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Project MUSE for Publishers

At Project MUSE, we make high-quality scholarship from nonprofit publishers easily accessible to institutions and the researchers they serve. In the ever-changing digital landscape, we provide dedicated support and consultation to help you meet industry standards and market your content. Our easy-to-use platform is enhanced for ultimate discoverability, so you can expand your reach and realize your goals. 

The MUSE platform aggregates high-quality, peer-reviewed journals and books from university presses and nonprofit publishers. We help our partners navigate the ever-changing digital landscape and reach a worldwide audience, because we believe that knowledge is essential to enriching lives and advancing discoveries. 

By joining Project MUSE, you can elevate your journals or books and expand your reach to libraries and scholars worldwide, with a platform enhanced for discoverability. 

Benefits for Journal Publishers

  • Apply to our prestigious Collections program and, if accepted, earn generous royalties. 
  • Participate in ourSubscribe to Open (S2O) program and publish current issues open access while still earning MUSE revenue. 
  • Enroll in ourHosted program and receive all the benefits of Project MUSE for a low annual fee. 
  • Get support navigating the digital landscape and standards from our experience publisher relations, production, technology, and metatdata teams. 
  • Make business operations easier by entrusting us to handle electronic institutional subscriptions for journals participating in the Hosted program. 

Benefits for Book Publishers

  • Sell your books via MUSE’s various business models to provide libraries books that meet their subject needs and budgets. 
  • Get support navigating the digital landscape and standards from our experienced production, technology, and metadata teams.

Journal Publishers

What Project MUSE Can Do For Your Journal

Be part of a trusted brand. We take care of the production, design, and technical decisions for you so you can focus on your content and marketing.

Project MUSE Journal Collections

Each year, Project MUSE adds a select few journals to its signature Journal Collections, which MUSE sells to institutions and libraries worldwide.


Apply to put your journal on MUSE

Applications to join Project MUSE are accepted year-round, and selections are made in the Spring for the following calendar year.


Book Publishers

Project MUSE Open Access Books Program

Project MUSE’s Open Access Books Program, launching in summer 2018, offers publishers the ability to publish open access books on the MUSE platform.

Apply to put your book on MUSE

Project MUSE welcomes inquiries from non-profit, scholarly book publishers.

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Publishers

Project MUSE is a trusted provider of authoritative humanities and social science books and journals from more than 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. Click on a publisher name below to view full text from journals and books by this publisher in MUSE.

MUSE Presentations

2018 - 2021

Project MUSE recently hosted its annual publishers meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. This year we took the opportunity to welcome publishers to your own neighborhood, holding the meeting at the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus in the historic Charles Village neighborhood.