{"id":39892,"date":"2025-04-14T08:55:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/?p=39892"},"modified":"2025-06-26T16:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T20:02:17","slug":"libraries-funds-help-make-50-scholarly-books-openly-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/libraries-funds-help-make-50-scholarly-books-openly-available\/39892\/","title":{"rendered":"Libraries’ funds help make 50 scholarly books openly available"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since 2022<\/span><\/a>, the MIT Libraries has supported MIT authors in making their scholarly monographs and other books open access (OA) to readers around the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve funded about 50 books written <\/span>by MIT researchers across 20 departments and all five schools on campus. Nearly 70 percent are published by nonprofit university presses. <\/span>We shared the first batch of books<\/span><\/a> made OA with Libraries funds a couple of years ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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 \u201cterrific book about a famous economic disaster\u201d during the California energy crisis in the early 2000s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The works are all freely available to read, download, and share under Creative Commons licenses. A book\u2019s MIT author or editor is listed next to the title.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t