Project muse: A partnership of interset

Abstract

In the first “Electronic Journal Forum” column, the purpose of the column was stated as “to promote awareness of the evolution of scholarly publishing on the network, and of Libra-related issues surrounding this development.“’ In keeping with this purpose, in the past, columns have focused on the “electronic journal,” defined as one available onZy in electronic format and distributed over the Internet usually without charge, as opposed to the “online journal” which maintains an electronic existence parallel to a print counterpart and tends to be commercially produced.* The online journal typically is made available through third party database services which meter access according to time online and/or by pay-per-view charges. In this column, a hybrid of these two approaches, Project Muse, will be discussed.