Project MUSE
Project MUSE is an online database of current and back issues of peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals. It was founded in 1993 by Todd Kelley and Susan Lewis and is a project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. It had support from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2007 it provided 1200 subscribing libraries with access to 144,000 articles from 393 journals from 93 nonprofit publishers; the numbers rise every month. As of November, 2009, there were 158,450 articles from 427 journals by 106 publishers.[1] Libraries pay on average $22 per year per title, compared to the average $201 for a paper version.[2]
Typically, students and faculty at the subscribing libraries can find articles using search routines and can immediately access the articles. Its main rival is JSTOR, which provides access to a different set of academic journals. The main differences are that MUSE provides both PDF and HTML files, and includes the most recent issues. JSTOR provides PDF files only, and has a "moving wall" policy to protect publishers, such that online issues of more than 90% of its titles do not become available until at least three years have passed since publication of the print issue.[3]
[edit] References
- Dye, Jessica L. "Project MUSE Celebrates 10 Years," Information Today, October 2005, Vol. 22, Issue 9
[edit] Notes
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- ^ Kathleen Keen, "University Press Forum: Variations on a Digital Theme," Journal of Scholarly Publishing, (July 2007), Vol. 38 Issue 4, pp 215-17
- ^ "Moving Wall" (Web). JSTOR. 2009. http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/archives/journals/movingWall.jsp. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
