Project MUSE, a leading platform of humanities and social sciences scholarship from non-profit publishers, has initiated its Subscribe to Open (S2O) Program, launching in 2025.

This collaborative effort marks a giant stride towards reshaping the landscape of equitable participation and access to a wide range of current interdisciplinary content.

Libraries will simply renew their current collection subscriptions annually, and beginning in 2025, those subscriptions will support a portion of the
titles in the collection in making all their current year content open access. S2O does not require new investment from libraries – just continued support for a trusted, vital scholarly resource.

Have more questions? Check out our FAQ Page.

As of March 2024, the number of participating publishers has reached 27 publishers representing 89 journals and is still growing. Project MUSE will be one of the largest S2O programs in non-profit humanities and social sciences scholarly publishing.

"Supporting even one non-profit humanities journal in the transition to sustainable open access would be a success story, and we are in the fortunate position of providing the infrastructure for an equitable, scalable program which may open up access to a wealth of valuable interdisciplinary content across many titles and publishers,"

Wendy Queen, Director of Project MUSE.

The following publishers have committed to participate in Subscribe to Open on MUSE.

Please visit our website frequently for new additions to this list!

"We are thrilled so many MUSE publishers opted into the MUSE S2O Program. Their participation amplifies our shared vision of moving more and more humanities content to open access. Researchers around the world will be able to read current issues of participating journals and hopefully open doors to new insights and ideas,”

Kelley Squazzo, Director of Library & Publisher Partnerships.

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.

Throughout 2024, MUSE will be working closely with our library partners to ensure continuity of support for MUSE journal products. Please reach out to the MUSE Sales Team to discuss subscription options to support S2O.