Open Access

The Atlas of New Librarianship

By R. David Lankes

An essential guide to a librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning.

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Open Access

Holographic Quantum Matter

By Sean A. Hartnoll, Andrew Lucas and Subir Sachdev

A comprehensive overview of holographic methods in quantum matter, written by pioneers in the field.

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OPEN ACCESS

Journal of Design Science

JoDS explores timely, controversial topics in science, design, and society with a particular focus on the nuanced interactions among them.

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OPEN ACCESS

Network Neuroscience

Network Neuroscience features innovative scientific work that significantly advances our understanding of network organization and function in the brain across all scales, from molecules and neurons to circuits and systems.

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Open Access

Shadow Libraries

Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education

Edited by Joe Karaganis

How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks.

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Open access publishing

The MIT Press has been a leader in open access book publishing for two decades, beginning in 1995 with the publication of William Mitchell's City of Bits, which appeared simultaneously in print and in a dynamic, open web edition. We support a variety of open access funding models for select books, including monographs, trade books, and textbooks.

Journals

The MIT Press journals division also has a long-standing commitment to open access and makes hundreds of articles free on its website mitpressjournals.org.

All MIT Press subscription journals support author-paid open access (the “hybrid” model). Including three Gold OA journals launching this year, the Press publishes several completely open access journals: Computational Linguistics, Asian Development Review, Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science, Computational Psychiatry, and Network Neuroscience.

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"“Free” is still a rare practice in academic book publishing, and the MIT Press, with its strong public service orientation, is a leader in thinking about and experimenting with the commercial feasibility of various approaches to open access."

- Eric von Hippel (T. Wilson (1953) Professor of Technological Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management) in his 2016 book Free Innovation.