
The MIT Press Open Access Fund
The MIT Press Open Access Fund is an endowment to support the Press’s groundbreaking efforts to publish open access books and journals and to develop tools, models, and resources that make scholarship more accessible to researchers and other readers around the world.
This endowment was established in 2023 with an initial gift of $10 million from Arcadia, $5 million of which is designated as a “challenge” gift to incentivize other funders by matching their support of MIT’s open publishing activities.
Funding the future of open access
Your gift to the MIT Press Open Access Fund helps the Press sustain a variety of open access funding models; publish hundreds of scholarly books and journal articles openly each year; and develop the tools, models, and resources that make scholarship more accessible to researchers and other readers around the world.
“The new endowment makes it possible for the MIT Press to build on and sustain its influential publishing programs,” says Amy Brand, Director and Publisher of the MIT Press. “With this enduring support for open books and journals, we can use our power as an academic publisher to expand public understanding of scholarship and science and to democratize participation in research.”
MIT Provost Cynthia Barnhart, praises the Press's open access commitment, saying, “the Press’s initiatives help transform scholarly publishing for the better and align with MIT’s broader institutional support for open access to knowledge.”
Our open access successes
Are you interested in directing a major gift to an area of interest, or making a planned gift?
Contact MIT Press Director and Publisher Amy Brand, at amybrand@mit.edu.