Project MUSE, a leading platform of humanities and social sciences scholarship from non-profit publishers, has announced the MUSE Subscribe to Open (S2O) Program, launching in 2025. This collaborative effort marks an important step towards reshaping the landscape of equitable participation and access to a wide range of current interdisciplinary content.
As of January 2024, the number of participating publishers has reached 24 publishers representing 88 journals and is still growing. Project MUSE will be one of the largest S2O programs in non-profit humanities and social sciences scholarly publishing.
The following publishers have committed to participate in Subscribe to Open on MUSE: Advertising Educational Foundation; Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas; Center of Latin American Studies, University of Kansas; The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press; Dictionary Society of North America; Early Theatre; International Vladimir Nabokov Society and Davidson College; Johns Hopkins University Press; Liverpool University Press; The Ohio State University Press; Philosophy Documentation Center; Purdue University Press; The Southwest Center, University of Arizona; UCLA, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies; University of Hawai'i Press; University of Illinois Press; University of Minnesota Press; University of Missouri; University of Nebraska Press; The University of North Carolina Press; University of Pennsylvania Press; University of Texas Press; The University of Tulsa; and University of Wisconsin Press.
Subscribe to Open (S2O) is a sustainable, equitable, and inclusive publishing model that opens access to the current year’s content of participating journals contingent on reaching a minimum revenue threshold.
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