We are proud to announce that we have participated in a new open access model through Project MUSE for two of our journals: Journal of Aesthetic Education and Music and the Moving Image.
Project MUSE’s “Subscribe to Open” (S2O) is an equitable open access model for scholarly journals that enables subscription journals to open access to their current content without Article Processing Charges (APCs).
Essentially, MUSE sets a “sustainability threshold,” a method to ensure that the platform maintains current subscribers as a way to fund the program. When MUSE hits that threshold, participating journals become open access for the current year’s content. Any year that meets the threshold will remain open access in subsequent years. Therefore, the participating journals can make their research accessible to the general public while still gaining enough revenue to continue publishing sustainably. The S2O model is a new and important approach to open access that supports disciplines that have less access to traditional funding sources, and we are honored to have two University of Illinois Press journals participating in the first year of Project MUSE’s program.
Already in 2025, Project MUSE has met the sustainability threshold! Thus, as this year’s issues come out and anytime in the future, you will be able to access Journal of Aesthetic Education Volume 59 and Music and the Moving Image Volume 18 for free online through Project MUSE. See below for more information on these journals.
SUBSCRIBE
Importantly, the full catalog of back content is still only available to the journals’ online subscribers, whether they have an individual subscription, access through an institutional direct subscription, or through an institutional Project MUSE subscription. So, while this program is great for making the scholarship more accessible, individual and institutional subscriptions are still a vital part of ensuring full access to all current and past content.
If you’re not currently a subscriber:
Or, if you’re interested in either (or both!) of these journals, or any 40+ others published by University of Illinois Press, you can recommend them to your local or institutional library through our Library Request Form.
SUBMIT
Want the potential for your own research to be open access without having to pay for an article processing charge? While there’s no guarantee that MUSE’s S2O program will meet its sustainability threshold in the year your work publishes, the first year’s success provides a positive outlook.
JOURNAL OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION
Journal of Aesthetic Education is a highly respected interdisciplinary journal that focuses on clarifying the issues of aesthetic education understood in its most extensive meaning. The Journal thus welcomes articles on philosophical aesthetics and education devoted to problem areas in education critical to arts and humanities at all institutional levels, to an understanding of the aesthetic import of the new communications media and environmental aesthetics, and to an understanding of the aesthetic character of humanistic disciplines. The Journal, published quarterly, is a valuable resource not only to educators, but also to philosophers, art critics and art historians.
The first issue of 2025 is available now open access, and the other three will be available open access upon publication throughout the year.
Volume 59, Number 1, Spring 2025:
- “Tree Meet Fence: Dewey, Dorchester Projects, and the Philosophy of Socially Engaged Art” by Paul C. Taylor
- “Experience and Interpretation: A Question for Dewey’s Aesthetics” by Richard Shusterman
- “Reconsidering Epistemological Limits: Damien Hirst and the Unbelievable Hauntograph” by Sara A. Rich
- “Sprezzatura: The Performer’s Secrets and the Aesthetics of Social Behavior” by Eric Mactaggart
- “Construction of Social Aesthetic Education Digital Art Museum in the Postepidemic Era” by Zhang Nanling
- “Haptic Aesthetic Experiences of Drawing” by Ann-Mari Edström
- “Education for a Flourishing Life” by Boyd White
MUSIC AND THE MOVING IMAGE
The purpose of Music and the Moving Image is to explore the relationship between music and the entire universe of moving images (film, television, music videos, computer games, performance art, and web-based media) through articles, reviews and interviews. It is published three times a year.
The Spring 2025 issue is first of three open access issues to appear on Project MUSE, and as the rest of the 2025 issues publish, they will be open access as well. You can find Music and the Moving Image on Project MUSE here.
Volume 18, Issue 1, Spring 2025:
- “Formal Integration and Star-Song Attractions in the Cavalcade Musical: A Historical and Digital Analysis of MGM’s An American in Paris (1951)” by Elsa Marshall
- “‘Do You Hear the People Sing?’: Live Singing in Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables” by Daniele Peraro
- “Prima Donna in the Jungle: Opera, Class, and Race in RKO Pictures’ Hitting a New High (1937)” by Gina Bombola
