MIT Press’s Direct to Open (D2O) continues expanding access to leading scholarship in 2025 %

"At the MIT Press, we believe that everyone deserves access to scholarship. Our dedication to this mission remains strong as we head into the fourth funding cycle for Direct to Open (D2O), our model for open access monographs. Libraries and consortia can commit to support the program through November 30, 2024.

“Direct to Open is a game changer,” said Amy Brand, Director and Publisher at the MIT Press. “We know that open scholarship benefits authors, readers, and the academy at large. This is why we designed and implemented a new solution that would better serve scholars and the research monographs that are vital to our mission.”

D2O empowers authors so that they can reap the benefits of publishing their work open access regardless of their—or their institution’s—ability to pay a Book Processing Charge. This diamond OA approach has special relevance for Humanities and Social Sciences scholars as well as independent researchers around the globe...."