About

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Disciplines covered include literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. MUSE is the trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating.

How to begin

Go to http://www.car.chula.ac.th/carweb4/curef

Select Browse databases by Subject: General and Interdisciplinary Sciences.

Then click on “Project MUSE” from the list to access the database.

Browse

The database has provided “Browse” menu on the top of a webpage, which includes sub-menus.

1. Research Areas – This sub-menu is a default. It will be shown automatically at anytime users click on “Browse” menu.

All research areas are devided to Area and Ethnic Studies / Art and Architecture / Creative Writing / Education / Film, Theater and Performing Arts / History / Language and Linguistics / Library Science and Publishing / Literature / Medicine and Health / Music / Philosophy / Religion / Science, Technology, and Mathematics / Social Sciences / Studies by Time Period / Women's Studies, Gender, and Sexuality

Users can click on your focused area to view list of all items.

If users want to see other sub-menu for browsing, you can point your mouse to a “Browse” menu without pressing. Then all sub-menus will be displayed in hidden-slide as the following.

2. Titles – This sub-menu allows users to browse all publications both journal and book by alphabetical.

Titles list will be shown with cover images. Entering any item, users will see a detail page of this publication, its own archives, and search within this publication option as picture below.

3. Publishers – This sub-menu shows a completed list of publishers which share content in the database. Entering any publisher, users will see its own publications.

4. Books – This sub-menu allows users to browse books by alphabetical. The list will show all books in this database. Unauthorized CU community can't view full text of this publication type.

5. Journals – This sub-menu allows users to browse journals by alphabetical. The list will show all books in this database. Entering any item in the list, users will see detail page and its own archives, and authorized CU community can view full text of this publication type freely.

Search

The database has provided “Search” options to support users found their focused items rapidly.

1. Quick search – A search box on the top of a webpage is available for searching from keyword in Content / Title name / Author name / Publisher name.

2. Advanced search – This option is above the Quick search search box. Click to access Advanced search page as the following picture.

Many search fields are available in Advanced search, and users can choose all / any / none match with the search term. Moreover users can also refine by Access, Content Type, Research Area, Author, Publisher, Language, Year at the time searching.

Search Results

Results from searching will be displayed as the following picture.

1. Set displayed Items per page

2. Set Sort by Relevance, Newest first, or Oldest first.

3. Refine results by Access, Content Type, Research Area, Author, Publisher, Language, and Year.

4. Full text PDF download tab and/or Full text HTML tab will be shown here (if available). And users can click on the title of any item to access its detail page.

Export

Users can export citation by:

1. When users found out item in focus, you can look into its detail page and then select “Save Citation” in the right column.

Another way, users can select “Save All Citations” an orange button above the list of results to save all of results at once.

2. Click to see a list of your “saved citations” on the top right of a webpage. Users have 5 options to “Export Saved Citations”, so choose one way that's available to you. [CU community can install EndNote program freely, please contact RSS, Office of Academic Resources via e-mail rss@car.chula.ac.th]