Since 2022, the MIT Libraries has supported MIT authors in making their scholarly monographs and other books open access (OA) to readers around the world.
We’ve funded about 50 books written by MIT researchers across 20 departments and all five schools on campus. Nearly 70 percent are published by nonprofit university presses. We shared the first batch of books made OA with Libraries funds a couple of years ago.
Below is a list of the latest OA books, which range from a cognitive science textbook to a story of Armenians in post-genocide Turkey to a “terrific book about a famous economic disaster” during the California energy crisis in the early 2000s.
The works are all freely available to read, download, and share under Creative Commons licenses. A book’s MIT author or editor is listed next to the title.
- Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children’s Literature, Marah Gubar
- Bayesian Models of Cognition, Joshua Tenenbaum
- Contemporary Translation in Transition: Poems, Theories, Conversations, Maria Khotimsky
- Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action, Catherine D’Ignazio
- Failure by Design: The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning, Georg Rilinger
- Foundations of Computer Vision, Antoniao Torralba
- From the Basement to the Dome How MIT’s Unique Culture Created a Thriving Entrepreneurial Community, Jean-Jacques Degroof
- Game After: A Cultural Study of Video Game Afterlife, Raiford Guins
- Life at the Center: Haitians and Corporate Catholicism in Boston, Erica James
- Networks and Practices of Connoisseurship in the Global Eighteenth-Century, Kristel Smentek
- Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture, T.L. Taylor
- Raising the Stakes: E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming, T.L. Taylor
- Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey, Lerna Ekmekcioglu
- Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America, Ben Ross Schneider
- Significant Other: Staging the Other in China, Claire Conceison
- Systemic Service Design, Sheng-Hung Lee
- The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis, Lawrence Vale
- Urban Play Make-Believe, Technology, and Space, Fábio Duarte and Ricardo Álvarez
