26 March 2020
Project MUSE, in partnership with the community of not-for-profit scholarly presses which provide journals and books on the MUSE platform, is offering significant amounts of that content for free. More than 50 publishers have chosen to temporarily make content freely available to assist with access for the many students, staff, and researchers now working remotely due to the global public health crisis of COVID-19.
A full list of participating publishers can be found on the MUSE website.
To assist libraries with making the temporarily-free books and journals easily discoverable by users, MUSE has created a collection and associated metadata files for the content, and shared this information with the major discovery system knowledge bases, who are incorporating it into their systems now. The files are by resource type (book/journal), and will be continuously updated as additional content is made available. MARC records, KBART files, or title lists can be downloaded from the web page, or accessed via the links below. The end date for free access to content varies by publisher; see the publisher list for details.
KBART Files (txt format)
MARC Records (mrc format)
Title Lists (xlsx format)
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.
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