has gloss | eng: Project MUSE is an online database of current and back issues of peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals. It was founded in 1993 by Todd Kelley and Susan Lewis and is a project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. It had support from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2007 it provided 1200 subscribing libraries with access to 144,000 articles from 393 journals from 93 nonprofit publishers; the numbers rise every month. As of November, 2009, there were 158,450 articles from 427 journals by 106 publishers. Libraries pay on average $22 per year per title, compared to the the average $201 for a paper version. |