MIT Libraries contributed $100,000 to the MIT Press initiative Direct to Open (D2O). These funds were used to encourage participation in D2O by smaller and less well-resourced institutions by subsidizing their participation.

The Libraries has previously funded the MIT Press Strong Ideas series, as well as funding an additional 5-10 scholarly OA monographs each year. A sample of titles made open through this funding include: The Mobile Workshop (Mavhunga, 2018), Resonant Games (Klopfer, 2019), Does America need more innovators? (Wisnioski, 2019).

The Libraries supports diamond open access journals (which are both free to read and publish in) via Lyrasis OACIP, a community-driven framework that enables multiple stakeholders to strategically evaluate and collectively fund open access.

The Libraries supports the Open Book Collective, which brings together an international group of OA book publishers, open publishing service providers, and knowledge institutions.

The Libraries supports the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science from MIT Press, an OA resource that updates the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. OECS covers AI & cognitive modeling, cognition, emotion, language, neuroscience, perception and more.

The Libraries funds the Open Journal Collective, an international collective of scholars, libraries, university presses, and non-profit academic publishers that support open access, community-led academic journals with no author-facing fees.

MIT Libraries’ financial support contributes to OLH’s ability to offer open access publishing to authors without payment of publication fees. More information

MIT Libraries’ support helps SCOAP3 (the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) offer open access publishing opportunities for journals and books related to high-energy physics. More information

The Libraries supports Taylor & Francis’s OA book publishing program, a collaborative funding pilot that aims to make 70 books open access across seven collections, including green renewable energy, climate change, women’s health, race and racism. More information.

MIT Libraries signed a three-year agreement (through December 2028) with AIP Publishing covering article processing charges for all articles with MIT corresponding authors. Authors must be currently affiliated with MIT to be eligible.

Workflow for corresponding authors in journals from AIP Publishing: When you submit an article, choose MIT as the institution name; then choose the option that says, “Open Access as part of an Institutional agreement.” More information on the AIP site

The MIT Libraries has an open access agreement with ACM (through December 2028) that allows MIT authors to make ACM articles freely available at no cost to them. Authors must be currently affiliated with MIT to be eligible.

Under the agreement, ACM will also automatically deposit the manuscripts of all MIT co-authored articles into MIT’s institutional repository, DSpace. And the agreement includes rights for computational (text or data mining) access to the ACM Digital Library. More information on the ACM site

MIT Libraries’ agreement (through December 2027) with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press gives MIT corresponding authors free open access in these journals: Genes & Development, Genome Research, Learning & Memory, RNA. Authors can choose a CC-BY or CC-BY-NC license. The publisher will offer corresponding authors the OA option.

MIT Libraries’ subscription to ECS Plus provides current MIT authors with free, unlimited credits to publish articles open access.

To take advantage of this, choose Open Access in the submission process:

If authors wish to have their paper published OA if accepted, they should request Open Access Publication, select the desired CC license (ECS offers CC-BY and CC-BY-NC-ND), and check the box for affiliation with an ECS Plus subscriber institution. If the paper is accepted, there will be no invoice; the system will confirm the affiliation and waive the article processing charge.

More information on publishing OA with ECS Plus (PDF from ECS)

MIT Libraries support of the journal eLife provides current MIT authors with free, unlimited publishing (through April 2027).

To take advantage of this, enter MIT as your institution on the submission page. Once there appears a green checkmark next to “Edit Funder/Institution,” you will see a note on the publication fee page that the fee is covered by a deal. If you miss this step, staff should catch it during eLife’s checks.

Contact the eLife editorial team with questions.

More information on publishing and peer review with eLife

MIT Libraries has open-access publishing agreements with the nonprofit publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) (through December 2026) that allow MIT authors to publish in all PLOS titles with no publishing fees. Authors must be currently affiliated with MIT to be eligible.

Author instructions for PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, Sustainability and Transformation (from PLOS)
Author instructions for all other PLOS journals (from PLOS)

MIT Libraries’ agreement (through December 2027) includes full access to RSC’s journals and OA publishing with no fees for authors. Authors must be currently affiliated with MIT to be eligible. Author guide flyer from RSC (pdf)

MIT Libraries signed a three-year agreement (through December 2026) that allows MIT corresponding authors publishing in hybrid Sage journals to make their articles open access at no cost to them.

Authors must be currently affiliated with MIT to be eligible. Only hybrid OA journals are part of the agreement; those that charge subscription fees as well as fees to publish an article OA.

More information: PDF from Sage with workflow + Sage website

MIT Libraries has a one-year agreement (to December 2026) that allows MIT corresponding authors publishing in Taylor & Francis fully OA or hybrid journals to make articles open access at no cost to them. Authors must be currently affiliated with MIT to be eligible. The agreement includes 55 OA articles for 2026.

MIT Libraries has a one-year agreement (to December 2026) that allows MIT corresponding authors publishing in Wiley fully OA or hybrid journals to make articles open access at no cost to them. Authors must be currently affiliated with MIT to be eligible.

MIT Libraries subscribe to “ACS All Publications,” which means ACS members who are currently affiliated with MIT get a $250-$750 discount on ACS “AuthorChoice.” AuthorChoice makes the final published version of articles open access immediately or after 12 months. More information

MIT Libraries’ membership provides current MIT authors with a 15% discount on article processing fees for BMC journals and SpringerOpen journals. More information

MIT Libraries’ membership provides currently affiliated MIT authors with a 15% discount on article processing fees for Frontiers journals.

MIT Libraries is an institutional member of MDPI. Our membership provides current MIT authors with a 10% discount on article processing charges for MDPI journals, and discounts on book publishing charges. MDPI publishes open access journals and books in the sciences.

MIT Libraries’ site license provides current MIT authors with a discount on the optional immediate open access processing fees. More information on the PNAS site

MIT Libraries’ membership supports Royal Society’s Subscribe to Open program, which in 2026 makes eight subscription journals fully OA with no article processing charges for authors. APCs will still be charged for publishing in Open Science and Open Biology, and current MIT authors get a 25% discount.