As part of its mission to promote the broad dissemination of essential humanities and social science scholarship, and in support of equity in access to scholarly resources, Project MUSE and its participating publishers have announced a program to provide free access to selected journal titles in many low-income countries.
More than 250 journals from nearly 30 publishers have committed to the program and are currently providing free access to individuals in 19 countries, primarily in Africa. The free access program is in collaboration with Google Scholar, which is indexing the free journal content to ensure it is widely discoverable, while MUSE provides the free access to any user connecting via an IP address from the qualifying countries. All available volumes and issues from the participating journal titles may be accessed for free.
Project MUSE and the participating publishers are offering this free access to researchers and readers in these frequently underserved communities, as one part of their overall commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Interested parties may visit the MUSE web site for a list of the participating journal titles, along with the list of countries with free access. Project MUSE also hosts more than 5,000 fully open access books, and several open access journals; these are freely available to everyone, worldwide.
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