The MIT Press Opens Spring 2023 List of Scholarly Monographs via Direct to Open Model with Support from over 240 Libraries Worldwide

To allow for expanded library participation, the D2O commitment window has been extended through June 30, 2023 

January 19, 2023 (Cambridge, MA)—The MIT Press today announced that it will open its spring 2023 list of monographs via the Direct to Open (D2O) model. First launched in 2021, D2O harnesses the collective power of libraries to support open and equitable access to vital, leading scholarship.

So far this year, 240 libraries from around the world have signed on to participate in D2O. Institutions include Duke University Libraries, Rocky Mountain College, KU Leuven, EPFL Switzerland, Johns Hopkins University Libraries, University of Manchester, University of Toronto Libraries, Massey University Library, Southern Cross University and more. To allow for expanded library participation, the D2O commitment window has been extended through June 30, 2023. 

Thanks to these supporting institutions, over 40 scholarly monographs and edited collections from 2023 will now be freely accessible worldwide. These new works join the collection of 80 monographs made freely available during the first year of the D2O model. Titles published via D2O are always accessible on the MIT Press Direct platform.

List of MIT Press 2023 spring monographs and edited collections included in the Direct to Open model: 

• Alerta!: Engineering on Shaky Ground by Elizabeth Reddy
• Algorithmic Rights and Protections for Children edited by Mizuko Ito, Remy Cross, Karthik Dinakar, and Candice Odgers
• Art + DIY Electronics by Garnet Hertz
• Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All by Peter Baldwin
• Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain by Victor Petrov
• Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints: How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts by Tobias Ide
• Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning by Amanda Wasielewski
• Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul by Stephanie K. Kim
• Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence by Alicia Juarrero
• Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi by Robin Steedman
• Cryptographic City: Decoding the Smart Metropolis by Richard Coyne
• Data and Democracy at Work: Advanced Information Technologies, Labor Law, and the New Working Class by Brishen Rogers
• Data Paradoxes: The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare by Klaus Hoeyer
• Distributional Reinforcement Learning by Marc G. Bellemare, Will Dabney, and Mark Rowland
• Evolvability: A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology? edited by Thomas F. Hansen, David Houle, Mihaela Pavličev, and Christophe Pélabon
• Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World by Konstantinos Chatzis
• Global Shifts: Business, Politics, and Deforestation in a Changing World Economy by Philip Schleifer
• Gradient Expectations: Structure, Origins, and Synthesis of Predictive Neural Networks by Keith L. Downing
• Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability by Christoph Becker
• Just in Time: Temporality, Aesthetic Experience, and Cognitive Neuroscience by G. Gabrielle Starr
• Living with Algorithms: Agency and User Culture in Costa Rica by Ignacio Siles
• Managing Meaning in Ukraine: Information, Communication, and Narration since the Euromaidan Revolution by Göran Bolin and Per Ståhlberg
• Media Ruins: Cambodian Postwar Media Reconstruction and the Geopolitics of Technology by Margaret Jack
• Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land by Tamar Novick
• On Linearization: Toward a Restrictive Theory by Guglielmo Cinque
• Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property edited by Dagmar Schäfer, Annapurna Mamidipudi, and Marius Buning
• Parody in the Age of Remix: Mashup Creativity vs. the Takedown by Ragnhild Brøvig
• Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization by Nina Lager Vestberg
• Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games by Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson
• The Phoenix Complex: A Philosophy of Nature by Michael Marder
• Principles of Knowledge Auditing: Foundations for Knowledge Management Implementation by Patrick Lambe
• Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology by Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt
• Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology by Aaron Trammell
• The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future edited by Elizabeth H. Margulis, Psyche Loui, and Deirdre Loughridge
• Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech by Lee McGuigan
• Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River by Cindy McCulligh
• The Space between Look and Read: Designing Complementary Meaning by Susan M. Hagan
• To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media across Nations, Media, and Platforms by Mora Matassi and Pablo J. Boczkowski
• Undue Hate: A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Hostile Polarization in US Politics and Beyond by Daniel F. Stone
• The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production by Brendan Keogh
• War on All Fronts: A Theory of Health Security Justice by Nicholas G. Evans
• Women and Climate Change: Examining Discourses from the Global North by Nicole Detraz

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