Database Spotlight: Project MUSE provides full-text articles from over 380 peer-reviewed humanities and social science journals with user-friendly online access.
by Shannon McGregor
Project MUSE—a database accessible via the library's Find Articles page—provides full-text articles from over 60 publishers and 380 journals in the fields of humanities and the social sciences. In order to be considered for inclusion in Project Muse, a journal must be peer-reviewed and must be published by a not-for-profit press or scholarly society. Among the journals offered are Contemporary Literature, Human Rights Quarterly, Asian Perspectives, Africa Today, Children's Literature, Comparative Drama, Music & Letters, and a wide range of others, spanning subjects including culture, religion, literary criticism, philosophy, gender and sexuality, and social history.
One aspect of Project MUSE that will appeal to researchers is its stable archive: once content is added to to the database, it will always remain available there. Back issues remain electronically archived and are permanently accessible, as opposed to the here today, gone tomorrow nature of much of the Internet.
Access Project MUSE through Oesterle Library's Find Articles page, the library homepage, or via this direct link.
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