PROJECT MUSE JOURNAL PUBLISHERS OFFER FREE ACCESS FOR LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
(Baltimore, MD) As part of our mission to promote the broad dissemination of essential
humanities and social science scholarship, and in support of equity in access to scholarly resources, Project MUSE and its participating publishers are pleased to announce a program to provide free access to selected journal titles in many low-income countries.
More than 250 journals from nearly 30 publishers have committed to the program and are currently providing free access to individuals in 19 countries,
primarily in Africa. The free access program is in collaboration with Google Scholar, which is indexing the free journal content to ensure it is widely discoverable, while MUSE provides the free access to any user connecting via an IP address from the qualifying
countries. All available volumes and issues from the participating journal titles may be accessed for free.
“This program allows Project MUSE to provide valuable scholarly journal content to countries that are among the hardest to reach,” said Elizabeth
Brown, Publisher Relations Manager at Project MUSE. “We thank our publishers for their enthusiastic participation!”
Project MUSE and the participating publishers are delighted to offer this free access to researchers and readers in these frequently underserved
communities, as one part of our overall commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Please visit the MUSE web site for
a list of the participating journal titles, along with the list of countries with free access. Project MUSE also hosts more than 5,000 fully open access books, and several open access journals; these are freely available
to everyone, worldwide. For questions about the free access program, please contact
mu...@jh.edu
About Project MUSE
Project
MUSE has offered libraries affordable access to essential humanities and social science research for more than 25 years, as an integral part of the scholarly communications ecosystem and platform of choice for respected not-for-profit publishers.
Currently, Project MUSE is the trusted and reliable source for over 800 journals and over 85,000 books, from more than 200 of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. MUSE also hosts thousands of open access books and several open access
journal titles, freely available to anyone worldwide.
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