Rutgers University Libraries: Indexes and Databases: Project Muse

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Description		Project Muse ® provides full-text access to more than 320 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities; social sciences; and mathematics. Fields covered include literature and criticism; history; the visual and performing arts; cultural studies; education; political science; gender studies; economics; and many others. The database allows keyword and Boolean searching across the full-text of all journals in the database, selected subsets of journal titles, or in just a single title. Tables of contents of articles and book reviews can be searched by author and title as well as by Library of Congress subject headings Full-text articles are provided in HTML format with linking among article bibliographies, citations, endnotes, author biographies, and illustrations.. The list of citations resulting from a search may be e-mailed or exported directly into a citation management program (either EndNote or Refworks). Includes a Journals Alert email alert service that sends notifications of new journal issues or new titles available in Project Muse.

Dates covered		Varies for each journal; the earliest date of inclusion is 1990.

Updating frequency		Weekly

Sources		Scholarly journals from various publishers.

Type of coverage		Indexing and full-text of articles

Print Counterpart or related resources		More than 300 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities; social sciences; and mathematics.

Provider		Producer or content provider: Various not-for-profit scholarly publishers, for list see http://muse.jhu.edu/about/publishers/index.html Vendor or electronic presentation provider: Johns Hopkins University Press

Help		The Help option is available from the search screen and on each subsequent search results screen, but not when displaying individual articles.

Last updated February 15, 2006