Project MUSE, a
non-profit
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collaboration between libraries and publishers, is an online database of
peer-reviewed academic journals and
electronic books. Project MUSE contains digital
humanities
Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at th ...
and
social science
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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.
MUSE's online journal collections are available on a subscription basis to
academic
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,
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.
History
Project MUSE was founded in 1993 as a joint project between the