In response to the challenges created by the global public health crisis of COVID-19, Project MUSE is pleased to support its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on our platform. With many higher education institutions moving into an exclusively online learning environment for the foreseeable future, we hope that easy access to vetted research in the humanities and social sciences, from a variety of distinguished university presses, societies, and related not-for-profit publishers, will help to support teaching, learning, and knowledge discovery for users worldwide.
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Making Free Content Discoverable
To assist libraries with making the temporarily-free books and journals easily discoverable by users, we have created a collection and associated metadata files for the content, and shared this information with the major discovery system knowledge bases. The files are by resource type (book / journal), and will be continuously updated as additional content is made available. Download MARC records, KBART files, or title lists using the links below, or look for these file names to activate them in your preferred discovery system. The end date for free access to content varies by publisher; please see the publisher list below for details.
KBART Files
Project MUSE Free Books (txt format)
Project Muse Free Journals (txt format)
MARC Files
Project MUSE Free Books (mrc format)
Project MUSE Free Journals (mrc format)
Title List
Project MUSE Free Books (xlsx format)
Project MUSE Free Journals (xlsx format)
Participating Publishers
The following publishers have chosen to temporarily make content freely available on Project MUSE. Each publisher designates the specific content and for how long it will be freely available on MUSE. We will update this list on a daily basis.
- Advertising Educational Foundation (all journals, through 1 June 2020)
- African Books Collective (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Arizona Historical Society (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Association for Scottish Literary Studies (all books, through 30 June 2020; all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Association Le Mouvement Social (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Association of Canadian Archivists (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Ateneo de Manila University (all journals, through 31 May 2020)
- Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.) (selected issues, 30 June 2020)
- Central European University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press (all books, through 30 June 2020; all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Cornell University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Duke University Press (selected journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Early Theatre (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- The Filson Historical Society and Cincinnati Museum Center (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Fordham University Press (selected books, through 30 June 2020; selected issues, 30 June 2020)
- Friends Historical Association (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Georgia State University, Department of English (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Harvard-Yenching Institute (selected journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Hong Kong University Press, HKU (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Institut national d’études démographiques (selected issues, 30 June 2020)
- International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- International Musicological Society (selected journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Johns Hopkins University Press (all books, through 31 May 2020; all journals, through 31 May 2020)
- Kentucky Historical Society (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Kenyon Review (all journals, through 31 March 2020)
- La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Liturgical Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Manchester University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- The MIT Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Massachusetts Review, Inc. (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Music Library Association (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- National Bureau of Asian Research (selected books, through 30 June 2020; selected issues, 30 June 2020)
- National Trust for Historic Preservation (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- The New Chaucer Society (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- The Ohio State University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020; all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Penn State University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020; all journals, through 31 May 2020)
- Philosophy Documentation Center (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Presses de l’Université Laval (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Princeton University Press (selected books, through 30 June 2020)
- Les publications Histoire sociale / Social History Inc. (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Russell Sage Foundation (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- SAR Press (selected books, through 30 June 2020)
- The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Sophia University (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- The Southern Historical Association (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Temple University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Texas State Historical Association (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Texas Tech University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Arizona Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- University of California Press (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Central Missouri, Department of English and Philosophy (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Georgia Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Illinois Press (selected journals, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Maryland (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Missouri Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Nebraska Press (all books, through 31 May 2020; all journals, through 31 May 2020)
- University of New Brunswick, Department of History (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Romance Studies (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- The University of North Carolina Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Pennsylvania Press (all books, through 30 June 2020; all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- University of South Carolina Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- The University of Tennessee Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- University of the West Indies Press (all journals, through 30 April 2020)
- The University of Tulsa (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Virginia (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Virginia Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Wisconsin Press (selected journals, through 31 May 2020)
- University Press of Colorado (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Utah State University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Vanderbilt University Press (selected books, through 31 May 2020)
- Wayne State University Press (all books, through 31 May 2020; all journals, through 31 May 2020)
Content that is freely available on the Project MUSE platform during the COVID-19 crisis will display a distinctive “Free” icon, different from the “OA” icon used for fully open access content on MUSE, or the familiar green checkmark that users associate with content held by their library. MUSE search results, by default, include any content to which a user has access, so will offer the researcher any relevant free, OA, or entitled articles and books. There are over 2,000 open access books and a small number of fully OA journals on the MUSE platform.