1. Results What do the icons mean?
 You can limit your results by selecting  Next to the journal or book titles, there
various options in the boxes on the right. are colored circles. U. Grant Miller
 You can limit by content type, access,  These circles indicate the level of access Library
research area, author, and language. you have through Project Muse as a W&J
 Just click on a box and the database will student.
automatically refresh your results to
reflect your selection.
Help Guide
 If the article you want is restricted, click
on the [Find using OpenURL] link.
Project Muse
Project Muse is a liberal
arts database of indexed
and peer-reviewed journals
in the arts, humanities, and
social sciences. Project
 This will open a W&J library page that will Muse provides access to
show whether or not we have the article 340 full-text journals from
in another database.
 If we do have it, you can click on the 1995 to present.
article or journal link to go directly to the
article or journal in another database.
 If we don’t have it, you can use
Interlibrary Loan to request it from
another library.
 From the library’s website, go to User Washington & Jefferson College
Services > Interlibrary Loan > article
request form.

2. How to Use Project Muse  In the Publishers tab, click on a publisher’s  To search, type your keywords or search
name to see a list of books or journals from terms into the field at the top of the page.
 There are both browse features and search that publisher stored in Project Muse.  You can choose to search within both
features to navigate through this database. books and journals, just books, or just
 You can browse by Research Areas, Titles, journals.
Publishers, Books, and Journals.
 Use the browse features to find a research
topic for a paper or to narrow your topic
down.
 Click on the orange “BROWSE” button at
the top of the page.
 The search field opens a drop-down with
suggestions of topics based on your
search terms.
 In the Books tab, you can see an
 This Google-style auto generator can help
alphabetical list of all books in the
you find other keywords or might spark
database.
new ideas for your research.
 In the Research Areas tab, click on a broad
topic to view articles on that subject.
Results
 In the Journals tab, you can see an
 After clicking the search button, you will
alphabetical list of all journals in the
see a list of items relevant to your search
database.
 In the Titles tab, you can browse books terms.
and journals alphabetically by title by  Each result shows the title, author,
clicking on a letter in the blue bar. publication information, and links to the full
text in HTML or PDF form if available.
 Clicking on the title in the results opens
the HTML format of the article.