MIT Press's Direct to Open (D2O) achieves second year goal, opens access to 82 new books in 2023

(Press-News.org) Thanks to the support of libraries participating in Direct to Open (D2O), the MIT Press will publish its full list (see below) of 2023 scholarly monographs and edited collections open access on the MIT Press Direct platform. 

Launched in 2021, D2O is a sustainable framework that harnesses the collective power of libraries to support open and equitable access to vital, leading scholarship. D2O moves scholarly books from a solely market-based, purchase model, where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model. Instead of purchasing a title once for a single collection, libraries now have the opportunity to fund them one time for the world through participant fees. 

“With the successful conclusion of our second year of Direct to Open, we are thrilled to make the Press’s complete list of 2023 monographs openly available,” said Amy Brand, director and publisher of the MIT Press. “This achievement comes at a pivotal time for open science, research, and publishing and would not be possible without the partnership and collaboration of D2O member libraries and consortia. Together, we are proving open access scholarship is not only achievable, but sustainable and scalable.”

In its second year, 322 libraries, an increase of 33% from the first year, from around the globe committed to support D2O. Expanding D2O’s international footprint, the Press also entered into all-in agreements with Big Ten Academic Alliance and the Konsortium der sächsischen Hochschulbibliotheken, as well as central licensing and invoicing agreements with Council of Australian University Librarians, Center for Research Libraries; Greater Western Library Alliance, MOBIUS, Northeast Research Libraries, Jisc, Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation, SCELC, and Lyrasis.

“When we launched Direct to Open two years ago, we passionately believed that taking action to foster a more equitable, sustainable, and open scholarly communication ecosystem was vital and urgent,” said Amy Harris, senior manager, library relations and sales at the MIT Press. “Success was not guaranteed and has required dedicated, hard work to achieve this year; but we have been truly humbled by the support of all of the participating libraries and our consortia partners.”

In the coming year, the Press will seek to expand library participation in the model. Supporting libraries not only contribute to opening frontlist titles, but also receive exclusive participation benefits including term access to a backlist collection of over 2,400 titles. To learn more about Direct to Open, or to sign-up to become a participating library, visit direct.mit.edu/books/pages/direct-to-open or contact the MIT Press library partnerships and sales team.

 

List of MIT Press 2023 monographs and edited collections included in the Direct to Open model:

 

