Cognitive science journal Open Mind to be cofunded by Harvard Library and MIT Libraries through 2027 in an effort to advance open access publishing

"The MIT Press is pleased to announce that cognitive science journal Open Mind will be cofunded by Harvard Library and MIT Libraries now through 2027. Open Mind is the first journal to be supported by the Harvard Open Journals Program, announced earlier this year to advance and sustain no-fee open access scholarly publishing.

The funding partnership reflects a common goal amongst all three organizations—the MIT Press, Harvard Library, and MIT Libraries—to champion scholar-led open access publishing that is free from reader- and author-facing charges. 

“Together, we hope to secure the future of Open Mind as an exemplary no-fee open access journal and to demonstrate the power of cooperative funding,” said Colleen Cressman, Librarian for Open Publishing at Harvard Library and manager of the Harvard Open Journals Program.

Open Mind provides a venue for the highest quality, most innovative work in cognitive science, offering free open access publishing, concise and accessible articles, and quick turnaround times for authors. The journal, first launched in 2017, covers a broad array of content areas within cognitive science, using approaches from cognitive psychology, computer science and mathematical psychology, cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, comparative psychology and behavioral anthropology, decision sciences, and theoretical and experimental linguistics...."