Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Where is Project MUSE?

As you know, all state funded institutions in California have been suffering by budget cuts. While the Library believes you should have as many resources online as possible, we did not have the funds to renew this important database for the 2010. This means for the Spring semester full text articles for Project MUSE are not available. As Project MUSE was a unique subscription as we had what was called "perpetual access," once the DVD-ROMs are available around June, we will have copies of all articles up to 2009 from our past database subscription in that format (a librarian would then retrieve an article for you). Unfortunately, we will not receive these DVD-ROMs until likely June.

If your instructor asks you to use Project MUSE, search in one of our other many current database subscriptions instead. They are available at: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/dblist.html

EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite has articles similar to what you would find in Project MUSE and for literary criticism, use Literature Resource Center.

If you still need to use Project MUSE, the CSU East Bay Library currently subscribes to it. You will need to be on the CSU East Bay campus, itself, to use it, however.

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