MIT Press Classics Available Soon at Archive.org | Internet Archive Blogs

"For more than eighty years, MIT Press has been publishing acclaimed titles in science, technology, art and architecture.  Now, thanks to a new partnership between the Internet Archive and MIT Press, readers will be able to borrow these classics online for the first time. With generous support from Arcadia, this partnership represents an important advance in providing free, long-term public access to knowledge.

'These books represent some of the finest scholarship ever produced, but right now they are very hard to find,' said Brewster Kahle, founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive. 'Together with MIT Press, we will enable the patrons of every library that owns one of these books to borrow it online–one copy at a time.'

This joint initiative is a crucial early step in Internet Archive’s ambitious plans to digitize, preserve and provide public access to four million books, by partnering widely with university presses and other publishers, authors, and libraries.  The Internet Archive is one of eight groups named semi-finalists in 100&Change, a global competition for a single $100 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The competition seeks bold solutions to critical problems of our time."