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Project MUSE Press Release Template

Let students and faculty know that Project MUSE is available at your institution! Use this press release in your library newsletter, Website, or campus newspaper.

The press release includes details about MUSE and how it can be valuable to users. Adapt the information provided to fit your particular institution's needs. View the press release below in HTML format, or click on the link to open it in Microsoft Word.
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[College Letterhead] Media Contact:
[Project MUSE Administrator]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Project MUSE®, Online Scholarly Journals,
Now Available on Campus

Easy access to arts, humanities, and social sciences journals

City (Date) Project MUSE®, an online collection of over 350 scholarly journals from over 60 publishers, is available at [COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY/ETC.]. Students and faculty now have access 24 hours a day to one of the most important academic resources in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In addition, Project MUSE provides timely access by releasing journal issues online before libraries receive them in print.

Project MUSE (http://muse.jhu.edu) is accessible [FROM ANY COMPUTER ON CAMPUS, EVEN IN YOUR HOME, OR OTHER ACCESS OPTIONS DECIDED BY THE INSTITUTION] and is a valuable addition to the library's resources, offering users the following features:

  • Find full-text articles, offered in HTML and PDF formats, in a variety of subject areas including economics, education, film, history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, women's studies, and many more.


  • Sign up for "Journal Alerts" to be notified by e-mail when new issues come out in your favorite journals. Follow links in the e-mail right to the tables of contents of new issues.


  • View the complete content of journals, including full-text articles, reviews (books, performance, art, music, etc.), fiction and poetry, editorial or submission information, plus enlargeable illustrations and photographs.


  • Search for articles the way you want to:
    • Use either a simple "Basic" screen or "Advanced" screen with multiple options.
    • Search the whole database or within selected subject areas, date ranges, or specific journals.
    • Search the full text of articles or just in specific fields such as subject, author, or title.

  • Manage your search results in several ways:
    • E-mail search results to yourself or to others.
    • Download or print in text-only (or "printer-friendly") format.
    • Export to citation management software such as EndNote and RefWorks.

  • View your Search History to return to your previous searches, and use the "modify" and "refine" functions to change your search terms and limit options.


  • Use the subject headings in the tables of contents and in the search results to help you quickly identify an article's topic, or to give you ideas for additional search terms.


  • Navigate within the full-text articles using the links to footnotes, author biographies, and illustrations.

Project MUSE is an ideal research tool, providing quick and easy access to scholarly, full-text articles in many subject areas. Contact [CAMPUS LIBRARY/ LIBRARIAN CONTACT INFORMATION] for more information.
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