Introduction to Project MUSE®

What is Project MUSE?
Project MUSE (http://muse.jhu.edu/) is an online collection of over 250 scholarly journal titles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences from 40 university and society presses. MUSE journals cover many different subject areas including literature, history, political science, economics, education, film, philosophy, religion, women’s studies, and many more.

• Project MUSE provides full-text articles, reviews (books, performance, art, music, etc.), fiction and poetry, and enlargeable illustrations and photographs. Most articles are offered in both HTML and PDF formats. MUSE also provides informational pages covering editorial and submission information for the journals.
• Use our search engine to find articles, or “browse” the online journals issue by issue using the complete table of contents with clickable article entries.
• Library of Congress Subject Headings are provided in the journal issue tables of contents and in the search result citations for articles (except reviews). Use these to quickly identify an article’s topic or to get ideas for alternate search terms.
• Faculty and students can use MUSE from any computer in the campus-wide network or off-campus via the library ’s remote access server.

Searching in MUSE MUSE has an easy-to-use search engine with convenient options: Use either a “Basic” screen with a single search box, or “Advanced” screen with multiple options. Search using keywords or use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) if desired. Search for terms in the full text of articles or in specific fields such as subject, author, or title. Search the whole database or use Advanced Search to limit within selected subject areas, date ranges, or specific journal titles. From the page listing your results, use the “Modify Search” link or the “Search Within Results” box to change or refine your search. Several search-result management functions are offered: E-mail search results to yourself or to others. Download or print in text-only (or “printer-friendly”) format. Export to citation management software such as EndNote and RefWorks.

The Search History page allows you to view your results from previous searches. Use the “Modify” function to make changes to a previous search.