Inspec vs Project MUSE
Inspec
theiet.orgProject MUSE
muse.jhu.eduSide by side
| Figure | Inspec | Project MUSE |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | $174.58/mo |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 6 |
| Spec score · Academic Research Databases | 7.2 (#25) | 8.6 (#6) |
| Founded | 1967 | LinkedIn lists Project MUSE as founded in 1995. |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom | LinkedIn lists Baltimore, Maryland as Project MUSE headquarters and identifies its Johns Hopkins University Press campus address. |
| Purpose | Inspec is an online academic database with expert indexing for subject-specific and interdisciplinary research in engineering, physics and computer science. | Project MUSE provides scholarly books and journals in the humanities and social sciences from university presses and nonprofit scholarly publishers. |
| Support | The IET provides Inspec guides, platform user guides, and an Inspec Analytics user guide. | Customer support is available by email and contact form Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. |
Plans
Inspec
- Inspec Analytics PlusPriced on request
- Inspec ArchivePriced on request
- Inspec subscriptionPriced on request
Project MUSE
- MUSE Journal Collection trialFree
- Premium Journals Collection (school libraries)$2,095 a year
- 2027 PLUS+ Package$13,121.40 a year
- Individual articles and issuesPrice not published
- Institutional journal collectionsPriced on request
- MUSE Journal Collection subscriptionPrice not published
In their own words
Project MUSE
Project MUSE provides scholarly books, journals, and other digital resources in the humanities and social sciences, from university presses and nonprofit scholarly publishers. Its catalog includes more than 800 journals and over 100,000 books from 400 publishers, along with over 6,000 open access books and more than 100 open access journals. Users can search across resources and filter by content type, language, journal, date, or publisher. Reading formats include HTML, PDF, and EPUB; EPUB files must be downloaded and opened in a compatible reader. MUSE describes subscribed and purchased content as DRM-free, with unlimited access, simultaneous use, downloading, and printing. Institutions can authenticate through IP address, Shibboleth, referring URLs, or a secure proxy. People without institutional access can use MyMUSE to save or email citations and receive content alerts, and may buy selected online articles and issues. Those individual purchases provide perpetual MyMUSE access, but sales are final. Pricing is on request, with a 45-day trial. A school-library Premium Journals Collection is listed at $2,095 a year.