Supporting Digital Scholarship

“The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has been an essential and unfailing partner to Project MUSE since the beginning. In fact, since before the beginning! Mellon’s founding grant to Johns Hopkins in 1994, along with NEH support, made it possible for MUSE to develop the online delivery prototype and the business model that launched our remarkable 25-year run.

“Among the direct results of Mellon’s visionary support of Project MUSE, one financial impact stands out. Since 1995, MUSE has returned more than $250 million in royalties to our participating publishers, enabling them in turn to support their own scholarly missions.

“Many of us deeply admire the eloquence and altruism that informs Mellon’s stated mission ‘to strengthen, promote, and defend the centrality of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse, fair, and democratic societies.’ We take pride in knowing that Mellon’s support of MUSE has not only strengthened the humanities but benefited so many of the ‘exemplary and inspiring institutions of higher education and culture’ who became MUSE’s publishing and library partners.

“We sincerely thank Patricia Hswe, the Foundation’s current program officer for scholarly communications, along with so many current and former Mellon colleagues. Their support of MUSE and our publishing and library partners has been absolutely inspiring and completely transformative.

“We will always be grateful.”

—Wendy Queen, director of Project MUSE