Library		A Newsletter of the Oberlin College Library
	Perspectives
	Number 13, September 1995

The Oberlin College Library is among the first institutions nationally to offer its academic community Internet access to the full text of certain scholarly journals. Johns Hopkins University's Project Muse is a path-breaking venture in providing journals electronically. Oberlin is a charter member of Project Muse, along with fifty-seven other liberal arts colleges, all members of the Oberlin Group library consortium.

Starting on August 21, the full text of recent issues of the following journal titles were made available through Project Muse via the Library's World-Wide Web site: Configurations, Modern Fiction Studies, Reviews in American History, English Literary History, and Modern Language Notes. Additional journals will be added approximately each month until all forty journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press are online. Issues will be published electronically a few weeks in advance of the printed version.

Oberlin's participation in Project Muse is made possible through an agreement between participating Oberlin Group libraries and Johns Hopkins University Press. Under the terms of this agreement the Library will subscribe to Project Muse journals at a fifty-percent reduction in the regular electronic subscription rates. The Library currently subscribes to twenty-seven of the forty titles that will eventually be part of Project Muse.

In developing Project Muse, Johns Hopkins University Press hopes to create electronic journals that are easy to use, reasonably priced, and more widely accessible within individual academic communities. The Project Muse database is updated and maintained on a server at Johns Hopkins.

Each of the Project Muse titles will be cataloged in OBIS, with a direct link from the catalog record to the Project Muse server. These direct links will provide seamless connections between searching the Library's online catalog to see if we have a given journal title, and viewing the text of the journal articles themselves. There will also be links to the Project Muse journals from the OBIS home page (from workstations within the library) and from the Oberlin College Library home page. To explore Project Muse, connect to the Oberlin College Library home page at http://www.oberlin.edu/~library/OCL_homepage.html, and click on "What's New," or simply click on the title of this article.

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