疫情期间，多家数据库公司和出版社等，展开了多种免费活动（具体可参考之前发布的帖子《防疫期间免费开放数据库资源合集》）。近期，又有多家出版社联合推出免费开放电子书活动（官方网址），详情如下：
In response to the challenges created by the global public health crisis of COVID-19, Project MUSE is pleased to support its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on our platform. With many higher education institutions moving into an exclusively online learning environment for the foreseeable future, we hope that easy access to vetted research in the humanities and social sciences, from a variety of distinguished university presses, societies, and related not-for-profit publishers, will help to support teaching, learning, and knowledge discovery for users worldwide.
Read the full announcement about free access to MUSE content. Please contact MUSE Customer Support with any questions.
Making Free Content Discoverable
To assist libraries with making the temporarily-free books and journals easily discoverable by users, we have created a collection and associated metadata files for the content, and shared this information with the major discovery system knowledge bases. The files are by resource type (book / journal), and will be continuously updated as additional content is made available. Download MARC records, KBART files, or title lists using the links below, or look for these file names to activate them in your preferred discovery system. The end date for free access to content varies by publisher; please see the publisher list below for details.
KBART Files
Project MUSE Free Books (txt format)
Project Muse Free Journals (txt format)
MARC Files
Project MUSE Free Books (mrc format)
Project MUSE Free Journals (mrc format)
Title List
Project MUSE Free Books (xlsx format)
Project MUSE Free Journals (xlsx format)
Participating Publishers
The following publishers have chosen to temporarily make content freely available on Project MUSE. Each publisher designates the specific content and for how long it will be freely available on MUSE. We will update this list on a daily basis.
- Advertising Educational Foundation (all journals, through 1 June 2020)
- African Books Collective (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Arizona Historical Society (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Association for Scottish Literary Studies (all books, through 30 June 2020; all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Association Le Mouvement Social (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Association of Canadian Archivists (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Ateneo de Manila University (all journals, through 31 May 2020)
- Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.) (selected issues, 30 June 2020)
- Central European University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press (all books, through 30 June 2020; all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Cornell University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Duke University Press (selected journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Early Theatre (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- The Filson Historical Society and Cincinnati Museum Center (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Fordham University Press (selected books, through 30 June 2020; selected issues, 30 June 2020)
- Georgia State University, Department of English (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Harvard-Yenching Institute (selected journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Hong Kong University Press, HKU (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Institut national d’études démographiques (selected issues, 30 June 2020)
- International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- International Musicological Society (selected journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Johns Hopkins University Press (all books, through 31 May 2020; all journals, through 31 May 2020)
- Kenyon Review (all journals, through 31 March 2020)
- La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Liturgical Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Manchester University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- The MIT Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Massachusetts Review, Inc. (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Music Library Association (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- National Bureau of Asian Research (selected books, through 30 June 2020; selected issues, 30 June 2020)
- National Trust for Historic Preservation (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- The New Chaucer Society (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- The Ohio State University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020; all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Penn State University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020; all journals, through 31 May 2020)
- Philosophy Documentation Center (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Presses de l’Université Laval (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Princeton University Press (selected books, through 30 June 2020)
- Les publications Histoire sociale / Social History Inc. (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Russell Sage Foundation (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- SAR Press (selected books, through 30 June 2020)
- The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Sophia University (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- The Southern Historical Association (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Temple University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Texas State Historical Association (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- Texas Tech University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Arizona Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- University of California Press (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Central Missouri, Department of English and Philosophy (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Georgia Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Maryland (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Missouri Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Nebraska Press (all books, through 31 May 2020; all journals, through 31 May 2020)
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Romance Studies (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- The University of North Carolina Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Pennsylvania Press (all books, through 30 June 2020; all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- University of South Carolina Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- The University of Tennessee Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- University of the West Indies Press (all journals, through 30 April 2020)
- The University of Tulsa (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Virginia (all journals, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Virginia Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- University of Wisconsin Press (selected journals, through 31 May 2020)
- University Press of Colorado (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Utah State University Press (all books, through 30 June 2020)
- Vanderbilt University Press (selected books, through 31 May 2020)
- Wayne State University Press (all books, through 31 May 2020; all journals, through 31 May 2020)
Publishers Provide Scholarly Content Free on Project MUSE During COVID-19 Crisis
In response to the challenges created by the global public health crisis of COVID-19, Project MUSE is pleased to support its participating publishers in making scholarly content temporarily available for free on our platform. With many higher education institutions moving into an exclusively online learning environment for the foreseeable future, we hope that easy access to vetted research in the humanities and social sciences, from a variety of distinguished university presses, societies, and related not-for-profit publishers, will help to support teaching, learning, and knowledge discovery for users worldwide.
Among the publishers currently opting to make content free on Project MUSE are Johns Hopkins University Press (all books and journals), Ohio State University Press (all books and journals), University of Nebraska Press (all books and journals), University of North Carolina Press (all books), Temple University Press (all books), and Vanderbilt University Press (selected books). We expect to announce additional participants and will continually update the list of publishers offering free access to content.
“These are turbulent and challenging times. Above all, we are committed to ensuring that students and researchers around the world can access information from our books and journals easily,” said Donna Shear, Director, University of Nebraska Press. “Enabling this through making our content on Project MUSE open for the next few months is one important way to do that.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic presents an unprecedented challenge to the global scholarly ecosystem and its institutions. This move is our way of helping to ease the burden on students and instructors so that they can continue research and coursework as smoothly as possible, as well as to honor the work of our authors in making their research available when the world needs nuanced and rigorous scholarship the most,” said Tony Sanfilippo, Director, Ohio State University Press Director.
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. There are over 2,000 open access books and a small number of fully OA journals on the MUSE platform.
“Serving the needs of libraries, publishers, and scholars has been core to the MUSE mission since day one,” said Wendy Queen, Director, Project MUSE. “The global COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in enormous and rapid changes to the lives of all our constituents, with the need to adapt daily to new methods of communicating and working. MUSE is grateful for the opportunity to support our community through this crisis, as a hub to connect users and the content they need, wherever they can.”
“This is an extraordinary moment. Pedagogy and research are sprinting swiftly to online platforms, while at the same time, we’re devolving into an increasingly unstable economic environment,” said John Sherer, Director, University of North Carolina Press. “Nevertheless, we at UNC Press are compelled to remove the paywalls from the scholarship that we have in platforms like Project MUSE. My hope is that by making it easy and inexpensive to utilize these resources now, libraries, students, teachers, and administrators will realize the enormous value in these kinds of collections. And, when the current crisis has passed, they will dedicate the resources needed to support them.”
Project MUSE has a robust continuity plan in place and does not anticipate any significant disruption to our service as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. MUSE staff are available as we transition to a remote work environment, and we encourage communicating any concerns or questions to Customer Support.