Open infrastructure & initiatives supported by the Libraries
These are some of the open scholarship initiatives that the MIT Libraries currently funds or has supported in the past.
Go to OA publishing support to find information for MIT authors on free or discounted open access publishing paid for by the Libraries.
African Journals Online
MIT Libraries supports African Journals Online (AJOL), a non-profit index of African-published journals. The platform is home to 700 journals, two thirds of which are open access, from 39 African countries.
Archive-IT
MIT Libraries licenses access to the Archive-IT web archiving service to manage the archiving and access to web sites from the Institute and its affiliates.
arXiv
Authors Alliance
MIT Libraries is a member of the Authors Alliance Partner Program. Authors Alliance creates resources to help authors understand their rights and promote policies that make knowledge and culture available and discoverable. More information
bioRxiv
MIT Libraries supports the bioRxiv preprint repository for biology and biosciences.
Directory of Open Access Books
Directory of Open Access Journals
Dryad
engRxiv
Global Press Archive
In partnership with the Center for Research Libraries and East View, MIT Libraries is a sponsor of Global Press Archive, which will provide open access for hundreds of global newspapers as searchable online archives, covering a diverse range of languages and countries. The collections are currently under development and are not yet available.
HathiTrust
Invest in Open Infrastructure
Knowledge Futures Group
LA Referencia
The Lens
Libraria
Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA)
Open Policy Finder
OSF Preprints
Public Knowledge Project
Redalyc/AmeliCA
Research Organization Registry
Reveal Digital Collections
SocArXiv
The MIT Libraries is a supporter of SocArxiv, the social sciences’ open archive. SocArXiv is led by a steering committee of sociologists and research library leaders, including MIT Libraries Director Chris Bourg.
TRAIL Project