¡Alerta!: Engineering on Shaky Ground by Elizabeth Reddy Academic Star Wars: Excellence Initiatives in Global Perspective edited by Maria Yudkevich, Philip G. Altbach, and Jamil Salmi After Eating: Metabolizing the Arts by Lindsay Kelley Algorithmic Rights and Protections for Children edited by Mizuko Ito, Remy Cross, Karthik Dinakar, and Candice Odgers Art + DIY Electronics by Garnet Hertz Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All by Peter Baldwin Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain by Victor Petrov The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function by Sten Grillner Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints: How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts by Tobias Ide Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning by Amanda Wasielewski Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul by Stephanie K. Kim Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence by Alicia Juarrero Cracking the Bro Code by Coleen Carrigan Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi by Robin Steedman Cryptographic City: Decoding the Smart Metropolis by Richard Coyne Dare to Invent the Future: Knowledge in the Service of and through Problem-Solving by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga Data and Democracy at Work: Advanced Information Technologies, Labor Law, and the New Working Class by Brishen Rogers Data Paradoxes: The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare by Klaus Hoeyer Demystifying the Academic Research Enterprise: Becoming a Successful Scholar in a Complex and Competitive Environment by Kelvin K. Droegemeier Design Aesthetics: Theoretical Basics and Studies in Implication by Mads Nygaard Folkmann Design, Empathy, Interpretation: Toward Interpretive Design Research by Ilpo Koskinen Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images by Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton Distributional Reinforcement Learning by Marc G. Bellemare, Will Dabney, and Mark Rowland Evolution "On Purpose": Teleonomy in Living Systems edited by Peter A. Corning, Stuart A. Kauffman, Denis Noble, James A. Shapiro, Richard I. Vane-Wright, and Addy Pross Evolvability: A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology? edited by Thomas F. Hansen, David Houle, Mihaela Pavličev, and Christophe Pélabon Exploring and Exploiting Genetic Risk for Psychiatric Disorders edited by Joshua A. Gordon and Elisabeth B. Binder Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England by Elizabeth Carpenter-Song Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World by Konstantinos Chatzis From ASCII Art to Comic Sans: Typography and Popular Culture in the Digital Age by Karin Wagner From Geometry to Behavior: An Introduction to Spatial Cognition by Hanspeter A. Mallot Global Shifts: Business, Politics, and Deforestation in a Changing World Economy by Philip Schleifer Gradient Expectations: Structure, Origins, and Synthesis of Predictive Neural Networks by Keith L. Downing The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization by Jonathan Silver Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability by Christoph Becker Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain by Sarah E. Stoller Just in Time: Temporality, Aesthetic Experience, and Cognitive Neuroscience by G. Gabrielle Starr Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age by Meryl Alper Living with Algorithms: Agency and User Culture in Costa Rica by Ignacio Siles Mainstreaming and Game Journalism by David B. Nieborg and Maxwell Foxman Making Meaning with Machines: Somatic Strategies, Choreographic Technologies, and Notational Abstractions through a Laban/Bartenieff Lens by Amy LaViers and Catherine Maguire Managing Meaning in Ukraine: Information, Communication, and Narration since the Euromaidan Revolution by Göran Bolin and Per Ståhlberg May We Make the World?: Gene Drives, Malaria, and the Future of Nature by Laurie Zoloth Media Ruins: Cambodian Postwar Media Reconstruction and the Geopolitics of Technology by Margaret Jack Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land by Tamar Novick More Than a Health Crisis: Securitization and the US Response to the 2013–⁠2016 Ebola Outbreak by Jessica Kirk Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean by Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse No Heavenly Bodies: A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure by Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren On Linearization: Toward a Restrictive Theory by Guglielmo Cinque On the Brink of Utopia: Reinventing Innovation to Solve the World's Largest Problems by Thomas Ramge and Rafael Laguna de la Vera Open Minded: Searching for Truth about the Unconscious Mind by Ben R. Newell and David R. Shanks Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property edited by Dagmar Schäfer, Annapurna Mamidipudi, and Marius Buning Parody in the Age of Remix: Mashup Creativity vs. the Takedown by Ragnhild Brøvig The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI by Joanna Zylinska Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond by David J. Gunkel The Phoenix Complex: A Philosophy of Nature by Michael Marder Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization by Nina Lager Vestberg Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy by Diana Kamin A Place for Science and Technology Studies: Observation, Intervention, and Collaboration by Jane Calvert Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games by Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson Principles of Knowledge Auditing: Foundations for Knowledge Management Implementation by Patrick Lambe Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology by Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt Properties of Life: Toward a Theory of Organismic Biology by Bernd Rosslenbroich Rational Accidents: Reckoning with Catastrophic Technologies by John Downer Real Life in Real Time: Live Streaming Culture edited by Johanna Brewer, Bo Ruberg, Amanda L. L. Cullen, and Christopher J. Persaud Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability by Manisha Anantharaman Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology by Aaron Trammell The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future edited by Elizabeth H. Margulis, Psyche Loui, and Deirdre Loughridge Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech by Lee McGuigan The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities by Kathrin Maurer Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River by Cindy McCulligh The Space between Look and Read: Designing Complementary Meaning by Susan M. Hagan The Stuff Games Are Made Of by Pippin Barr Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century by Alessandro Ludovico To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media across Nations, Media, and Platforms by Mora Matassi and Pablo J. Boczkowski Undue Hate: A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Hostile Polarization in US Politics and Beyond by Daniel F. Stone The Unequal Effects of Globalization by Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg with Greg Larson The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production by Brendan Keogh A Woman's Right to Know: Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn War on All Fronts: A Theory of Health Security Justice by Nicholas G. Evans What Makes Us Social? by Chris Frith and Uta Frith Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion by George Santayana, David E. Spiech, Martin A. Coleman, and Faedra Lazar Weiss Women and Climate Change: Examining Discourses from the Global North by Nicole Detraz END