Aarhus University Press Joins Project MUSE

By Project MUSE

Aarhus University Press has joined Project MUSE with the goal of making available to academic libraries their full list of highly regarded books in archaeology, anthropology, arts, and many other humanities and social sciences disciplines. Both front and backlist titles from Aarhus University Press will be available as part of Project MUSE's ebook collections beginning in January 2021.

"We are thrilled to welcome Aarhus University Press to Project MUSE," says Wendy Queen, Director of Project MUSE. "With their stellar reputation in the international academic community and our shared mission to disseminate knowledge worldwide, Project MUSE is a perfect partner to help bring their outstanding academic publications to a broad global audience of scholars."

When they launch on the platform in January 2021, Aarhus University Press books will be discoverable on Project MUSE from their publisher landing page. 

Aarhus University Press is the largest university publishing house in the Nordic region, releasing 100 titles each year and with a backlist of 2000 titles, 400 of which are in English. Publication areas include anthropology, archaeology, classics, education, fine arts, history, literary studies, and science. They collaborate extensively with scholarly societies, cultural institutions, open universities, schools, and media houses for maximum outreach to academic communities around the world. Aarhus University Press is a member of the Association of University Presses (AUPresses).

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Since 1995, the MUSE Journal Collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. MUSE is the 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. Books on Project MUSE offers access to more than 67,000 books from over 100 presses, fully integrated with MUSE's scholarly journal content for browsing and discovery.