Project Muse
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| Project MUSE is a
collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and a number of not-for-profit scholarly
publishers. It offers the full text of nearly 250 journal titles in the arts, humanities,
social sciences, and more. |
| Project Muse can be searched by selecting the
it from the list of reference databases at http://www.uri.edu/library/
reference_databases/title.html. The first screen you will see when you access Project MUSE is the journal browse screen. If you already have a citation to a specific article, select the journal title from the alphabetical list, and see the end of this guide for further instructions. To search for an article by topic, click on the yellow Search tab at the top of the screen.
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On the Basic Search screen, you may enter your search terms in the blank, and combine terms using Boolean operators. Using the pull-down menu, you can specify where your search terms will appear, including article author, title, subject and journal. If you get too many results with the default search — “All Fields (w/text)” — you can to narrow your search by selecting “All Fields except text.” For help with Boolean operators or searching the database, click on the grey Help tab in the upper right corner. Clicking on a yellow and blue question mark icon next to a search option will give you further information about using that option. |
| The Advanced Search
screen allows you to combine terms and fields, and offers the option of limiting your
search by type, date, and journal. Click on the Advanced Search tab at the top
of the page to use this feature.
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| Your results will
appear once you click search. They will be presented in relevance order, with the
article containing the most references to your search terms first. To access the full
text of articles listed in Project MUSE, click on the View in PDF link after the
article title. Some articles may be quite long; to determine whether the article
might be useful before downloading it, compare the subjects to your search terms, and/or
click on Show Occurrences in Context.
If you would like to save, print, export, or email your search results, you can select all records by checking the Mark All / Clear All box, or select individual records by clicking in the box next to the specific citation. Click on the Save Marked Results button at the top of the page, and then the grey Email/Export Saved Results tab. The next page will allow you to choose how you would like to work with your search results. If you already have a citation to a specific article and a link has brought you to Project MUSE, select the title of the journal you're looking for from the Title List. Click on the title, and you will see the journal information screen. Confirm that Project MUSE contains the issue you want by reading the Journal Coverage information. If your issue is covered, use the Select an Issue pull-down menu on the right to select the issue you want. A list of articles in that issue, and links to the full text, will appear on the next page.
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