{"id":4887,"date":"2025-05-29T16:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/?page_id=4887"},"modified":"2025-06-03T19:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:56:09","slug":"open-infrastructure-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/publishing\/open-infrastructure-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Open infrastructure & initiatives supported by the Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are some of the open scholarship initiatives that the MIT Libraries currently funds or has supported in the past.<\/p>\n

Go to OA publishing support<\/a> to find information for MIT authors on free or discounted open access publishing paid for by the Libraries.<\/p>\n

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African Journals Online<\/a><\/h3>\n
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MIT Libraries supports African Journals Online (AJOL<\/a>), 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Archive-IT<\/a><\/h3>\n
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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<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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arXiv<\/a><\/h3>\n
Through funding from the MIT Libraries, MIT is an institutional supporting member of this repository, which offers open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Authors Alliance<\/a><\/h3>\n
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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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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bioRxiv<\/a><\/h3>\n
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MIT Libraries supports the bioRxiv<\/a> preprint repository for biology and biosciences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Bloomsbury Open Collections<\/a><\/h3>\n
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MIT Libraries supports Bloomsbury’s collaborative funding initiative to make its African Studies and International Development collection of books open access. This collection consists of 20 titles. More information<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Directory of Open Access Books<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries is a supporting member of the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), a community-curated directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books. More information <\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Directory of Open Access Journals<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries is a financially supporting member of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. More information <\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Dryad<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries is an institutional member of Dryad, a non-profit, open data platform that focuses on data publishing and preservation. More information <\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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engRxiv<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries supports Open Engineering, a nonprofit that operates the engRxiv<\/a> preprint repository.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Global Press Archive<\/a><\/h3>\n
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In partnership with the Center for Research Libraries and East View, MIT Libraries is a sponsor of Global Press Archive<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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HathiTrust<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries is a financially supporting member of the HathiTrust, an international community of research libraries committed to the long-term curation of and access to the cultural record. More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Invest in Open Infrastructure<\/a><\/h3>\n
The Libraries is a member of the Sustaining Circle of Invest in Open Infrastructure<\/a>, which supports the adoption, implementation, and expansion of open infrastructure for research.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Knowledge Futures Group<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries is a contributing member of the Knowledge Futures Group<\/a>, a nonprofit that builds open source technology like the publishing platform PubPub<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Knowledge Unlatched<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries supports Knowledge Unlatched, which coordinates a coalition of libraries that share the costs of making books and journals<\/a> open access. More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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KOALA consortium<\/a><\/h3>\n
The Libraries supports making computer science and mathematics journals open access without author fees via the KOALA consortium<\/a>, based in Germany.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Language Science Press<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries’ support contributes to Language Science Press\u2019s ability to offer open access publishing opportunities for books and journals related to linguistics. More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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LA Referencia<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries supports LA Referencia, a network of repositories that provide open access to research in Latin America. More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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The Lens<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries supports the Lens Equitable Access Program, whose aim is to keep the scholarly database the Lens “inclusive, growing, open, and comprehensive.” The Lens aggregates metadata on scholarly works, patents, and biological sequences. More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Libraria<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries supports Libraria, an open access publishing cooperative working to develop and test business models that will allow learned societies to \u201cflip\u201d their journals from a subscription model to an open access model without article processing fees. Libraria is currently focusing on journals in anthropology, archaeology, and neighboring fields. More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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MIT Press Direct to Open<\/a><\/h3>\n
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MIT Libraries contributed $100,000 to the MIT Press initiative Direct to Open (D2O)<\/a>. These funds were used to encourage participation in D2O by smaller and less well-resourced institutions by subsidizing their participation.<\/p>\n

The Libraries has previously funded the MIT Press Strong Ideas series<\/a>, 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<\/a> (Mavhunga, 2018), Resonant Games<\/a> (Klopfer, 2019), Does America need more innovators?<\/a> (Wisnioski, 2019).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Open Access Community Investment Program<\/a><\/h3>\n
The Libraries supports diamond open access journals (which are both free to read and publish in) via Lyrasis OACIP<\/a>, a community-driven framework that enables multiple stakeholders to strategically evaluate and collectively fund open access.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA)<\/a><\/h3>\n
The Libraries is a supporter of OASPA<\/a>, whose members include an international group of scholar-led and professional publishers of books and journals, as well as infrastructure and other services. OASPA promotes best practices and equitable business models in open access publishing.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Open Book Collective<\/a><\/h3>\n
The Libraries supports the Open Book Collective<\/a>, which brings together an international group of OA book publishers, open publishing service providers, and knowledge institutions.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Open Library of the Humanities<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries’ financial support contributes to OLH’s ability to offer open access publishing to authors without payment of publication fees. More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Open Policy Finder<\/a><\/h3>\n
The Libraries supports the Open Policy Finder<\/a> (formerly Sherpa services), a curated database of journal, publisher, and funder policies where authors can check their rights to share their works online.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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OSF Preprints <\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries and other Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation partner institutions are providing financial support for the Center for Open Science\u2019s OSF Preprints<\/a>, an open source platform and infrastructure.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Redalyc\/AmeliCA<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries supports the Redalyc OA journals index and articles platform for works published in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, Portugal, and other countries. More information<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Research Organization Registry <\/a><\/h3>\n
The Libraries supports the Research Organization Registry (ROR)<\/a>, an openly available and community-run database of persistent identifiers for research organizations, akin to ORCIDs for individuals<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Reveal Digital Collections<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries has provided financial support for the following collections from Reveal Digital: Independent Voices, Diversity and Dissent: Civil Society in 20th Century America, and Newspapers from the Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. Through collaborative institutional funding Reveal Digital digitizes and provides open access to primary source materials and publications. More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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SCOAP3 journals<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries’ support helps SCOAP3 (the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) offer open access publishing opportunities for journals related to high-energy physics. More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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SocArXiv<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The MIT Libraries is a supporter<\/a> of SocArxiv,\u00a0the social sciences’ open archive.\u00a0SocArXiv is led by a steering committee of sociologists and research library leaders, including MIT Libraries Director Chris Bourg.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Taylor & Francis Pledge to Open<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The Libraries supports Taylor & Francis\u2019s 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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TRAIL Project<\/a><\/h3>\n
MIT Libraries is a financially supporting member of the TRAIL Project (Technical Report Archive & Image Library), which digitizes and provides open access to U.S. government agency technical reports. More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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