Archiving and Preservation of Project MUSE Journals

Project MUSE is committed to providing permanent maintenance and preservation of all the digital files in the MUSE database. No journal content published online in MUSE will be removed or made inaccessible to current, paid subscribers. All MUSE partner publishers are contractually bound to allow any journal content published in MUSE to remain permanently in the database, even if they should choose to discontinue their relationship with MUSE.

Project MUSE maintains both local back-up servers and a mirror server offsite, in Australia. Further, Project MUSE works with other providers to arrange storage of backup copies of all digital files at their sites to ensure future availability.

Libraries own the material from the MUSE journal collection(s) to which they subscribe. For details on the specific archiving rights of subscribing libraries, please see Section V. Archiving, of the Project MUSE Institutional Licensing Agreement.