About Project Muse

Project MUSE is managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the participating publishers and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at the Johns Hopkins University, to offer the full text of JHUP scholarly journals via the web. In 1999, muse expended to become a unique partnership of not-for-profit publisher, increasing its ability to offer essential periodicals in the humanities, the art and the social science. Project MUSE has been hailed for its library-friendly licensing and usage policies, easy online navigation, responsible pricing, and generous discount plans for consortia and various categories of libraries.

The Johns Hopkins University Press is one of the country’s oldest and largest university presses, publishing more than 200 books each year and over 50 scholarly journals. By long tradition the Press has published with distinction in such disciplines as literary studies, classics, history, economics, political science, and the history of science and medicine. Its innovative publishing program embraces both traditional and newer modes of scholarly communication.

The Press continues to uphold the ideal set forth by Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of the Johns Hopkins University, upon his inauguration of the Press in 1878: “It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.”