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

peter.suber's bookmarks 2023-08-03

Summary:

"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...."

Link:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/mit-presss-direct-to-open-d2o-achieves-second-year-goal-opens-access-to-eighty-two-new-books-in-2023/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.mit_press oa.up oa.books oa.d2o oa.business_models

Date tagged:

08/03/2023, 15:35

Date published:

08/03/2023, 11:35