The journals are made available through Project Muse, which was launched in 1995 with grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, is supported by the Milton S. Eisenhower Library and the press at Johns Hopkins University. Journals available electronically through Project Muse include the American Journal of Philology , Eighteenth Century Studies , the Journal of the History of Ideas , Modern Fiction Studies , World Politics , and the Yale Journal of Criticism . Although most of the journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press are also available in print in the University of Chicago Library, online access allows far greater availability, more powerful searching, and allows browsing of the table of contents of individual issues.
Online issues are also available earlier than are the print issues.
A few titles for which the Library does not have print subscriptions, including Configurations , Imagine , Philosophy , Psychiatry , and Psychology , and Theatre Topics , are now available only electronically. Titles to be added in 1998 include the Emily Dickinson Journal and the Journal of Asian American Studies . Currently, most of the backfiles available online date back to 1995. Backfiles of earlier issues may be added in the future. Project Muse uses PLWeb Turbo, full-text retrieval software that allows searching of either a single journal, all journals or selected titles by full text, author, or title and to restrict by date of publication.