The document provides instructions for using the Project Muse database. It explains that Project Muse allows limiting search results by various criteria and contains over 340 peer-reviewed journals from 1995 to present. It describes how to browse by research area, title, publisher, books or journals, or search by keywords. It also explains what the colored circles next to results indicate regarding access and how to request items not fully available.

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.