{"id":2902,"date":"2025-01-16T20:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T20:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2025-01-16T20:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T20:07:17","slug":"mit-press-to-release-all-2025-scholarly-books-openly-through-its-direct-to-open-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/2025\/01\/16\/mit-press-to-release-all-2025-scholarly-books-openly-through-its-direct-to-open-program\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Press to release all 2025 scholarly books openly through Direct to Open program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our Library has supported MIT Press&#8217;s Direct to Open (D2O) initiative through the collections budget since 2021, via CRKN. D2O is MIT&#8217;s initiative to release all its scholarly books freely and openly online each year. Today the Press has announced that it&#8217;s reached its 2025 funding goal, meaning that 80 new books will be published OA this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about this year&#8217;s D2O, and discover some new books coming in Spring 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/mit-press-direct-to-open-reaches-annual-funding-goal-for-2025-opens-access-to-over-80-new-monographs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read MIT Press&#8217;s announcement here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To browse MIT Press ebooks, which includes their older books back to 1943, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/guides.library.ualberta.ca\/az\/mit-press\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MIT Press Direct<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although MIT Press Direct contains lots of STEM books, there&#8217;s also a separate collection of MIT Press Computing and Engineering ebooks, which we buy and which is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/guides.library.ualberta.ca\/az\/ieee-xplore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IEEE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Library has supported MIT Press&#8217;s Direct to Open (D2O) initiative through the collections budget since 2021, via CRKN. D2O is MIT&#8217;s initiative to release all its scholarly books freely and openly online each year. Today the Press has announced that it&#8217;s reached its 2025 funding goal, meaning that 80 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2909,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions\/2909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}