Tag: MIT Press

The MIT Press announces Grant Program for Diverse Voices recipients for 2024

Launched in 2021, the Grant Program for Diverse Voices from the MIT Press provides direct support for new work by authors who bring excluded or chronically underrepresented perspectives to the fields in which the press publishes, which include the sciences, arts, and humanities. Recipients are selected after submitting a book proposal and completing a successful […]

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MIT Press’s Direct to Open opens access to full list of 2024 monographs

Now in its third year of operation, the MIT Press’ Direct to Open (D2O) recently announced that it reached its full funding goal in 2024 and will open access to 79 new monographs and edited book collections this year.  Launched in 2021, D2O is an innovative sustainable framework for open-access monographs that shifts publishing from […]

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Q&A: Phillip Sharp and Amy Brand on the future of open-access publishing

Providing open access to scholarly publications is a long-running issue with new developments on the horizon. Last year, the U.S. federal government’s Office of Science and Technology Policy mandated that starting in 2026 publishers must provide open access to publications stemming from federal funding. That provides more impetus for the open-access movement in academia. Meanwhile, […]

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