News and Announcements

Project MUSE is pleased to share the following news on behalf of our partners in the Opening the Future open access monographs initiative at the Central European University Press. MUSE is the platform for both the subscription and OA book titles from CEU Press in the program.

We are pleased to announce that MUSE Meets 2022, a free and open virtual gathering focused on not-for-profit scholarly humanities and social science publishing, connecting the publisher, librarian, and researcher communities that MUSE serves, will take place on April 5-6, 2022!

MUSE will host five additional titles from University of Minnesota Press and three from the Wayne State University Press, making the MUSE platform the home for all subscription journals from both publishers.

Pricing is available and orders may now be placed for the 2022 frontlist collections of books on Project MUSE. 

With the addition of eight journals in 2022, all of IUP's subscription titles will be on the MUSE platform, with fulfillment handled by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Project MUSE today launches a new MUSE in Focus on its digital platform, “MUSE in Focus: Humanity’s “Code Red” on Climate Change.”

Project MUSE is excited to announce a flexible and cost-effective new way to acquire scholarly books on the platform. MUSE Books Custom Collections allow libraries ultimate choice, to design a collection that meets their needs and their budgets.

The Royal Irish Academy has chosen the Project MUSE platform to host their journals, beginning in 2022. 

Project MUSE is delighted to announce that, beginning in 2022, five subscription journals from the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) will be hosted on the MUSE platform. 

Project MUSE Journal Collection subscription pricing will again remain flat for 2022, meaning fees for all MUSE collections will continue to be frozen at 2020 prices. Four journals are confirmed to join the Premium Collection.

Project MUSE partners with UNSILO (a brand of CACTUS) to offer AI-generated content recommendations. UNSILO recently completed the initial indexing of the Project MUSE content collection and enhanced related content recommendations appear throughout the platform.

Project MUSE has received a $75,000 planning grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Public Knowledge Program to study the innovative business model for open access journal publishing known as “Subscribe to Open.” MUSE Open: S2O will assess how Subscribe to Open (S2O) might be coordinated across multiple journals and publishers—the potential pilot could transform access to humanities and social sciences journals.

Project MUSE launches a multimodal digital essay from the University of Virginia Press’ Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary is now available open access on Project MUSE. The MUSE version of the essay mirrors the content from the born-digital product’s primary site, and is intended to provide an additional pathway to discovery, as well as spotlight the MUSE platform’s suitability for hosting robust and innovative digital humanities works.

Project MUSE is pleased to announce seven additional journal titles now available on our platform.

Project MUSE Serves as Host Platform for New Initiative

Central European University (CEU) Press, in partnership with COPIM, is pleased to announce that our Opening the Future initiative is now fully live, and member access to the programme’s curated backlist of books is available from Tuesday 19th January, through Project MUSE.

A selection of scholarship from Project MUSE publishers exploring the political and societal forces that built up to the violence of January 6th.

Four Project MUSE journals are recipients of awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), presented during the 2021 Modern Language Association (MLA) meeting earlier this month. 

New Additions, Title Status Changes

Project MUSE is pleased to announce four additional titles that will be joining its Premium Collection of journals for 2021. Acta Koreana, Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History, Urban History Review, and The Yale Review join two previously-announced titles - The French Review and T’ang Studies - bringing the total number of new additions to the Premium Collection to six journals.

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