Project Muse
Project MUSE, a non-profit collaboration between libraries and publishers, is an online database of peer-reviewed academic journals and electronic books. Project MUSE contains digital humanities and social science content from over 250 university presses and scholarly societies around the world. It is an aggregator of digital versions of academic journals, all of which are free of digital rights management (DRM). It operates as a third-party acquisition service like EBSCO, JSTOR, OverDrive, and ProQuest.
| Producer | Johns Hopkins University Press (United States) |
|---|---|
| History | 1993 to present |
| Access | |
| Cost | Subscription |
| Coverage | |
| Record depth | Index, abstract and full text |
| Format coverage | Books and journal articles |
| Links | |
| Website | muse |
| Title list(s) | muse |
MUSE's online journal collections are available on a subscription basis to academic, public, special, and school libraries. Currently, more than 2,500 libraries worldwide subscribe. Electronic book collections became available for institutional purchase in January 2012. Thousands of scholarly books are available on the platform.