during the subscription year. You may download the records from the MUSE MARC Records Request page.

Personalisation

Libraries can include their institutional branding and set up RSS feeds. Please visit http://muse.jhu.edu/about/librarians/index.html for more information.

Post search options

Users can save marked articles and export marked results.

Search options

Users can perform an article or an advanced search.

Usage statistics

Project MUSE's usage reports are compliant with the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases, available in Excel and XML formats.

Participating institutions can also access usage statistics via the Journals Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP).

Login information

https://muse.jhu.edu/shibboleth

Administrative support

MUSE Support: muse@press.jhu.edu

Publisher contact (sales)

Ann Snoeyenbos
Coordinator for international sales and special markets
Project MUSE/JHU Press
2715 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
USA

Telephone: 00 1 410-516-6992
Fax: 001 410-516-6968

Email: anns@muse.jhu.edu

Subscription help

help.digitalresources@jisc.ac.uk

Technical support

For queries of a technical nature, please use the technical support form at https://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/support.cgi

Training materials

Training Materials

User support

Email muse@press.jhu.edu, or call 00 1 410 516 6989.